“The new XLR could be used in our network. We look at it. But in my view it is a niche product ,” Spohr told investors at Lufthansa’s capital markets day in Frankfurt. He pointed out that it was not comfortable to spend more than four hours on a flight in a narrow-bodied aircraft , adding: “It will...
Jump to postWow, what a flashback! My first trip to the US was back in 1996 on TW885. I clearly remember T5 arrivals, where you exit the plane and go along the corridor that leads to CBP with windows facing the beautiful 747 parked at the gate. We then connected to a flight to STL, departing from T6 - the histo...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtJx_pZjvzc
This is not only about LON-TLV market which is currently well served by BA, LY, EZY and Wizz. BA has two daily widebody flights in the winter and most of them are filled with connecting pax. In fact, frequently TLV-LON with BA is more expensive than TLV-NYC with BA. I wander if VS wants to tap into ...
Jump to postAs their current first class is very similar to a very good business class, upgrading their business would make it too similar, which could be the reason they are dropping first as they probably couldn't make a large first suite work economically. This is not true. While BA's F is inferior to other...
Jump to postHaving flown many times in CW, I do agree while it is not the best product out there but it is still adequate. Window seats offer a great deal of privacy and sleeping comfort is superior to most of the seats, even the best-in-class. What drives me crazy is that people keep saying that BA Club is 2-4...
Jump to postI would love to see DL's A350 in TLV but guess they have other missions for the 350s. The completion on NYC-TLV route is heating up with UA Polaris and LY new 787s, so the new Delta One suites could help. Does DL plan to fit the suites on A333s?
Jump to postThe curfew story doesn't add up: only the take offs in TLV are affected, while many arrivals are scheduled during the night. And even if UA90 departed at 4:00am, they would arrive around 22:00PM, which is not a curfew time. I appreciate UA effort to get the flights out during bad weather, but I also...
Jump to postI fully agree - for some reason BA CW is constantly bashed on this site, but I don't find competition any better. Having just travelled the state of the art new UA Polaris seat that everyone raves about, I didn't find it any better than BA CW. Yes, you get the direct aisle access, but other than tha...
Jump to postToo bad they're thinking about quitting TLV. They offered a great option to Iceland, even though I found their TATL rates to be typically uncompetitive with the European legacies (AF/KL, BA/IB, LH/LX/OS/SB). The cheapest fares could be indeed very low, but grabbing those was virtually impossible
Jump to postI'm just not sure it will work ... On one hand, business community has been begging for TLV-SFO nonstop and no surprise UA flights go out full, particularly in the front. Many times tried to book this flight and it was either ridiculously expensive or showed no availability at all. On the other hand...
Jump to postAnyways, my take, BA needs to go all aisle access, the food from what I have seen in trip reports with the new menus looks good. But with a couple of exceptions, it's the seats that kill BA for those that care. I'm not quite sure why people of this forum are bashing BA CW product so much. It was re...
Jump to postMay I raise a couple of points to all this. Firstly, how about using the services of a decent travel agent next time you book who provides a 24/7 client care service and has access to a GDS for booking & rebooking flights/hotels etc. A call to them in times of crisis would have taken a lot of t...
Jump to post>>Flight BA279 from LHR to SJC is scheduled to depart at 1250, but on 10 December left very late at 1926. So, there was actually plenty of time to get you boarded. The flight arrived at 2214, which is no doubt really annoying as you should have got to SJC (athough very late that day) BA279 indeed to...
Jump to postI understand the difficulties of running operations in these conditions. I'm not complaining about the weather, this is really about the service BA provided during this difficult day A few comments from my Sunday experience: (1) BA call center was DOWN. It's not that you could get into a queue, wait...
Jump to postLHR was open throughout Sunday, but the whole place got gridlocked pretty quickly as deicing was slow and many cancelled flights did't leave the gates, so incoming flights couldn't get in, blocking taxiways and not letting other flights to depart. I think this mostly happened around T5, as long haul...
Jump to postHello I had the “pleasure” of traveling with BA via LHR through the recent snow and weather-related IROPs. The whole experience was totally miserable, but it seems that BA operations were even worse than one could expect from a major carrier with decent reputation. I was traveling in CW from TLV to ...
Jump to postSounds like really miserable experience. Did you consider writing LH? While their business class product to TLV is what it is and they probably won't do much about it, your experience with inop APU on the ground in MIA and the lavatory access issue on the return TLV leg definitely demand apology and...
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