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British Airways Flash sale from £25 one way
As well as the business class sale I wrote about here, there is a new flash economy sale for Europe which may be of interest. The sale is only on until midnight 7 May. You can find the flash sale page here.
Here are some example fares which are from Heathrow:
- Edinburgh – £33 (one way)
- Oslo – £35 (one way)
- Glasgow – £37 (one way)
- Stockholm – £37 (one way)
- Nice – £38 (one way)
- Jersey – £39 (one way)
- Paris – £39 (one way)
- Copenhagen – £40 (one way)
- Luxembourg – £29 (one way)
- Basel – £36 (one way)
- Toulouse – £37 (one way)
- Belfast – £37 (one way)
- Marseille – £39 (one way)
- Hamburg – £42 (one way)
- Cologne – £45 (one way)
- Stuttgart – £48 (one way)
There is also a sale from London City:
- Dublin – £25 (one way)
- Edinburgh – £33 (one way)
- Belfast – £38 (one way)
- Amsterdam – £52 (one way)
- Glasgow – £31 (one way)
- Zurich – £48 (one way)
- Frankfurt – £52 (one way)
- Rotterdam – £53 (one way)
The easiest way to find low fares with BA is via their low fare finder page.
BA trialling swapping water bottle for cup of water
According to the Flyertalk, BA is trialing removing the bottle of water you get in the economy and replacing this with a half a cup of water poured from a big bottle. This seems to go against the recently trumpeted billion-pound spending to make BA more premium.
I can understand from an environmental point of view the need to reduce single-use plastic. However, I think on longer flights a small cup of water is not going to be enough, and people may not realize in advance that is all they are going to get. I also like having an individual bottle so you can seal it up and have it when you want it rather than having to have the tray table down with an open cup of water.
The trial is being done on Larnaca and Budapest services currently, and with Larnaca being nearly 5 hours, I can see some rather unhappy passengers as a result. Obviously, you can also buy drinks on board or take your own with you. Whether this will definitely be rolled out remains to be seen.
What do you think of this idea? Let us know in the comments below?
Concorde Room cabanas nearly ready and more improvements on the way
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On a flight from Faro to Gatwick yesterday and received half a cup of water. Some people were complaining, but BA will still ignore.
Water trial: In Broken Britain there is one thing that succeeds like no other spin!
It’s not a ‘trial’ but a concocted ploy to reduce costs and offerings! Otherwise why not trial offering 2 bottles of water to see what the uptake was!
Tight and deceptive, but customers let them away with it as their position is too dominant!
Who are these jokers kidding?
When will the people reject this mediocrity and ‘trial’ deception.
It’s only ever one way with BA and that’s a miserable experience for customers. Perhaps customers have become so used to these behaviours that it has become normalised for them.
They truly are a miserable and joyless airline!
Getting rid of the small plastic bottles is obviously good from an environmental viewpoint – though my guess is that cost rather than environment is more in BA’s thinking! Most people sip their water over time rather than gulp it down – and BA has this annoying habit of collecting rubbish immediately after finishing serving so you won’t even have long to gulp!
We clearly have to make drastic lifestyle changes to save our planet: do the ideal solution would be to encourage passengers to bring their own reusable bottles/sealed cups that stewards would fill and refill on the flight. Personally I take my own empty bottle through security and fill it airside.
I agree with reducing single use plastic but a lot of companies are switching to cartons instead which is one option. BA could also give it out reusable bottles and wash and re-use but obviously it would cost money. I guess water containers are the ultimate answer but not everyone will bring one.
Great news on the reduction of plastic but bad for people who need rehydrating. It’s just water; why can’t BA offer refills? I can’t believe that if I asked a crew member for water they would refuse. Isn’t there some legislation about the need to offer drinking water to a captive audience? (Hence the craftily secreted water fountains in departure lounges across Europe).
Same cup of water on Malaga flight in March. Easier than trying to open the bottle which had a very difficult top. Had no problem getting a top up in the galley.
We flew to Tenerife in February and got the tiniest cup of water and tiny snack. Quite honestly I think it’s a complete waste of time and money and actually comes across as insulting. I don’t think BA are doing their reputation any favours, serve nothing and be completely transparent about it or serve a reasonable size snack and a bottle of water, at least people would know where they stand.
Completely agree Melanie
I went to Sharm in February with BA Euroflyer and was only a glass of water then.
Yes Euroflyer already only has a cup of water.
Moving from plastic bottles to plastic cups is surely only an attempt to further cost cut rather than have a marked environmental impact.
BA really aren’t doing themselves any favours with their continuing penny pinching.
I am not surprised at BA changing their ‘water on board’ policy. Far from becoming a premium airline, they are joining the race for the bottom and seek to be even more unpopular than Ryanair – EuroFlyer is just one example.
Yes Euroflyer has not been a good experience for me recently b
Ridiculous idea in my opinion to take away the bottle of water. If people don’t want the bottle they don’t have to have it. I only drink water and herb tea, no sodas, alcohol etc (for medical reasons) so I’m grateful for the bottles of water they give us, plus I bring my own empty bottle and fill it up in the lounge.
A race to the bottom quickly passing through mediocrity. During Covid you got offered a 500ml of water on European routes – now its less than 300ml of water. Club meals are worse than the Economy Class meals received on flights 10 plus years ago. I was asked on a BA flight recently ‘what do you want to drink mate’? How ignorant can they get? Flying BA in Economy is a ghastly experience. Iberia is so much better.
Instinct tells me it’ll take the crew more time to pour out a cup of water, then just dish out bottles of water. Ultimately the passenger is getting less from this change, so it’s a cost-saving/service reduction measure dolled up as doing something for the environment.
Agree it will take longer and mean they have less time to go round with the Highlife cafe so will it actually save money?
Ahh lounge implementation. Let’s spend a load of money on the B gates lounge. Remodel the internal walls, open it up more & reorganise the space so it’s more efficient. Should we sort out an First/ GGL dedicated area while we’re at as we’ve probably opened up enough for a small area that should still be able to handle the capacity needed.
Nahhhh. Lets spend the money, not bother and then throw a whole new bucket of cash and resources trying to put something in the C gates and create 20 extra complex task and compliance points in a few months. Don’t worry we’ll save a ton of cash via our new ‘Thimble of Water for the Planet’ initiative. Yes we’ll tie up a chunk of staff resourcing and be buried in paperwork again but we can’t have everything.
Peek BA
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