Today we're flying with British Airways in the Club Europe product.
We'll be seeing what it's like traveling after covid
and what experience we can expect from the airline.
We've already checked in, there was no queue and there is no lounge to try
here in Brindisi, so we'll be going straight on board and
seeing what we experience on our way back to london heathrow today.
Thanks for joining us.
{Announcement} We shall be boarding today by seat row number,
from the rear, this means there will be no priority boarding
on todays flight.
okay sir if you can put here, thank you have a good day.
so finally we're boarding the aircraft and it's a walk-on, there's no bus or
anything like that but it's been a bit of a process because they've been
boarding from the back to the front of the aircraft.
but here we go!
This aircraft had 12 rows of business class seats,
with the middle seat being left empty and being replaced with a tray to be
used for drinks or other items.
On boarding the aircraft we were provided with a personal protection pack
this consisted of antibacterial towel and hand sanitizer
this was to be used to clean down your chair arms
your seatbelt, basically anything that you might touch on the plane.
This is in addition to any cleaning they might do in between flights.
From the flight deck very good afternoon to you all, it's the captain here on behalf of
British Airways and our code share partners welcome you onboard this
British Airways operating A320 aircraft flights to London Heathrow Terminal 5.
Fairly short taxi out here in Brindisi, departure runway's just over on the
right-hand side. Once airborne the flight time is a fairly long one today, we're fighting
some fairly strong headwinds all the way across europe, so flight time today of
two hours and 55 minutes. In the meantime i wish
you all a very pleasant flight.
Due to the pandemic we have a selection of lunch boxes for our club
europe customers with a service of a bar and hot beverages.
A light snack will be provided for our euro traveller customers.
We would like once again to take this opportunity to share with you some
information regarding your hygiene and safe distancing
measures in flight. We ask that you stay in your seats as
much as possible and avoid walking around the cabin
or queuing in the galley areas. Before using the toilets, we ask that you
ensure and check the green vacant signs are lit
to avoid waiting in line from your seat area.
We require all customers to wear a face mask
at all time during the flight, we recommend that you wear it covering your
mouth and nose at the same time.
Each seat has overhead lights and air vents,
the center tray as mentioned before for
food and drink a power outlet in each footwell of the
seats an adjustable headrest for additional
comfort and of course another tray table in the back of the
forward seat.
Wi-fi was available on the flight, you could take a message package for £2.99
One hour web browsing and video
streaming for £4.99 or a shocking £9.99 for the full flight.
So the flight's well underway now and we've just been served our lunch,
which is a lunch box with a sandwich a small salad a dessert and some
still water. Obviously this is a distant cry from what you'd normally
receive in club europe where you can get a hot meal
or a decent cold salad on your way back
to london or whichever destination you're going to.
So here's like a little starter it's a little pot of hummus with
some kidney beans coriander sweet corn tomatoes.
Really good actually!
Very curryish ,coronation chicken!
I do find it a bit strange that British Airways
are not able to provide a hot meal because you still have all the touch
points with the box so it does seem a bit odd.
Knowing before i was coming on board that this is the sort of level of service I
would be receiving right now, that didn't detract or deter me from
booking the flight, but it might do for some people
as you're not getting quite what you were before but still paying the same
price for the ticket.
Drink service just come round it was served after the meal
which may be a little bit strange but anyway i have my
Ciroc vodka, a bitter lemon, Simon you've gone for a Gin and Tonic.
There was a choice of two gins and two vodkas on today's flight.
Simon you've gone for a tanqueray or you could have had a Gordons.
Smirnoffof red which is kind of gross or
Ciroc which is brilliant, so very happy.
Here with a quick update on our progress I do hope you're all comfortable
enjoying the flight so far just cruise now at 36 000 feet we're
leaving the adriatic behind us and crossing into
northern Italy. If you are fortunate enough to be set on the right-hand side
of the aircraft, there's a very fine view of Venice coming up on the right-hand side.
Almost directly beneath the aircraft
is a reddish island connected to the mainland via a straight causeway and
that is Venice. You can make out the Grand Canals making its way
through the city there.
We're just beginning our decent over the English channel.
you can see england coming into view and you can also see
lots of white peaks today, very very choppy seas we're expecting
high winds of between 30 and 40 miles per hour
cross winds as we land at Heathrow today due to the storm that's
inbound so it should be interesting as we reach further into the descent.
Captain here once again just in the descent now passing
14 000 feet towards London, looks like there's no delay back to the
airfield so if we get a straightened approach could be landing in about
15 minutes or so. The later weather on the ground as
expected temperature 21 degrees celsius
still that very strong southwesterly wind so as I say a little bit bumpy
here as we get closer to the runway
Our approach over London was pretty
bumpy and cloudy but we were lucky enough to have our landing captured by
big jet tv filming at london heathrow for the day
If you're an AV geek you may want to check out bigjet tv's
youtube channel.
get there, you see you get that little bit of
turbulent yeah there it is
yeah, so like you know the ground effects! Ladies and Gentlemen welcome to London
Heathrow terminal 5, where the time now is ten past three in the afternoon.
Cabin crew doors to manual, cross check! So we've just completed our flight from
Brindisi and there was a pretty good club world, sorry
Club europe service and if you're looking to do a flight
with British Airways i still think it's a good deal even
though the food's a little bit less than you would normally expect
the rest of the service is just the same as usual.
I can imagine that some of the silver and gold card holders will probably
not be quite as happy as normal because there's no
fast track, priority boarding and things like that but
to be honest it's very little from the normal.
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