NEWS: British Airways reintroducing First class on 5 routes and which BA routes have First?

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1. Will Cape Town still have club suites or will it be the old style club ?
   Seat guru only shows 777 with first and the old style but I’m not sure how up to date it is ?

   1. I’m booked in Club Suites to CPT next January on a 777 and I noticed there was a First cabin (albeit unbookable at the time) when I reserved my seats.

   2. We are booked on the Atlanta flight listed above. When I reserved, BA.com was showing Club Suites. After the reintroduction of First Class, however, the seat map changed to show the old Yin/Yang layout. I’m hoping that BA switched the layout again prior to my flight, but knowing their reputation, I’m not holding my breath! 😅

      1. Fingers crossed for you!

2. Thanks for the reply. We are looking at booking club but wanted to make sure it was still suites.

   1. Do a dummy booking on BA.com and see what the seating plan is showing. I read the expectation is all the Heathrow based 777 fleet will have had CS installed by the end of this year but that could easily slip and even if it doesn’t there could be a last minute aircraft swap and you end up in old CW. I think I’d be guided by the flights times and dates that work best for you to help avoid disappointment later

3. Is BA flying first to India? I thought this had ceased!

4. In the real world try flying BA biz to Nice from Gatwick.
   Well to start it is not BA but A320 and crew leased Avion Express. Not sure how either has passed their MOT but EU laws on transporting animals clearly do not apply to these knackered planes and crew.
   Premium pricing in biz does apply, even though the first two rows have no overhead bins as they are red label reserved ‘crew only’ and food is stale and pretty much inedible.
   I have had to fly this route twice in the last week, the first flight the CSM was so fat she had to walk sideways down the aisle and between the crew they dropped nearly as much as they served and on the second flight whoever was making cabin announcements was pretty much unintelligible unless you were a wizz air FF.
   No wonder BA plus its disastrous IT is seen as a distress purchase by many of my travelling friends and colleagues.

5. I hope that the current BA plan which has been put into action on some (June) JFK (and all JFK from July) becomes the norm which would be a first for the airline : having dedicated cabin crew in first to make it respectable enough to try again. Generally BA is shoddy and at odds with itself and on my own money I travel Air France first class but work has an agreement with BA so BA it has to be for London/New York. In the last few weeks I have had 3 return flights to JFK. The first two were notably different and I put it down to good luck though 4/6 single flights is more than just luck. Then going back last week it was the same so I mentioned and the lady explained the plan. Coming back on Friday night the air steward in my side was fantastic. My colleague on the other side had a less good experience with an officious bolshy woman who was overly rude to an Indian lady who needed extra help so the others could hear. But, 5/6 good experiences is worth the mention I think. Let us know if your contacts can verify this improvement some more.
   Have you heard anything about such a plan? I have to say though that the long flights to Japan these days I will still go on JAL or ANA. I can;t see BA ever being up to the mark on Asian flights.

6. We’re booked Haneda – LHR next March on the second daily flight …
   777 rather than 787.

   Is there an easy way to see if BA release any First Class Avios seats on these flights?

   Thanks.

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