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New Malaysia Airlines business class
Malaysia Airlines has revealed its new business class on the A330neo. Although its fares are currently extremely expensive, it is worth considering an Avios redemption or BA’s multi-partner redemption, which can work out a good deal. You can read more about multi-partner redemptions here.
As part of its fleet modernisation plan, the airline will add a new A330neo Business Class seat and Economy Class seat ahead of the first aircraft’s scheduled delivery in Q3 2024.
The new A330neo cabin will feature many ‘firsts’ for the airline and have 28 business class seats. Among those is the introduction of the Collins Aerospace Elevation Business Class seats, featuring an all-suite cabin with individual privacy doors, as well as wireless charging pods.
Malaysian also added three new routes, including Da Nang in Vietnam, which could be an interesting one for Avios redemptions.
British Airways to roll out Group 0 boarding to all destinations
BA recently held a couple of events to introduce their plans to improve customer satisfaction. One of those initiatives is now due to start this week with the rollout of Group 0 finally. Group 0 has been trialled to a small number of destinations for some time and now they are finally going to roll it out properly this week.
Group 0 will be available for BA Executive Club Gold Guest List members and Premier card holders. This will allow them to board before other passengers. I never really felt the need for this on long haul as often they call group 1 and then just make you stand there for ages before you can go down the jet bridge (or its a bus gate). However, as someone who likes to sit in row 1 on short haul where you have to stow everything above and there is very little storage overhead, this will be a great bonus on short haul. Group 1 will now be for Executive Club Gold members and Oneworld Emeralds plus First class passengers.
Of course, the most important question will be, will they actually call it as a separate group or now call groups 0-3 in one go as often happens and renders the group numbers completely pointless. Or call each group separately but with no gap in between so it just ends up a scrum of all the groups.
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Good initiative in theory but as you say, the reality will be ” We would like to invite groups 0-3 to come forward to the gate for boarding “
So disabled pax and those with young children become Group (-)1? 😂
And yeah. It’s now the Four group I’m 30 seconds rush I imagine
The real problem is a large number of people, hang around the boarding area, despite knowing all customers are going to be called in groups. Sadly unless you treat each passenger like a child, Group 0 will make difference. In my experience most boarding staff don’t have the patience or strength to let the scrum through.
they’re called gate lice, those who hang around the boarding area … 🙂
I cannot see them bothering to call group zero for flights other than long haul with first class.
BA boarding has been a mess for about 10 years now. And it’s all their fault really. Too many people in each group, calling the next group before the last group has finished, and calling multiple groups at once. And then creating a storm in a teacup to blame passengers who have a problem with the dysfunction. So as a result, passengers treat boarding a flight like boarding a London Underground carriage. It’s funny to us foreigners how the flag carrier of a country which treats queuing like a religion can’t get it right.
I flew to Glasgow yesterday and they called both group 0 and 1 together, then added group 2 then 3 all this took was about 90 seconds in-fact by the time group 9 was called I was only at the bottom of the escalator. It might work for long Hall and a nice perk for GGL but I think I’ll prefer if they can sort on time departures.
This is part of the problem with boarding in that they just end up with everyone together which makes the groups pointless.
Flew from Berlin to London City this afternoon. They called for Group 0 and then next for Group 1 – 3.
Was totally pointless because there was a bus from the gate to the aircraft and all groups boarded the same bus.
Exactly. Unless you have a separate bus for business class/group 0 it’s pretty pointless with a bus gate.
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