British Airways adds three new short haul routes

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• Barrel for Scraping says:

  10 Jul10 July 05:06

  There’s also an app called ‘Loungebird’ that provides the same information and also allows you to save the lounge activity as a widget to your home screen which is useful for frequent travellers. Loungebird also allows you to see the current occupation levels of the Concorde Room which the website does not

• RichK says:

  10 Jul10 July 05:47

  You should also check out the Loungebird app available in the Apple App Store.

• daveinitalia says:

  10 Jul10 July 06:15

  Loungebird provides this info in a convenient app and also covers the Concorde Room as well as showing historical information so you can work out which times are usually busiest

  • cranzle says:

    10 Jul10 July 06:39

    Thanks for that information.

    Obviously BA’s management can’t allocate the budget for this to be included in their app. But I’m sure we’re all delighted with sequel after sequel of their all star, big budget safety videos.

    • daveinitalia says:

      10 Jul10 July 06:42

      Not having to watch those videos every week is the only good thing about them removing the screens from the shorthaul fleet

    • Rhys says:

      10 Jul10 July 09:05

      There is supposed to be a long-delayed new app coming….would be sensible to include this.

      • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

        10 Jul10 July 09:38

        Is that why they didn’t go to the party? 🤣🤣🤣

        (BTW reply option not visible on your comment about BA not talking to you)

    • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

      10 Jul10 July 09:46

      But at least they’ve made the data available for others to use.

      The app is clunky enough as it is at the moment without adding extras onto it.

      And that’s the problem with the website and App it’s backbone isn’t a single system but multiple ones and they don’t always play well together.

      If they are going to add data to the app then I think most people would prefer earlier notifications of gates

• TimM says:

  10 Jul10 July 06:27

  Since when was Morocco in Europe?

  • kevin86 says:

    10 Jul10 July 07:19

    😂

  • Andy says:

    10 Jul10 July 07:32

    This is how journalism works these days. Instead of writing quality material, you write something so deliberately idiotic that people feel compelled to engage with it.

    • Ian says:

      10 Jul10 July 07:57

      Is this journalism?

      • John33 says:

        10 Jul10 July 08:14

        Yes, client journalism. It’s what this site usually is. Although in fairness to them, this time they just copied the information from Sean Moulton. I’m not sure this makes it any better though.

        Either way, embarrassing.

        • Rhys says:

          10 Jul10 July 09:10

          John you’ll be pleased to know our coverage of BA is so favourable that they won’t even talk to us any more 🙂

        • Rob says:

          10 Jul10 July 10:09

          What BA has paid us this year literally will not pay for the dinner I had on Monday night with a few friends 🙂

          In HfP world, Europe = short-haul and we tend to use the two words interchangeably. We don’t necessarily mean the country involved is in Europe 🙂

          For the same reason we tend to use short-haul = Europe, even though arguably Larnaca etc is not really short-haul albeit it is flown on an aircraft typically used for short-haul routes.

        • Richie says:

          10 Jul10 July 09:37

          @John33 God save the points might be the site you were thinking of.

  • PeterK says:

    10 Jul10 July 08:15

    Whilst not in Europe, IATA has always included the North African countries of Morocco, Algeria & Tunisia in their European Traffic Conference area given its close proximity to Europe and in the main airlines offering only a short haul product from Europe.

    • NorthernLass says:

      10 Jul10 July 13:33

      I’m guessing as that Canaries/Azores have longer flights from the U.K. than some North African airports so it makes sense from that perspective!

  • BA Flyer IHG Stayer says:

    10 Jul10 July 09:33

    Interesting fact Morocco is the only African country to ever take part in the Eurovision Song Contest.

    • Alex Sm says:

      11 Jul11 July 16:47

      and another interesting fact that next year’s Eurovision will be in Austria, maybe in Graz? and Madrid is one of the big-5, so it feels like some Eurovision conspiracy behind this announcement! 🎶

  • ZW says:

    10 Jul10 July 09:48

    Much better to use “BA adds three short haul routes” than European routes. Morocco is not in Europe, and the title is just blatant cultural insensitivity.

    • Mike says:

      10 Jul10 July 17:16

      ZW, hmm, that sounds like a post by BJ. Have you changed your pseudonym?

      • ZW says:

        10 Jul10 July 17:28

        Nope. 100% authentic myself. (Hair toss emoji)

• Mark says:

  10 Jul10 July 06:44

  Good to see T5B lounges remain relatively quiet, chalk and cheese in terms of experience vs the the other galleries lounges.

• tony says:

  10 Jul10 July 06:59

  That service is fine – except when it’s not. Went through LHR last month, said South lounge was 0/5. Walked down there, was bursting at the seams, the few tables that were clear were strewn with used plates & glasses as the staff couldn’t cope with the abnormal influx of passengers who thought the lounge was empty…..

  • Barrel for Scraping says:

    10 Jul10 July 07:19

    The Loungebird app tells you when the API is down, rather than just showing the lounge as empty

• Bertie says:

  10 Jul10 July 07:14

  Oh dear, shoddy tabloid writing regarding Morocco and geography.

• 1ATL says:

  10 Jul10 July 07:19

  Rabat is operating on Wednesdays and Sundays (Not Wednesdays Saturdays as per article)

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