BA to follow BMi's lead on short haul flights??

Interesting article here
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=2009192005

"The decision comes amid speculation BA is to scrap complimentary catering as part of a review of its short-haul flights. The airline could adopt a buy-on-board system in an effort to reduce costs and avoid a repeat of the fiasco last month when a dispute at catering supplier Gate Gourmet caused the cancellation of thousands of services.

The system is likely to be trialled on regional flights - including services from Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen."

[Decker]

Y'know on flights of a couple of hours I'd happily have them not serve ANYTHING. It's not as though we're kept waiting in a desert for hours beforehand deprived of access to restaurants or bars...

[Scrooge]

Originally posted by Decker
Y'know on flights of a couple of hours I'd happily have them not serve ANYTHING. It's not as though we're kept waiting in a desert for hours beforehand deprived of access to restaurants or bars...

I agree 100% with you Mr D..let's face it,most of the stuff they throw at us on short haul is horrible,why not save a couple of pounds and just give us peanuts or offer a snadwich for sale,just make the price right.

[mitchja]

Yes I also agree with you Decker, especially on UK domestic flights - it always seems such a rush job anyway serving snacks and drinks for the 40 min flight MAN>LHR.

I quite often dont bother with anything on domestic flights, especially when I'm on my final leg home back up to MAN as all I want to do it get home plus I'm also usually snoozing anyway.

Regards

As an alernative view, I always used to relish my weekly commute to LHR-GLA on bmi when, if travelling on Sunday (usually in 1C), I would lay bets with the cabin crew on how many bottles of the mediocre red wine I could put away in a 45 minute flight.

Actually, this illustrates one point about in-flight catering: it does give the pax something to do...

BC

I guess the point here though isnt really about whetehr you want ti or not, Im guessing its about how its a sign of cutbacks everywhere, and for a large airline like BA to cut back food on services, it must be bad.

Originally posted by BlackCat
As an alernative view, I always used to relish my weekly commute to LHR-GLA on bmi when, if travelling on Sunday (usually in 1C), I would lay bets with the cabin crew on how many bottles of the mediocre red wine I could put away in a 45 minute flight.

Actually, this illustrates one point about in-flight catering: it does give the pax something to do...

BC

What was your record?

And did you ever win a bet? ;)