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New Upper Class amenity kit

PostPosted: 18 Nov 2012, 12:25
by Pete
Cue the palpitations of GJ somewhere on the west coast...

No details of the contents, but they have been designed to double up as an iPad case.

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Re: New Upper Class amenity kit

PostPosted: 18 Nov 2012, 12:53
by preiffer
Pete - where have you been?! These have been photographed on here for months, boy! :P

Re: New Upper Class amenity kit

PostPosted: 18 Nov 2012, 16:56
by Darren Wheeler
Are they coming with iPads now? :P

Re: New Upper Class amenity kit

PostPosted: 18 Nov 2012, 17:49
by JCBR
Yes they have been around a few months now !

The contents are fine - all that you need. The rest you would throw away anyway.
What I do feel is that they have thought too much about the bag. If someone goes to the expense of buying an ipad then I do not think they will be impressed with the flimsy ammenity kit bag. Sure it fits perfectly but so what ?

I think the kits given on in-bound are far more useable - the contents are the same but the bag is half the size and at least likely to get used for nick nacks (whatever they are).

Re: New Upper Class amenity kit

PostPosted: 19 Nov 2012, 00:16
by easygoingeezer
My ipad is actually in the VA case, I should sit in the corner now and continue blushing.

Re: New Upper Class amenity kit

PostPosted: 19 Nov 2012, 08:33
by slinky09
easygoingeezer wrote:My ipad is actually in the VA case, I should sit in the corner now and continue blushing.


Egg :0 B) v( (PS mine's in a Damier Graphite LV iPad cover!).

Re: New Upper Class amenity kit

PostPosted: 19 Nov 2012, 08:56
by at240
The purple UC lining of my first iPad case has already frayed and come apart - and I've barely used it!

Re: New Upper Class amenity kit

PostPosted: 19 Nov 2012, 16:40
by joeyc
at240 wrote:The purple UC lining of my first iPad case has already frayed and come apart - and I've barely used it!


Ha ha. The first one I got, the ipad would not fit in due to the zip being sown shut.... got the contents out although I had to wait to get home to cut it open and find my trusty iPad 1 did not fit ii)

Re: New Upper Class amenity kit

PostPosted: 19 Nov 2012, 17:45
by hat
the finish isn't great & i can't see them lasting long but mine is currently employed for housing all my various wires & adaptors that seem necessary these days.

I don't think i'll be running out of shoe bags anytime soon anyway :D

Re: New Upper Class amenity kit

PostPosted: 19 Nov 2012, 18:56
by ratechaser
hat wrote:the finish isn't great & i can't see them lasting long but mine is currently employed for housing all my various wires & adaptors that seem necessary these days.

I don't think i'll be running out of shoe bags anytime soon anyway :D


Aren't the bags made from recycling cheap pens of the sort that are now part of the UC kit? If so, I certainly wouldn't put money on them lasting long :-)

Re: New Upper Class amenity kit

PostPosted: 19 Nov 2012, 22:01
by ShallowHal
What amenities do you get in the bag? I know on BA in CW you get some nice elemis miniatures which are fairly handy (moisturiser, lip balm etc).

Re: New Upper Class amenity kit

PostPosted: 20 Nov 2012, 07:24
by Tinuks
ShallowHal wrote:What amenities do you get in the bag? I know on BA in CW you get some nice elemis miniatures which are fairly handy (moisturiser, lip balm etc).


Not a lot really. Black socks (no more coloured toes and heels), eye shades, ear plugs, a cheap looking pen,a flimsy toothbrush and a sliver of toothpaste. Oh and the Change for Good envelope.

Re: New Upper Class amenity kit

PostPosted: 20 Nov 2012, 10:32
by at240
And some tissues too.

Re: New Upper Class amenity kit

PostPosted: 19 Dec 2012, 21:17
by getinjonathan
Why is it when on my returning flight from JFK on the VS4 I only got a mini kit, no iPad cover..

I flew an A340-6 outbound and got the ipad case?

Re: New Upper Class amenity kit

PostPosted: 19 Dec 2012, 21:40
by honey lamb
getinjonathan wrote:Why is it when on my returning flight from JFK on the VS4 I only got a mini kit, no iPad cover..

I flew an A340-6 outbound and got the ipad case?

I think there is a smaller kit on the return flight than on the outbound

Re: New Upper Class amenity kit

PostPosted: 19 Dec 2012, 21:43
by getinjonathan
honey lamb wrote:
getinjonathan wrote:Why is it when on my returning flight from JFK on the VS4 I only got a mini kit, no iPad cover..

I flew an A340-6 outbound and got the ipad case?

I think there is a smaller kit on the return flight than on the outbound


How does that make sense? I don't understand the thought behind that process.

Re: New Upper Class amenity kit

PostPosted: 19 Dec 2012, 21:48
by hat
neither do i - it's outbound for some - but that's how it works now. At least this way you get something different each way

Re: New Upper Class amenity kit

PostPosted: 20 Dec 2012, 12:08
by barg
It's just a different kind of bag on the outbound. A travel wallet. Same contents.

Re: New Upper Class amenity kit

PostPosted: 20 Dec 2012, 13:11
by gayboyzuk
Bags are really cheap used mine to carry my Ipad to the beach each day in Mexico last 2 weeks by day 6/7 all the inner lining had come away v(

Re: New Upper Class amenity kit

PostPosted: 20 Dec 2012, 13:50
by LovingGold
Why I don't think the UC kits are really what they should be in UC compared to what we have had in the past, I don't have the same quality issue with my iPad cover.
I use it all time when traveling and it's still like new.