[AMcWhirter]

In case any readers are intending to travel to Cairo with British Airways this month I thought I ought to highlight our news story of today.

It means BA will be using a short-haul A321neo instead of the normal wide-body aircraft (including Air Belgium’s A340 which had featured once or twice).

The A321neo is being deployed from LHR between 09-19 July. From CAI the dates are 10-20 July (as the plane overnights).

British Airways to deploy short-haul A321 on London-Cairo route

[esselle]

So does this mean the seating is CE equivalent rather than J as it has been in the past?

If so not good news for this longish flight.

[Folium]

Whatever happened to the mid-haul A321s with a “proper” business seat that came with the acquisition of bmi? Flew on them once to TLV and back. Great experience.

[SimonS1]

The mid haul aircraft are still around but BA is trying to do too much with available fleet, especially with 787 engine issues.

5 hours in CE (‘economy with empty middle’) seating…..yuk.

[AMcWhirter]

[quote quote=947561]So does this mean the seating is CE equivalent rather than J as it has been in the past?[/quote]

As noted in the piece (see final paragraph) BA will provide Club Europe rather than Club World.

The website must surely have been changed by now (Thursday evening) because when I checked Ba.com this morning no business class details were displayed.

[Folium]

[quote quote=947594]The mid haul aircraft are still around but BA is trying to do too much with available fleet, especially with 787 engine issues.

5 hours in CE (‘economy with empty middle’) seating…..yuk.[/quote]

Doesn’t 5 hours qualify as mid-haul? What routes are those ex-bmi planes flying now?

[SimonS1]

Amman, Beirut and some Moscow flights I believe.

[traveldoc1]

Flew Beirut-London earlier this year on a mid-haul (ex-BMI) A321. Really nice J Class

[rferguson]

This used to happen every now and then on the TLV route when we had the 767 aircraft. A longhaul configured one would be switched for a short haul one. Back then the ‘compensation’ was reasonable. Being 2 x 2 x 2 on the short haul 767 each customer was given two seats as well as around £400. We always expected to endure furious customers but quite a few were delighted – they were travelling at the behest of their employer and had just pocketed £400.

I think LH takes the award for the worlds worst business class longhaul flight on a short haul aircraft. Frankfurt to Pune with a refueling stop in Baku. Thankfully it was short lived. Ten hours in total.

Lufthansa Is Launching The World’s Worst Flight

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