BA's new boarding policy - I don't understand why people are upset?

If I have hand luggage on short haul I pay extra for front and on first. This is because putting my bag 18 rows back because I ‘last minuted’ it is an annoyance. I like to be off first and through passport control and I get annoyed waiting for people who forget EVERYTHING when it comes to getting off. By everything I mean walking, breathing, other people, the fact they are supposed to get off now etc.

Long haul I tend to turn left so less of an issue.
 
Housey said:
If I have hand luggage on short haul I pay extra for front and on first. This is because putting my bag 18 rows back because I ‘last minuted’ it is an annoyance. I like to be off first and through passport control and I get annoyed waiting for people who forget EVERYTHING when it comes to getting off. By everything I mean walking, breathing, other people, the fact they are supposed to get off now etc.

Long haul I tend to turn left so less of an issue.
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Best thing on short hauls is to take a back pack and just stick it under the seat infront of you.

seen people do it with huge jack wolfskin bags even that only fit halfway under and never seen any of the staff pointing it out as an issue.
 
1a to 1d tend to have a bulkhead or an air hostess and they get annoyed when you ask them to hold your back for take off and landing. Typical selfish airline :)
 
SlyReaper said:
Well you might. Airlines tend to overbook flights, because they expect a certain percentage of no-shows. If they have fewer no-shows than expected, there might not be enough seats for everyone.
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That is (finally) a good point as to why you should make sure you're on the plane promptly. But I'd like to know when they would tell you they're overbooked and you're not getting on? Surely it's way before you get to the gate.. :confused:
 
Scam said:
That is (finally) a good point as to why you should make sure you're on the plane promptly. But I'd like to know when they would tell you they're overbooked and you're not getting on? Surely it's way before you get to the gate.. :confused:
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As long as you have checked-in (online or using the airlines's app etc.) and have a boarding pass then you are pretty much 'guaranteed' that you have a seat (barring any technical issues such as your allocated seat on the plane having a fault with it). If you check-in very late at the airport itself then you massively increase your risk of getting 'bumped' due to overbooking.
 
Scam said:
That is (finally) a good point as to why you should make sure you're on the plane promptly. But I'd like to know when they would tell you they're overbooked and you're not getting on? Surely it's way before you get to the gate.. :confused:
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You'd hope so, but no system operated by creatures 1% removed from chimps can be infallible. Remember that doctor in America who got dragged bloody-nosed out of a plane earlier this year, because they were overbooked and he wasn't willing to give up his seat? He was already seated, with his luggage stowed, and he still got kicked out.
 
Blackjack Davy said:
Who flies BA anyhow? I've never flown with them in my life there are always better/cheaper deals elsewhere. If it bugs you that much vote with your feet and choose a different airline if enough people do the same they'll get the message sure enough.
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Something like 60 million people a year.

I use BA for work - Athens, Copenhagen plus a few more.
 
Selekt0r said:
As long as you have checked-in (online or using the airlines's app etc.) and have a boarding pass then you are pretty much 'guaranteed' that you have a seat (barring any technical issues such as your allocated seat on the plane having a fault with it). If you check-in very late at the airport itself then you massively increase your risk of getting 'bumped' due to overbooking.
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Unfortunately not. I use KLM a lot through work and the regularly bump people at the gate (usually in return for some financial compensation and a reschedule)
 
There was a point where BA short-haul was pretty overpriced when the likes of easyJet etc. first came onto the scene. But they reacted well and are now fairly comparable in my opinion. I got to Barcelona and back for £200 which wasn't bad considering it was to/from LHR and I booked it 4 days before (it was a work trip).
 
For work I tend to use

KLM
British Airways
RyanAir
Austrian
Eurowings
EasyJet
Air Baltic
LOT
WizzAir

If I'm completely honest, they are all much of a muchness. KLM, LOT and Austrian give you a free drink and snack but otherwise it's all the same. Unless you fly business or some kind of premium long haul service they are all just buses with wings, whether you go low cost or not.

Source: I take about 100 short haul flights a year with the above airlines.
 
With 260 working days in 2017, that's a flight every 2-3 days! Ouch, what do you to deserve that?

I guess the airmiles rack up though...
 
I wouldn't necessarily assume that his flights are confined to working days... plenty of people might fly on say Sunday evenings etc.. too

then again one guy I know used to fly every Monday morning and Friday evening to the same European capital then spend the weekend in London with the wife/kids - he racked up some serious airmails/hotel points

it also isn't as bad as it sounds - once he was over there staying in a city centre hotel his commute to the office was about 2 minutes... add in the time wasted on flights and actually his total hours commuting for the week as a whole was probably about the same if not less than plenty who have bought a house in some commuter town outside London and had to get train + tube every morning/evening
 
I also prefer to board last, except for the fact you usually can't get any storage room for your carry on because everyone is hell bent on carrying on hard suitcases that do not flex at all. On top of that, you also have the fact people still put yellow tagged items into the storage bins and not in front of them.

Why don't they board planes from back row to front? Surely that would make more sense?
 
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