BA Food

Things are slowly being changed, but I wouldn’t expect to see anything noticeable for now. A new Director of Customer arrived earlier this year who put a hold on anything new being introduced. He has come from an hotel background, so perhaps wants to make things better than what was proposed (well, we hope). So I’d wait a wee while for any changes. I’ve read in various articles that he is going to focus on Club World first, introduce CW Mains to World Traveller plus (along with other upgrades), Club Europe and Economy (tuck boxes returning long-haul, for example). I’ve not read much about First, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t introducing things there.

BA have long ridden on the tails of their hard products, and many of the nice parts of the journey have been “enhanced” away. We can only hope this new director is good at getting things back on board (cheese and dessert, for example, rather than cheese or dessert in Club World). Heck, charge us all an extra £20, but give us something back for that. Something good. It can’t be that difficult.

Club Europe really needs a change – those 1/2 meal trays look like you’re having lunch at a junior school. Breakfast is just horrible, and the “afternoon tea” wouldn’t feed a hungry 5 year old. Real people like real food…hopefully that will make a comeback soon.

I am taking CW to SD tommorrow, will see how the food has changed since my last CW flight back in april

Thanks for the replies. Looks as if it will be a bit hit or miss still. I have to say that the only meal I have been truly disappointed with recently was in CW. Pudding came out as if it had been microwaved since 1980. I know it’s not the end of the world but if you’re straight off the flight into work a decent feeling round the personal equator helps.

Steven Walpole may not have any delay, but given his poor showing on the Heston Blumenthal / BA programme a few months back, that puts fear into my heart…Gate Gourmet (and their chefs) should be given a contract holiday from BA, and given over to someone better – a school dinner lady, perhaps?

I took CW to Sandiego last night. the food was the same as usual in terms of quality, the salad was good, the beef..well the sauce was like water but generally ok, not bad, not great. The menu card did mention Hestons input but I couldnt really see the difference in taste. They only had 2 choices of wine. Service was acceptable, tray just dropped on table and 30 minutes between courses.

generally flight was ok as expected in CW, one thing i did experiance was teh cabin was unbelievebly hot, the hottest I can ever remember on board any flight…so hot that I was pouring sweat along with other passengers and to link to another thread I actually took my socks off on a flight for the first time!

SD is a mixed fleet route. Maybe their accelerated training regime failed to cover cabin climate control.

To be fair to the crew, it is not unknown to have people with very different preferences travelling.

In summer, I like to sleep no cooler than 25c, because this termperature is what we set on the aircon at home, to void dropping too far below the normal temperature. I can sleep without problems up to 29, although wake up feeling a littlewarm/

One’s body does get used to it.

Some people like it a lot cooler.

Guess you can’t please all of the people all of the time.