BA domestic flights go low-cost
January 10th, 2006 | Published in Travel | 1 Comment
Well, it had to happen sooner or later I guess! British Airways announced today that their UK regional subsiduary, British Airways CitiExpress, is going low-cost. BA Connect, as the new airline is going to be called, flies a lot of BA’s domestic routes within the UK. So that’ll mean paying for your (not great) food, and no AAdvantage miles (unless you’re prepared to pay £110 each way for a ticket).
I think low-cost airlines are good (apart from the effect they’re having on the environment), but there is something nice and relaxing about getting on a ‘plane for a short flight, and having a free glass of wine and a nice meal - without having to pay for it!
I only really fly BA between London Heathrow and Glasgow / Edinburgh though, and those flights will still be operated by British Airways, and not BA Connect.
What I can’t help thinking though is that if they’d done this a while ago, BA might still fly between Belfast and London, Edinburgh and Glasgow. They withdrew from these routes a couple of years ago, only to have been replaced by low cost airlines such as Easyjet and the annoying Flybe.com
March 2nd, 2007 at 9:25 pm (#)
[...] I’ve blogged before about full-cost carriers stripping out costs by getting rid of nice things like free food, so I was interested to see an e-mail from BMI today saying that from the beginning of April, all Diamond Club members holding blue plus, silver or gold cards and flying in Economy will get priority seating near the front of the plane, and complimentary food and drink. [...]