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BA is now offering the chance to pick your premium cabin meal 30 days before your flight. On the BA web site if you look up your booking in “Manage My Booking” and scroll right to the very bottom you see the Service requests menu above. If the Order your in-flight meal link is available…
BA announced today that it is increasing the cost of short US based flights using Avios from 2 Feb 2016. The current Economy award goes from 4,500 to 7,500 Avios -plus about $6 in taxes. The same trip in Business Class increases to 15,000 Avios and in First Class to 30,000. These short haul awards…
Lots of news from British Airways this week. A new(-ish) route, a change to Tier Points earnings, and a partner starts some new routes, good for Avios redemptions. Oh, and some good news when using the American Airlines web site too.
British Airways Executive Club suffered a serious devaluation earlier in 2015. I have rehearsed the highlights of the scheme in this presentation, delivered at FTU in Oslo in October 2015.
BA’s much maligned Club Europe is good value if they offer you a pre-paid upgrade. No so much if you have to pay full-fare. My trip from London Heathrow to Hamburg demonstrates this.
The NTSB has published a second update in its investigation of the engine fire which caused the dramatic evacuation of a British Airways 777 on the tarmac at Las Vegas. You can see video of it here: Their update is: • Investigators disassembled and documented the GE90 engine at the GE facility in Evandale, Ohio.…
In a move which spreads BA’s long haul flights between Terminals 3 and 5 at Heathrow, BA is moving a number of destinations to Terminal 3 from 14 October. The following destinations are making the switch: Accra, Cape Town, Denver, Las Vegas, Miami, Nairobi, Phoenix Vancouver Of course Terminal 3 is certainly the poor relation…
Over the past few weeks BA has made a number of mistakes. These have been apparent as very good value First and Business Class fares on various routes. After people booked, and in most cases were charged for them, BA decided that these were errors. Of course this sort of thing has happened for years.…
In its usual factual tone, the US Government agency responsible for air crash investigations has issued its first statement on the crash of the BA 777 at Las Vegas. The statement is as follows: British Airways flight 2276, a Boeing 777-200ER, equipped with two GE90-85B engines, registration G-VIIO, was operating under the provisions of 14…
As Queen Elizabeth II turns 63 years as the Monarch today, BA is celebrating – just a little. They are offering a ‘one day’ only discount off long haul tickets today – 9 September – of £63. Use the code CELEBRATE when booking
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