Will you be the first today to fly the new British Airways A321 with the tiny loos?

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• Luca says:

  8 Mar8 March 08:31

  This is a massive downgrade even for Y pax. I really enjoyed the ‘iPad holder’ magazine rack freeing up my tray for BOB drinks….

• Cheshire Pete says:

  8 Mar8 March 09:03

  O/T Rob is there an option in your wordpress installation so we can choose to view replies in chronological order of posting, rather than nesting? This is one of those fast moving topics whereby I’m going to lose track of replies due to the default nesting layout.

  • Rob says:

    8 Mar8 March 09:10

    No. It is a global setting only I can switch, sorry.

• Save East Coast Rewards says:

  8 Mar8 March 09:52

  Tomorrow’s flights are now in Flightradar 24 – it’s the turn of Manchester and Aberdeen to get it! https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/g-medn

  09 March 2018
  London – Manchester BA 1386 07:55 return BA 1389 09:55
  London – Aberdeen BA 1308 12:10 return BA 1309 14:40
  London – Manchester BA 1398 17:30 return BA 1405 19:25

  No schedules for Saturday yet (if anyone gets them before they appear on FR24 let me know), if no one manages to travel on one today or tomorrow I’ll try and get one over the weekend.

• Paul says:

  8 Mar8 March 11:45

  “I would be surprised if even 20% of pax on a typical BA short haul had picked on price alone. Schedule is more important for corporates. And price is a function of other things too eg cost of getting to the airport”

  Not to the corporate I worked for. If you didn’t pick the cheapest flight the system reported this to your manager. Any inconvenience in time or schedule was to be borne by the employee.

  As others have said, for shorthaul I prefer the slimmer seat and when commuting weekly STN-AMS on easyJet was delighted if the aircraft had them installed.

  • Save East Coast Rewards says:

    8 Mar8 March 12:07

    People need to demand overtime or time off in lieu if they have to travel for business in their own time!

  • Scott says:

    8 Mar8 March 12:26

    More fool any employee who accepts that. My time is far more valuable than a small financial cost to a large company.

  • Genghis says:

    8 Mar8 March 12:45

    A previous employer of mine had a similar system which meant you had to get approval if it wasn’t the cheapest available flight, but it was possible to “frig” the outcome by narrowing the search parameters. Meant I always flew from LCY at times convenient to me.

• Benj says:

  8 Mar8 March 12:05

  I was in a DL A-320 with the tiny loos last week and they’re fine (unless you’re perhaps very large!). A very good use of space.

  • Lumma says:

    8 Mar8 March 12:32

    I don’t see anything wrong with them either, at least BA allow you to use them during boarding rather than having to wait until after takeoff like easyJet and Ryanair

    • Rachel says:

      8 Mar8 March 13:39

      You can use them during boarding on easyjet

    • Tim says:

      8 Mar8 March 18:54

      The loos themselves don’t seem such a bad idea unless you’re a bit of a cannonball. One bit of logical reasoning for the increase in number of rows in seats is reduced levels of compensation when things go belly-up. More passengers can be shifted more quickly when things aren’t extreme. Also: as someone who typically does 50+ short haul in economy per year – many segments are quite full. If the fuller ones get more revenue, then even if the less full ones do not, BA are still quids in?

      • Rob says:

        8 Mar8 March 21:03

        Yes, BA are quids in. Passengers are not. On a flight which is not full to within 13 seats, no-one benefits from the new set-up but everyone in rows 13+ loses.

  • riku says:

    8 Mar8 March 17:35

    I don’t know why rob continually writes that the toilets have been REMOVED, they have been MOVED. That itself doesn’t seem a big deal.

    • Rob says:

      8 Mar8 March 18:22

      And shrunk!

• craig says:

  8 Mar8 March 17:03

  Are they rolling out wifi on the plane while they are reconfiguring the aircraft to the new seat config?

  • Rob says:

    8 Mar8 March 18:23

    No, that is separate work.

• JamesB says:

  8 Mar8 March 19:09

  Loos might be small but I bet they are still wider and with greater pitch than the new seats. They also come with privacy so they are undoubtedly the best seats on the plane, reserved for GGL only.

• Anthony Burns says:

  8 Mar8 March 20:50

  As somebody who does circa 50 European flights a year price is exceedingly important to me.
  I would always prefer BA but after them Easyjet, Jet2, Norwegian and then Ryanair.
  In my experience more and more employers are insisting on staff travelling at the lowest price and Easyjet have done well by frequent flights to the most important destinations.
  Frankly BA can’t survive on the ‘posh boys’ flying as not enough of them to generate the revenue needed since the LCC’s seat costs are so much lower.
  The constant bashing of BA on here is sad as I believe they are doing a pretty good job in an exceedingly tough market place. If BA don’t take the sort of action they have they will not be flying within Europe.
  Other legacy carriers such as Lufthansa, KLM/Air France have set up LCC’s to compete.

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