New British Airways amenity kits rolling out in Business Class

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• Rob says:

  28 Mar28 March 07:03

  Collinson always ran that.

• The Paw 🐾 says:

  28 Mar28 March 07:07

  If it’s a choice between a pen and the pulse point spray, I would much rather have the pen.

  Haven’t flown long-haul Club in a couple of years. Is the pulse point spray still in the kit? And if so, why? Why???

  • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

    28 Mar28 March 07:29

    Why? Because it’s either cheap to buy or they get it for free and that company hopes people will go out and buy it generating revenue for it.

    The AA amenity kits have a slip of paper inside which basically says “if you want to buy any of these items go here …”

• strickers says:

  28 Mar28 March 07:32

  We’ve had kettles, now it’s time to rate pens, the one in the amenity kit is truly a piece of garbage. Give me an Intercontinental pen, now that’s half decent, there’s a few of those in my drawer. As for a Holiday Inn pen, perfectly serviceable, there’s dozens, if not hundreds of them in use at a certain NHS hospital in Lincolnshire.

  • Willmo says:

    28 Mar28 March 08:45

    Go to the South Place hotel in the city, by far and large the best ‘hotel’ pen I have come across.

    They are so big and sturdy – I prefer them to any pen I could buy in a shop.

  • Numpty says:

    28 Mar28 March 10:10

    The BA First Class pen is nice, i have a bunch of them still in the clear wrapper! It’s like a better version of the pen from The Conrad. The IC pens are nice too. Few different versions of the HIX cheap pens. I have them all in a mug on my desk in the office.

  • Dubious says:

    28 Mar28 March 11:00

    Since this article mentions SQ, let me add that the SQ pens went downhill somewhere between 5-10 years ago. I think they either went with lowest cost or lowest weight or some ratio of the two. Unfortunately they break really easily. I’ve had so many snap in half over the years (either in my pocket or in my bag).

  • Peter K says:

    28 Mar28 March 12:35

    The non-writing end of Holiday Inn pens are (or were) the perfect size for doing the grouting in my bathroom!

    • Erico1875 says:

      28 Mar28 March 19:25

      You can use the toothpaste to whiten old grouting too 😁

• BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

  28 Mar28 March 07:33

  Best amenity kit I ever had is a Tumi from Delta.

  Nice size and feels good to handle and I use of for most of my chargers and cables

  The latest AA one is basically a small, square cardboard box. When I first saw it I thought is was a box of chocolates!

  • Mikeact says:

    28 Mar28 March 08:48

    I agree…my cables etc., also.

• Stephen says:

  28 Mar28 March 07:41

  Maybe they used Avios to buy it…..or part Avios/part cash? 🤷‍♂️

• jj says:

  28 Mar28 March 08:04

  Absurd symbolism.

  How will a bamboo toothbrush make a faux-leather plastic bag, a steel zip, and plastic containers of unwanted gels sustainable? How will a bamboo toothbrush make long haul business class flying sustainable?

  Call me old-fashioned, but I would far prefer a pen and a small notebook in the kit to random toiletries.

  • ChrisBCN says:

    28 Mar28 March 08:22

    Absurd comment. Because they can’t make everything sustainable they shouldn’t make anything sustainable?

    • jj says:

      28 Mar28 March 08:47

      @ChrisBCN, the problem is that performative guestures mask substantive harm by creating a veneer of virtue.

      No-one should kid themselves that there is anything sustainable about flying long haul in business class. When it comes to climate change and plastic pollution, the people reading this web site – me included – are the problem. And it won’t be fixed by a bamboo toothbrush.

      • Andy K says:

        28 Mar28 March 08:57

        Agree. (But I don’t think you’re supposed to mention anything about climate change or sustainability here (or FT)……brace yourself!)

      • Chrisasaurus says:

        28 Mar28 March 09:19

        No of course but that doesn’t make a case for plastic toothbrushes, does it?

      • executiveclubber says:

        28 Mar28 March 09:41

        Aviation is responsible for approximately 2.5% of all human-produced CO2 emissions

    • Geoff says:

      28 Mar28 March 11:15

      The things that people get hot and bothered about 😂

  • Anouj says:

    28 Mar28 March 09:21

    just what i was thinking. The bamboo trend is just greenwashing. It takes insane quantities of water, chemicals and glues to form bamboo into usable shapes. I’d much rather they give wooden toothbrushes and only hand out what people request.

    • Andy K says:

      28 Mar28 March 09:34

      Agree with this. Singapore Airlines’ on-demand amenities concept should be more widespread.

• Susann says:

  28 Mar28 March 08:22

  BA amenity kit is horrible – here I said it sorry if I sound spoiled but what a waste. – I am usually like a little giddy girl exploring amenity kits of airlines as I love creams. – Singapore’s Penhalogens Luna kits is great! – BA I stopped bothering to take or use it. Nobody wants them back home and turn up their nose on White Company roll on “relax” stick – thought was just me who needs to sneeze from it. Come on how many odd shaped pouches do you need and for what – too big/ small for tights or make up and only got that many cables and tablets storage needs.- Bring back an actual and decent toiletry brand like Elemis not those smelly allergy inducing afterthoughts from White Company – who should stick to home stuff. – I second the other comment – BA shoe bags were the most useful and sustainable ones. Still using mine from back then.

• AndrewT says:

  28 Mar28 March 08:41

  If this results in BA Holidays payments not being taken by or counting as British Airways I can see a lot of Amex cardholders being unhappy.

  • Rob says:

    28 Mar28 March 09:14

    Good point. Wouldn’t be difficult to change the Amex coding to recognise BA Holidays payments though.

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