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British Airways is with daily service and increasing Miami to double daily. They announced their exit from DFW a year ago, along with dropping its second Miami flight.
A British Airways business class passenger flying long haul with her 7-month-old baby asked if she could delay her meal service while she nursed the child and put him to sleep. That request was declined, so she was forced to skip meal service. She set herself up in the business class bed, lying fully flat, in order to nurse under a cover.
Rooms at the hotel feature bondage beds and swing frames; mirrored ceilings; “human-dog” cages and leather harnesses; sex toys – and one of their rooms contained a spa bath moulded in the shape of a vagina.
British Airways has cut back on water for passengers on its long haul flights, in a test that runs through Sunday. They’ve eliminated individual water bottles from the economy and premium economy cabins, leaving customers reliant on flight crew to provide them with water in paper cups poured from larger plastic bottles.
British Airways has a bizarre new policy for flight attendants and pilots, prohibiting them from posting any photo or video taken at a layover hotel. That applies inside the hotel, outside the hotel, and even in the parking lot.
They’ve even been told to comb through their existing social media feeds and delete every trace of past hotel content They have to do this “even if the account is set to private” – or risk firing.
Shortly after takeoff, passengers and crew noticed the male cabin crew member seeming agitated and distracted. He allegedly began using cocaine openly in a bathroom on the aircraft. Eyewitnesses reported that he then returned to the business class cabin and stripped naked and performed what was described by witnesses as a “wild, drug-induced dance.”
The British Airways employee got caught listing access to standby travel for three months on the auction site, asking nearly $800. In addition to non-rev flights, buyers would gain access to discounted confirmed space as well.
Bilt’s April 1 Rent Day feature is a points transfer bonus up to 100% to British Airways, Iberia and Aer Lingus. Since Iberia business class between the U.S. and Europe starts at 34,000 Avios one-way, that means business class across the Pond from 17,000 Bilt points.
What remains most striking to me here is that in trying to get more card spend, more vacation package bookings, and more ticket spend, they aren’t giving customers any carrot in the process – just a stick.
Lightning struck a British Airways Airbus A350 while at the gate in Sao Paulo – and it flew to London anyway, six hours late.
Gary Leff is one of the foremost experts in the field of miles, points, and frequent business travel -- a topic he has covered since 2002.
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