Phew ... glad it's nearly over .....

[Fab Foodie]

It's because the people who usually fly BA economy don't think that they are travelling in a flying pub.

Not strictly true, mostly it's because some of us need to be semi-coherent at the end of the flight!
My days of being comatose by 11am on a flight to Chicago are mostly behind me .... well except a recent overnighter in Business on BA from Hong-Kong to London when the excellent and copious champagne was too hard to pass up :-)

 

[Fab Foodie]

[QUOTE 2634697, member: 259"]My brother in law was telling me how much the first class travelers like him look down on the Business class plebs like me.

I'm sure economy class doesn't even register on his scumometer. [/quote]

We're hard to distinguish from the goats and the chickens ....

 

[Fab Foodie]

I do a fair bit of travel with work, mainly out of T5 at heathrow.
But once a year I travel with the family on a holiday charter flight. It reminds me that even BA economy is 100 times nicer than a holiday charter flight.

... or 1000 times nicer than Ryanair ....

 

[Cheddar George]

Not strictly true, mostly it's because some of us need to be semi-coherent at the end of the flight!
My days of being comatose by 11am on a flight to Chicago are mostly behind me .... well except a recent overnighter in Business on BA from Hong-Kong to London when the excellent and copious champagne was too hard to pass up :-)

I've taken that flight twice this year, unfortunately i was more concerned with eating my dinner as quickly as possible and then getting a good 8 hours kip in. I'm glad somebody makes an effort to get their moneys worth.

 

[Jefferson Meriwether]

crockle season is what seaside residents call it

They're called Emmets down in Cornwall. A Grockle invasion is a necessary evil.


The only times I've ever flown is in January so thankfully haven't experienced the joys of flying in peak holiday times; I don't particularly want to experience it either.

 

[asterix]

[QUOTE 2634697, member: 259"]My brother in law was telling me how much the first class travelers like him look down on the business class plebs like me.

I'm sure economy class doesn't even register on his scumometer. [/quote]

My cousin would find it very easy to look down on your B-I-L. He has his own airy plane from which to do it. He says travelling is much easier if you have your own aircraft and has advised me to do likewise. I haven't got around to it yet though.

 

[Chromatic]

Airports are not my favorite places but Terminal 3 at Heathrow is the most unfriendly, unhelpful and staffed by the most offensive people that I've had the misfortune to meet!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You obviously never went to the (unsurprisingly ex-) passport office at Newport

 

[Puddles]

I dislike flying.

Its boring, the waiting time at the airport is boring, being on the plane is boring, waiting for your luggage the other end is boring, it is just vile and I avoid it quite well.

 

[Fab Foodie]

I've taken that flight twice this year, unfortunately i was more concerned with eating my dinner as quickly as possible and then getting a good 8 hours kip in. I'm glad somebody makes an effort to get their moneys worth.

I'd like to think we drank your share.
Usually I'm the same, a few G&Ts at the airport food and sleep, in fact sometimes eat at the airport as well and get to sleep as soon as thge wheels are up. But we had nothing pressing the next day so took full advantage of several G&Ts at the airport, then the champagne, slow dinner, good wine, port ..... ZZzzzzzzzz....... I missed brekkie!

 

[Leaway2]

but us humble business types trying to get from A to B. We know where we're going,

Pity the poor sods who work there. We have it eveyday

 

[Hill Wimp]

... or 1000 times nicer than Ryanair ....

Aeroflot is a 1000 times nicer than Ryanair!

 

[Fab Foodie]

Aeroflot is a 1000 times nicer than Ryanair!

Agreed, my last Aeroflot flights were fine.

 

[gbb]

[QUOTE 2634697, member: 259"]My brother in law was telling me how much the first class travelers like him look down on the business class plebs like me.

I'm sure economy class doesn't even register on his scumometer. [/quote]

Its all relative...
I used to generally fly economy. Occasionally you'd end up on a half empty flight...that NEVER happens on a charter flight. Once flew back on a Cyprus Airways scheduled flight, I swear there were only 30 people aboard. An economy seat with Cyprus Airways gets you some really quite nice service..some of the best ive had for economy. Charter flights dont even register anywhere near.
Occasionally flew business class...oh lordy, all of a sudden, you're looking down on those poor economy plebs (only joking, but still...)

And yet..using the VIP lounges...you could occasionally almost feel the resentment that a mere pleb like me should be there, but i ususally travelled in very casual clothing, engineering doesnt require suits and smart clotning..but there again, ive had very chilled times there too.

 

[Hill Wimp]

I liked the way that Ryanair opened up various places in France in the early days but I hate their money grabbing schemes that they seem to come up with on a weekly

 

[ceepeebee]

... the holiday season that is.

Not that I don't like being on holiday, far from it, but during the summer period, airports are sheer misery. In fact I never fly for holidays. For those of us that use aeroplanes like others use buses or trains for their commute, one develops strategies, timings and ways to deal with the everyday getting to and fro from someplace. Then all of a sudden our well-worked-out routines become inteferred with by a sudden influx of bodies aimlessly getting in your way and generally clogging the place up! The cheek of it!
For 9 months of the year places like Heathrow in particular and most other major euro-hubs are kept alive but us humble business types trying to get from A to B. We know where we're going, we know the drill at security, where the essentials airside are and if we have to shop we know exactly where and when. We know how to board a plain effeciently, that we all have a seat and how our bags fit the storage for maximum utilisation. Standards of dress are reasonable if boring.
Then, the summer season starts and wham, queues grow exponentially, security takes much much longer, all routes airside are full of ambling shoppers like randomly moving chicanes, getting to the gate is like negotiating Bluewater shopping centre on sale day, boarding becomes a scrum, and overhead locker organisation frankly goes to pot. Furthermore there's rather a lot of inappropropriate flesh on display which can put one off ones Pret-a-manger pain au raisin and double espresso. There's a peculiar look that a Brit seems to don for 'going away' and it's generally not a good one.

Thank god the kids are going back to school ;-)

Try commuting through gatwick every day. Each and every day a parade of gormless idiots towing their portable trip hazards on sticks, never realising that they're dragging them across your path. And now they've started doing up the escalators so there's only one to get off a platform? So many people standing on the left, FFS.