SQFG rides the world's favourite airline - (BA J FRA-LHR)

[SQflyergirl]

Preface:

This TR is not intended for the consumption of the BA Gold Gods of SQTalk ala jjpb3/jhm/sqfan - for this is their regular staple (kidding). As it was somewhat out of my normal patterns - I thought i'd write about it


Got to the airport in T2 FRA to find that the first flight out to LCY was cancelled. Many pax were accomodated on my flight: BA901 FRA-LHR

The night before, there was an EQP change from the regular 763 to a 752 on BA916 (which overnights in FRA before returning to LHR as BA901)

So I'd gone from a very lightly loaded 763 to a full 752.

Both these factors conspired to rob me of 1F which i had secured at T-25.

Having said that, the seat shifters somehow took pity on me and gave me 3A (which turned out to be a bulkhead seat)!

Anyway - pushback was on time, take off was a few minutes late as we had to hold for a few other departures.

Here are the pics:

Remote stand ! hurrah!


G-BPEK


Bulkhead seat 3A - fairly good legroom for asian sized people, the B seat folds in to give the pax in the A and C seat a few more inches.


Nicely embroidered head rest cover


Hot breakkies this time of the day. Found it quite tasty.



Approach into london: here's LCY (dedicated to jjpb3 as usual)

[SQflyergirl]

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Arrival into Heathrow. As you can see, LHR is merely a small outpost for BA judging by their one or two narrowbodies in this pic


Not sure who these two are. Never seen these airlines before



Overall: Haven't flown BA in a few years, but intra europe J is loosely (trolls/argumentative types mind the caveat here please) comparable to any I've tried. I like 'em! Seat pitch and hardware is about par for the course, but the aplomb at which service was delivered was quite nice - maybe I'm an anglophile - but the crew and me got on fabulously even on a short flight.

Best of all, I got my bag back too

[jjpb3]

Hooray, the evil LHR baggage black hole was de-activated for your flight!

A-C side in Club Europe rules! As for the E seat: . I tend to like BA's service as well, and the C-E brekkies are perfect for jump-starting the day.

[quik!]

Love the 2 unknown airplanes side by side...is that a koi-inspired livery?

[SQflyergirl]

Love the 2 unknown airplanes side by side...is that a koi-inspired livery?

No, that design is called Hibiscus - named after our Bunga Raya - national flower.

[SQflyergirl]

Hooray, the evil LHR baggage black hole was de-activated for your flight!

Lets hope it's deactivated for my flight out as well

A-C side in Club Europe rules! As for the E seat: . I tend to like BA's service as well, and the C-E brekkies are perfect for jump-starting the day.

Yes, but having said it was full, it wasn't TECHNICALLY full. All A/C D/F seats were taken, but no E seat was allocated. I liked that breakkies - don't know how many calories it had though :o

[quik!]

No, that design is called Hibiscus - named after our Bunga Raya - national flower.

Oh no how can I not know...being a Malaysian!

was just joking on the koi!

[SQFAN]

Oh no how can I not know...being a Malaysian!

was just joking on the koi!

That was worrying. I hope you have seen the other livery as well - The blue-ish version, I think it's called Freedom of Space.

[KeithMEL]

I noticed the seat shifters are quite good at protecting your preferred seat/s when EQP change occurs. My flight went from a low J 744 to a mid J but my original bulkhead aisle seat in WTP (17B) was immediately transferred to a comparable seat on the new config (11J).

So it does look like your chosen seat will now 'stick.'

*touches wood*

That was worrying. I hope you have seen the other livery as well - The blue-ish version, I think it's called Freedom of Space.

I think you're talking about the Heliconia.

[quik!]

Yeap, Heliconia, with Freedom of Space tagline on it. Both are equally awesome IMO

[jjpb3]

So it does look like your chosen seat will now 'stick.'

Not quite, if I'm to judge from a couple of my recent experiences. You can still be victimized.

[KeithMEL]

Not quite, if I'm to judge from a couple of my recent experiences. You can still be victimized.

So I still need to look at checkmytrip compulsively hey. Here's hoping the seat shifters will leave me alone for Sunday. Unless I get shifted 'up front.'

[SQflyergirl]

Considering that 3A is indeed coveted by BA G all over, and there WERE a few of those onboard yesterday, mostly those who had transferred from the cancelled LCY flight. I'm a BAEC blue, so I think they took pity by making my seat at least comparable to the one I originally got at OLCI

[9V-SWP]

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Arrival into Heathrow. As you can see, LHR is merely a small outpost for BA judging by their one or two narrowbodies in this pic

indeed. small ops in LHR for BA. SQ also fly narrow boddies into this small airport.

[Lobster]

Had the pleasure of flying into LHR this morning. Experienced my first ever go around due to a plane still being on the runway. Then once we had landed we sat on the tarmac for nearly 2 hours waiting for a stand to become free. Once we finally got onto our remote stand it was then another 30 minute wait for some stairs to show up