LOL. I take that right back Grey!

How right you are Wys.

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I guess that they were operating to Puerto Plata maybe twice a week then, meaning either a 3 or 4 day trip. As Hugh J explained primarily length of stay is down to frequency of flight.

At my first airline, Air Europe, we had longhaul charters that only went once week, meaning 7 night stays in places like Banjul, Penang, Goa, Bahrain, Maldives and Sri Lanka. But places like Orlando were daily or more, so 1 night was the norm.

Ah the old days. Where’s Danairboy?

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Just to add to what Martin said, although BA crews in Europe tend to spend 1 night at a time in a place the tours can be up to 6 days (5 nights) long, with a different city on each night.

The Airbus guys I was with today were doing

Day1 LHR NCE LHR STR
Day2 STR LHR AMS LHR DUS
Day3 DUS LHR BCN
Day4 BCN LHR CDG
Day5 CDG LHR LIS
Day6 LIS LHR MAN LHR

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This guy seems to have an ‘access all areas’ pass!

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For a charter 767 it looks smart, although that doesn’t look anything like the 36″ seat pitch they are claiming for star class premier. Interesting that although both cabins have a 2-3-2 config (with a different pitch) they have chosen different seats for each cabin.

The thing I don’t like is the colours of that lighting. Do you know at what stages of the flight it would be as shown in the photo. Those pink lights would drive you mad if you were try to read a paper, and the turquoise would make your food look very strange colours.

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You’re absolutely right Mark L.

Full fare domestic tickets are known as Business UK fares and show up on boarding cards as C class. This has been discussed in previous threads and is due to the way the fare is structured being the same as Club Europe.

I think the Emerald fare quoted would be for a non-changeable/non-transferrable/non-refundable ticket, so can’t be compared for price to a fully flexible ticket.

I appreciate Mongu that you are disappointed that you didn’t get what you felt entitled to, but qualifying fares and lounge entitlement are quite clear in Executive Club guides and BA and Oneworld airline websites. Furthermore the route with the highest ratio of Premier and Gold card holders is LHR-EDI and the most used lounge in Europe (outside London) is EDI, so the benefit must be there.

Maybe a chat with one of the Executive Club helplines would clarify the matter.

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I wondered about that one Mark.

I used to fly regularily that route on business about 17 years ago on Gill Air Shorts 330’s.

It seldom carried more than about 6 or 8 pax at a time then, not surprisingly it didn’t last long.

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I see where you are coming from MarkL, but the problem is lack of Airbus aircraft due to problems with a new engineering computer system.

The 4 321’s don’t cover the shortfall of 320’s and 319’s at LHR so a 737 has been brought in. The Titan wet-lease has to be kept for a little longer anyway, and is for some reason cheaper if it operates from LGW, so it was sent down there and the 737 kept at LHR.

The idea of a Airbus fleet at LGW has been put on hold for the forseeable future.

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