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After a couple of years as BAEC Gold, I have dropped to Silver and become accustomed to seeing 1A/K blocked from booking on my journeys. However, I booked a First return LHR-BOS the other day and was surprised to see that I had been allocated 1A in each direction! In all honesty, aside from preferring a window seat when I’m travelling solo, I don’t really care where I sit but has anyone else experienced this?
@drmcross – yes, it’s unusual as 1A is usually blocked in F but I hate to tell you that while 1A is a great seat on short haul, on long haul it’s the worst seat in the house as it’s the one nearest the bog and the galley which on BA is uniquely noisy not only for incessant clattering but because they use the F galley as a staff common room for flight and cabin crew throughout the flight. 1K is further from the bog but still a most undesirable seat.
Well I can only assume that BA have changed their seating policy to now block the seats furthest away from the toilets for their gold customers! Very considerate BA.
Slightly OT but 1A on AA long haul (when in F) is fantastic; toilets are further away (right by the pilots), and more loos for F pax. Plus, as AA flight attendants are usually so old, they don’t make much noise chatting and are usually asleep in the jump seats near the galley 😂
the galley which on BA is uniquely noisy not only for incessant clattering but because they use the F galley as a staff common room for flight and cabin crew throughout the flight.
Am I excessively conservative to find this unacceptable? I appreciate crew are humans like the rest of us and are entitled to breaks during the work, as well as exchanging some banter with their colleagues, but the peace of F passengers should be sacrosanct. If they gather anywhere, it should be the galley behind Economy where a constant cavalcade of passengers using the loos is likely to disturb passengers seated in the last few row, with or without hearing the crew congregating in the galley.
In general I find it disturbing overhearing personal conversations of staff anywhere that I’m a customer. I recently used a restaurant car on a train while in Europe and found that it functioned as the staff social room with the same individuals supposed to be cooking and waiting on my table sitting down with colleagues at adjacent tables for a natter, often to complain about their employer and personal lives.
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