Iberia / Vueling Business class
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at 00:21 by IanFromHKG.
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JeffDParticipantI need some advice. I am being positioned to Southern Spain for a few months. During my stay I am going to be doing a lot of flights both domestic and international. I have just noticed that despite being booked to fly Iberia in business class I am actually flying on a Vueling flight. Has anyone travelled on Vueling in business class ? I thought it was a LCC and am a bit concerned about the inflight service on offer.
4 Mar 2016
at 18:50
FirstClassWannabeParticipantVueling do not have Business Class. I might be wrong but I think you would get what they call an excellence fare. This gives you:
Seat in row 1 with no-one next to you
Flexibility on changes and cancelations
Check in your bag (23 kg)
Exclusive check-in desks
Fast-track through security control
VIP lounges
Priority boarding
Reserved room for your hand luggage (14 kg)
Choice of on-board catering
Vueling Points, Avios and Iberia PlusThe catering is basically what you want from their buy on board menu.
Enjoy.
4 Mar 2016
at 20:08
CathayLoyalist2ParticipantI’ve flown Vueling a couple of times in ‘Y’ and I am not aware they have Bus Class. For short flights inter Spain/Europe economy is fine. Iberia Bus Class (Europe) is similar i.e middle seat empty. Flew Bus with them to JFK and later this month to Boston out of Alicante. The bus class product is fine but it was the fare that was attractive ALC-MAD-BOS return GBP 1500 ! The gem is Air Nostrum which is Iberia’s Regional airline where the cabin crew on what is generally very short hops are immaculately turned out.
10 Mar 2016
at 13:12
RichardBarrParticipantI had that happen to me. A client booked business class on Iberia from Tel Aviv to Barcelona code share with Vueling. I was connecting to a BA flight to LHR. I have to say I actually found the Vueling flight to be very pleasant. The staff on board are young and jovial. Aside from the airline’s ontime record needing improvement out of TLV, I wouldn’t hesitate to fly with them again.
12 Mar 2016
at 08:39
FDOS_UKParticipantIt’s been a while since I flew Vueling (pre IAG), but when I did, I found it to be a perfectly good airline, especially with the free seat in the front few rows.
Let’s get real for a moment, there is a limit to what European airlines will do with an A320 and only a marginal difference between legacy and loco, these days.
12 Mar 2016
at 11:09
rfergusonParticipantYup no business class on Vueling. It’s the ‘excellence fare’. Collecting Avios looks muddly. BA.com says you only collect when booking a Vueling flight as an IB flight number. If you have an Iberia FF account you can elect during the booking process to earn Avios for credit to that IB account.
Row 1, Dedicated check in. Lounge access. Free food from the BOB menu.
http://www.vueling.com/en/vueling-services/vueling-s-new-fares/excellence-fare
Not sure what happens if more than four people per flight book an ‘excellence’ fare!
12 Mar 2016
at 13:09
IanFromHKGParticipantSo for the excellence fare you get the same seat as economy, but the seat next to you empty. You get priority check-in, fast track, lounge access and priority boarding. You get a free check-in bag, free food.
So far, it sounds an awful lot like BA short-haul.
But on Veiling you get reserved space for 14kg of cabin baggage, and you’re guaranteed to be in row 1, plus you can change to an earlier flight on the same day for free. So actually – better than BA!!
(And no, I’m not picking on BA particularly, I suspect the same is true for most other European airlines, it’s just that my only recent experience has been on BA and AY, and the AY flights were codeshares with BA!)
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