CalAir From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2005, 298 posts, RR: 1 Posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 2330 times:
Hi there, this is my first post on Airliners.net, so a big hi to everyone. I just booked my holidays to Cyprus in July and got an amazing deal with BA via ebookers for £244 rtn, which was compared with over £300 for a charter flight! Anyway, I digress, what I want to know is, whats the service like on BA? Ive flown with them on the shuttle but never on a 767 which the web says the flight will be on.LHR-LCA. Have they been fitted with leather seats or are they still fabric? Any IFE?And do they serve a hot meal or the "all day deli"? Been told all drinks are free,which for someone used to flying Monarch is quite a treat! Any info would be greatly appreciated.
PS. Anyone know how to get an upgrade to Club.....free?lol. Ive heard it can be done if Y is overbooked, and seeing as im going during the school summer hols, i'd say the flight may well be full!
British Caledonian...we never forget, you have a choice
JGPH1A From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 1, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 21 hours ago) and read 2316 times:
Depends. Is LCA longhaul or shorthaul that week
(It does change sometimes - when its a 757/767, its shorthaul, if its 777 its longhaul, it depends on how unsafe BA feel their routes to KWI are, whether or not LCA is a shorthaul destination or a security-related crew stopover on their Gulf flights.)
Whatever it is, booze will be free. That's the important thing.
Speedbird2155 From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2005, 847 posts, RR: 5 Reply 2, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 16 hours ago) and read 2286 times:
Quoting JGPH1A (Reply 1): It does change sometimes - when its a 757/767, its shorthaul, if its 777 its longhaul, it depends on how unsafe BA feel their routes to KWI are, whether or not LCA is a shorthaul destination or a security-related crew stopover on their Gulf flights
Since I've been with BA, I've never known us to use LCA as a stop over for our KWI or other Gulf routes for security reasons.
CalAir, welcome. It will be a Euro-configured 767, which I belief are leather seats, but I work primarily with long-haul or the A320 series, I'm not 100% sure. The meal will most likely be the all-day deli, but I do believe that some flights have a breakfast option which is a hot sandwich with the all-day deli. The overall service will be the same as is offered on all our European flights, there are no PTV on these flights. As for an upgrade, it will be unlikely unless it is severely oversold in the back and even then, it will be BA executive cardholders who will get first.
Orion737 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 6, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 2152 times:
Gosh, I would have thought BA would have offered a hot lunch/dinner on a flight as far as Larnaca. The all day deli is fine for flights to Frankfurt and the like but Larnaca!
Edina From United Kingdom, joined Jul 2003, 714 posts, RR: 10 Reply 7, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 9 hours ago) and read 2148 times:
Quoting Speedbird2155 (Reply 2): CalAir, welcome. It will be a Euro-configured 767, which I belief are leather seats, but I work primarily with long-haul or the A320 series, I'm not 100% sure. The meal will most likely be the all-day deli, but I do believe that some flights have a breakfast option which is a hot sandwich with the all-day deli. The overall service will be the same as is offered on all our European flights, there are no PTV on these flights. As for an upgrade, it will be unlikely unless it is severely oversold in the back and even then, it will be BA executive cardholders who will get first.
Quoting Cornish (Reply 4): Euro configured 767s have leather seats. No IFE I'm afraid.
Food will be all day Deli, which means predominantly a sort of pizza slice thingy.
School holidays will mean full planes to LCA - doubt there will be room for an upgrade, but you never know if you are flying alone...
* Leather seats i.e. the convertible business/economy seats are only in the forward and mid cabins....the back cabin which is always in econmomy configuration has fabric seats.
* Flights to LCA (as well as DME, ATH, SOF, TIP, OTP, IST, LED & KBP) offer a full meal service.....bar round, hot meal (1 choice) followed by a full bar round (not just a few bottles of wine on top of the meal cart) and tea/coffee x 2, with tax free sales offered afterwards.
* LCA always has mainscreen IFE when operated by 767 or 320.......same as long haul economy on 767.
* Upgrades very unlikely, as due to the convertible seats, the configuration can be finely tailored to the actual load.
Worked on - Caravelle Mercure A300 A320 F27 SD3-60 BAe146 747-100/200/400 DC10-30 767 777 737-400 757 A319 A321
JGPH1A From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 10, posted (8 years 1 month 3 weeks 1 day 5 hours ago) and read 2066 times:
Quoting Speedbird2155 (Reply 2): Since I've been with BA, I've never known us to use LCA as a stop over for our KWI or other Gulf routes for security reasons
It may have been a while back, I admit - but I distinctly remember LCA switching from shorthaul to longhaul and then back again, because of security fears somewhere (I forget where) - we had to make a table update in RTZ to switch the flight over (flight type being essential to certain res functions).
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