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This is a taste of the pent up demand, wait until more countries go on it. The Indian variant does however remain a concern. Nice to read though that new efficient way of pre ordering catering on European routes and for duty free means less trolleys carried and therefore less weight on the aircraft.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-9582003/What-green-light-flight-like-Mail-Sunday-hops-plane-out.html
...... and what did I say about BA ensuring they get nice big pictures of the plane and livery as part of the key opening up media images???? Looks like the marketing team are on the case.
I have posted I expect every single seat made available to be filled whatever the class. Also, I am not aware that Norwegian have let any of their slots or lh aircraft go. All the predictions of changes to lifestyle, everybody doing everything online and so on, I had have always rejected. As I have said before, video conferencing has been around long before the world wide web and even with the world wide web and smart phones was only a small part of human interaction IN ADDITION to person to person contact. When true full opening up returns, every single seat will be full even when every available aeroplane is up in the air. A lot of people who had half a mind to travel before but just didn't get round to it have felt a sense of isolation without the freedom to travel. Now, those people will not put it off and will make more determined efforts to actually go exploring, visiting and experiencing. It's like the chocolate bar in shop. It's there, you know it's there and you can go along any time and get one and because of that it falls from your prime sight. Take it away from the shop and make it unavailable and suddenly you miss it and want it. The moment it is back, you pig out and vow never to take it for granted again and get a regular fill.
quick update on this (i know its only one flight but it continues to surprise me)
They have now added an extra row in club Europe and there are no seats available. That means almost 50% of the cabin is club Europe (much more profitable for BA) and 50% economy where seats are still being sold for £448! (more than CE would normally cost)
If this is an indication on what to expect when countries enter the green list, even with a limited amount of destinations BA/ IAG could have a very efficient year!
boselecta, there is a lot on the propaganda side trying to scare certain communities to take up vaccination offers. So far in certain communities that are not identified because of the woke culture and inevitable ****** allegations, the vaccine take up has been very poor due to attitudes of self-imposed segregation which, precovid, became the established norm and 'countries within countries' largely went about their separate lives co-existing side-by-side and mostly a peaceful arrangement. The pandemic has revealed these boundaries to be very deep and a big problem in trying to establish the social distance rules and then the need for full vaccination compliance. It has been a problem just under the reporting radar as a very sensitive issue. If this more full on approach drawing on the direct observations in India doesn't result in a better vaccination take up, then some communities are going to find themselves being cut-off and road blocked and eventually forced to take up vaccinations. You've got to tread on egg shells with this one but no amount of racial rhetoric is going to protect those communities from a killer virus.
They did say that travellers would be looking to upgrade were possible. Nearly two years of unspent travel savings to spend. Although, the CE middle seat is unoccupied so there may be an element of safe travelling at play and PR? Not for Ezj, Ryn or Wizz of course.
The Gov are keeping the people of the UK on their toes, once again, by ramping up the variant of concern spiel. The people of the UK have kept their side of the bargain - nearly eighteen months of lockdown, job losses, bankrupt businesses, severe mental health issues - in exchange for helping to bring the death rate to near zero and safeguarding the most vulnerable who are now well out of danger. Anyone who catches this now will now likely be in for a typical cold. What's with all the backtracking and the treating of us like idiots now?
We now need our side of the bargain given to us fully on June 21.
I'm off to Portugal next week and my word I have never seen club europe so big! Please remember, there will be very few business flyers on the plane and it goes all the way back to row 15 on an A320 - there are 2 seats unallocated currently so that mean a minimum of 58 are already booked in business class. Normally you get anywhere from 3 - 6 rows in business for a CE flight!
I'm a very frequent flyer and i have never seen that many seats allocated to Club Europe
Even at £200 a pop (and seats are currently being sold for over £500) that's £9600 of revenue just from the club seats on a short haul flight.
That is some serious demand!
On Monday, BA have 3 flights to Faro, 6 to Lisbon and 4 to Porto
On Friday, it increases to 4 a day plus extra frequency to Porto & Lisbon, the lady from the call centre told me that they are looking into launching flights to Portugal from Manchester, Newcastle and Glasgow from next week
I'm not selling this stock for a long long time!