BA Business Class and Club Europe

I live in Scottsdale, Arizona and the only international flight, not counting Canada and Mexico, is BA’s daily to Heathrow. The equipment is a very old and tired 747-400 with 2-4-2 seating in biz. I’d like to know what genius thought that anyone would like to fly sitting backwards by the window. with the screen down you are looking right into the face of the person next to you which is fine if you know them but very uncomfortable if you do not. Other than a bin to put your shoes in there is not one single place for storage. On top of that the video monitors are so old the picture is very grainy and skips constantly. On several flight it has been broken completely. Connecting out of Heathrow to any place on the continent Club Europe seating is identical to economy except the don’t sell the middle seat. No wonder the Middle East and Asian airlines are picking up so much business.

I would agree that the 747 is getting a bit tired and the entertainment is somewhat limited. They made a mistake with the storage when they upgraded Club World.

Would agree with Simon the ME airlines are unlikely to be taking too much from BA on US routes and they still do very well out of the Middle East.

Sadly Club Europe is not what it was but BA are really only offering the same standard as other European airlines, certainly my travels on AF and KL reflect that.

The OP makes factual comments, which are fair comment.

The problem is, no other airline seems to want to fly from Phoenix, AZ, direct to Europe, so he must either accept the convenience or take an indirect route.

SimonS1

The ME airlines are taking quite a lot of potential business off BA in the USA. Why would one connect via London (with the need for a transit visa), when you could transit at DOH, DXB or AUH?

Think of communities withsubstantial Indian diasporas.

SimonS1

‘Long gone’ means lost a long time ago, but that isn’t so, the Indian diaspora are active travellers.

If you mean, unattainable, fair enough.