Having your (M&S) cake and eating it

Discussion in 'British Airways | Executive Club' started by GnarlyOldGoatDude, Apr 5, 2017.

  1. GnarlyOldGoatDude

    GnarlyOldGoatDude Active Member

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    Two opposing articles on the front page today.
    Exhibit A, Craig spreads the gospel of risk aversion by saying that BA is "seemingly in a race to the bottom" - extoling the virtues of other programmes. Sage stuff.

    Exhibit B, Joe takes an all expenses paid trip for the 26 mile as-the-crow-BA2944*-flies journey from Gatwick to Heathrow. We are tantalised by pictures of 3 bottles of Henriot in an ice bucket and freshly made porridge. Does that sound like a race to the bottom?
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    Gentleman, what are we meant to believe?


    *BA2944 which is confusingly the 6 day a week early evening A319/A320 flight from Gatwick to Edinburgh. I tried to use flightradar24.com to see the route of the charter, but it only shows the normal scheduled operations.
     
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  2. JoeD

    JoeD Well-Known Member

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    Haha!! What can I say - we cater for a broad church!

    I think my personal views on BA (cf Ryanair) are clear enough to merit me being nice... occasionally ;).

    As this is a public forum, I'll let you in on a secret - I was unable to attend personally, so sadly missed out on the (no doubt delectable) porridge/champagne combo. InsideFlyer was well represented though and there are some (fairly) interesting developments to share.
     
  3. Ian

    Ian Active Member

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    The flight was BA9244, and looks like it went up to the north of Scotland, turned around over Stornaway and then I got bored of watching it on Flightradar24.

    Joe - next time you need a stand-in to eat porridge and drink champagne, let me know ;)
     
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    JoeD Well-Known Member

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    Consider it done! - although I maintain first refusal, as I enjoy both porridge (in moderation) and champagne (whether in moderation or not) a great deal!
     
  5. GnarlyOldGoatDude

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    It seems I've invented a "new thing" with the Champorridge combo.
     
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    JoeD Well-Known Member

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    Breakfast of champions! (or Points/Miles collectors anyway...)
     

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