British Airways - BAW

In the past year I have flown BA on several flights - three times across the Atlantic along with several domestic flights on the airline. It wasn't always thus - for many years British Airways were too expensive for transatlantic flights - although my very first flight to the US was on BA I didn't actually get round to flying them there again until 12 years later. Similarly the regular BA flights I used to take from London to Brussels when my husband worked there in the late 90s ended up giving way to cheaper alternatives courtesy of Eurostar and the now defunct Virgin Express airline. Moving ... more

Update details Since writing this review I made a BA trip to Warsaw. I thought it would be interesting to as well as including generic observations of the BA Club Europe produce I include a like for like comparison with the LOT business class flight I took to Warsaw in May (see my review of 21 August). I hope this will be useful both in terms of looking at the benefits of two different suppliers of a direct business product on the same route and also in terms of giving what I think proved to be a fairly typical snapshot of a BA flight. It is true that if you use a single airline a lot you are ... more

British Airways. I recently took a trip with British Airways from Gatwick airport to Venice Marco Polo airport and Heathrow to New York and Bangkok. Who are British Airways? British Airways is the National carrier of the United Kingdom although some might say after the ethnic painting of the tail incident and Margaret Thatcher covering the awful design with a tissue, this painting incidentally cost millions of pounds and was a completely ridiculous idea. Richard Branson’s Virgin airways may be considered a massive competition to BA. BA has a very comprehensive destination system flying to all ... more

When I first heard there was a possibility of going to Sydney, I started digging around to find out what flights were available, and the likely prices. At that point, BA had an offer on for £448 return, unfortunately, I had to wait for permission from my line manager, and by the time this had been resolved, the offer had run out. I took advice from anyone willing to offer it, look at masses of websites, airlines and agents including Expedia, Opodo, Cheapestflights, last minute, Singapore airlines, Qantas, Virgin and BA to name a few. However, what immediately became clearer is that in the main ... more

As part of my job, I have to do a fair bit of travelling. 2 years ago I did 5 continents! Last year wasn’t too good, as most of my travel was driving in Europe. Anyway this year I have had to do rather a lot of work in various places, so I have quite a lot of return flights around Europe. I now feel pretty well placed to write an op on British Airways, having probably made over 200 flights with them all round the world (I would say over 95% of them with BA). This op will really concentrate on the latest flights I have been on, and my experience of BA on these flights. ** Who are British ... more