British Airways business class seating sucks on the A380

[Quartz]

BA is a crap airline.

The service by both the flight crew and cabin crew was excellent.

 

[GarethSouthgate]

The service by both the flight crew and cabin crew was excellent.

That's not unusual for most airlines in my experience.

 

[EvilRob]

I'm on BA premium economy for a 10 hour each way flight next week. Dreading it. Most of my recent travel has been to US on Virgin, so much better.

 

[OllyM]

Most of my recent travel has been to US on Virgin, so much better.

BA and Virgin are much of a muchness in my opinion, I used to fly both fairly regularly until Virgin stopped flying into Newark.

The Virgin Upper Class seats on the 787s and older A330s aren't exactly great, if you're fairly tall your feet basically stick out in to the aisle when laid down and people walk in to you constantly.

 

[CapitalOne]

I flew from Heathrow to Dallas and back on a BA A380. I flew business class and the seating really sucks. The problems are that to get to the window seats you have to squeeze through two other seats and that you have to go through the space of the aisle seat. The latter isn't really a problem during the day when passengers are sat upright but is during a night flight when the passenger with the window seat needs to get up to visit the toilet because the aisle passenger needs to wake and move their legs out of the way.

It’s been like that since about 1986…you have to pick your seats….how did you not know this?

 

[dlockers]

It’s been like that since about 1986…you have to pick your seats….how did you not know this?

I think you're missing the point --- for business class you don't expect to have to wake people up to go for a pee. The cabins are usually accessible without disturbing other people.

 

[Quartz]

I think you're missing the point --- for business class you don't expect to have to wake people up to go for a pee.

Precisely. I have flown business class several times and never had anything like this.

 

[jeffspuds]

i took my chance a few weeks ago JFK to heathrow just sat in a business class seat, someone boarded late on i was in their seat, luckily the one behind was empty i appologised oooops wrong seat and sat behind her, free champayne too.

 

[mattyg]

We fly business class wherever possible. Virgin Upper class is nice. Especially from Heathrow. As theres two of us and we generally try to fly over night we just go for the middle seats, That way were not disturbed.. Lay the bed flat and hopefully wake up refreshed at the other end....

 

[Raymond Lin]

I feel like 7hrs to the States is not long enough to warrant Business Class seats...12-15hrs however.

 

[Bald-Eagle22]

People always are still flying Club World ! BA are and have been the toilet in the sky for any business clas product for the last 10 years probably more.

Unless you tied yourself up with having to use an Avios seat or points you were mugged off.

American Airlines was the wise choice, check out the 787 config.

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I've just travelled Bclass with Finnair ro Asia , bet you didn't have this much room

 

[mattyg]

I feel like 7hrs to the States is not long enough to warrant Business Class seats...12-15hrs however.

Funny you should say that.
We were supposed to fly from Atlanta to Heathrow (via New Orleans to Atlanta) last year, Storm in Atlanta meant we flew into and out of JFK, Cutting 3 or 4 hours off the flight and it was just the wrong length. By the time we had food and settled there was only about 4 hours of sleep to be had so arrived at Heathrow tired with a drive up to the North West once cleared of the Airport....

I'm now not really a fan of connecting flights....

 

[Raymond Lin]

Funny you should say that.
We were supposed to fly from Atlanta to Heathrow (via New Orleans to Atlanta) last year, Storm in Atlanta meant we flew into and out of JFK, Cutting 3 or 4 hours off the flight and it was just the wrong length. By the time we had food and settled there was only about 4 hours of sleep to be had so arrived at Heathrow tired with a drive up to the North West once cleared of the Airport....

I'm now not really a fan of connecting flights....

That's basically it.

I have some Avois and Amex points I want to use but the tax out of the UK is insanely high so it is never worth it for me to use it towards that. I am waiting one day I can use it in either one of the partner airlines or flying in and out of mainland Europe to the Far East and use the points with one of the other airlines like Singapore or Emirates.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

I feel like 7hrs to the States is not long enough to warrant Business Class seats...12-15hrs however.

It’s worth it if you’re on the Red Eye and have to attend meetings etc. the morning you land.

 

[Raymond Lin]

It’s worth it if you’re on the Red Eye and have to attend meetings etc. the morning you land.

Well, if it's for work and ESPECIALLY if someone else is paying! Sure, it's worth it on every journey. lol

If I am not time constraint then I would rather get there a day before on economy and put the difference into a luxury hotel for the night(s).

 

[krooton]

I'm actually really disappointed with how far the A380s seem to have aged.
I flew on one shortly after launch and it was ace, flew on one recently and can see why airlines don't want them around, horribly configured planes that are clearly being run into the ground.

787 is the future.

Weird, I flew to Miami a month ago in the top-deck economy section and thought it was ace, WAY better than the horrid flight back on a 747.

 

[CapitalOne]

I think you're missing the point --- for business class you don't expect to have to wake people up to go for a pee. The cabins are usually accessible without disturbing other people.

Let me clarify.

It’s been like this since 1986 on BA Club World, it is famous for it how did you not know!

SQ, IB, QR, EK, AA, VS, none of them do the old ying yang.

Edit - always check the seat map.

 

[Rotty]

I flew from Heathrow to Dallas and back on a BA A380. I flew business class and the seating really sucks. The problems are that to get to the window seats you have to squeeze through two other seats and that you have to go through the space of the aisle seat. The latter isn't really a problem during the day when passengers are sat upright but is during a night flight when the passenger with the window seat needs to get up to visit the toilet because the aisle passenger needs to wake and move their legs out of the way.

I can usually just manage to get over their legs without disturbing them but not always

The thing that annoys me is that the footstool part of the seat/bed constantly collapses and you have to reset it

 

[Rotty]

That’s BA’s old Club World seat, and is being replaced fleet wide with their Club World Suite, first introduced on when the A350 came into service in 2019. I believe all the 777’s out of Heathrow have been done, and the Gatwick fleet is in the process of it. The 747 and A380 were pretty much dropped during the pandemic so may not have been planned for replacement, but with the A380 making a comeback I don’t know if they’re on the schedule for the upgrade or not.

don't think the Gatwick fleet are scheduled for an upgrade

 

[nam]

None of the A380's as yet have been fitted with the CW cabin suite which is in the 787,777,A350 having had the opportunity on each with BA always choose anything other than the A380 which you can at booking time through BA's site

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