If I were you Id fly with an airline offering decent fares and one who actually might get my bag to my destination! Can you tell Im not to happy with BA?

Out Friday evening, back Sunday night, £75 all in. Cheaper than the train at those times.

Delays? Fantastic! More time to spend drinking in the lounge. My last visit to LGW I was on a £35 single fare and drank at LEAST twice the value of that during my 3 hour delay.

I’m as displeased with BA as the next guy, but whilst I’m making a net gain from my trips courtesy of my AA status, I’ll keep flying them 😉

I know they’ve done domestics before for short periods of time, but haven’t seen one for a while. Any particular reason why they are on this month 1L?

Can’t see them in the schedule at a quick glance. I’ll take a look tomorrow and see if I can get on one from MAN as I need to pop home for a bit at some point this month, and the 321 is the only type in the BA fleet I’ve not been on yet!

BA is sadly a mess at the moment. Despite having lots of options to spend my money and miles on flights over this summer I am just not going to. Bags WILL misconnect, and an hour delay is regarded as par for the course. Start complaining when you get to a 3 or 4 hour delay, anything less than that is just not worth bothering about.

Seriously folks, avoid BA over the summer. If you HAVE to fly them, make sure you don’t check a bag. Buy your stuff the other end if you can’t fit enough into a bag that conforms to UK hand luggage rules. It has got that bad. The strength of the pound is such that it makes more sense to carry your essentials with you, and buy the rest at your destination. Anything else is not worth worrying about getting lost in the bowels of Heathrow.

If you are connecting onto a BA flight over the summer, 2.5 hours really is your minimum connection time, any less than that and you are asking for trouble.

This might sound mildly hysterical, but anyone who flys BA regularly (like I do) will know I’m not spouting hyperbole. 🙁

With a lot of schedule alterations taking place to their existing LHR operation to accomodate the change.

Some good and some bad, but we won’t know for sure what they’re going to do for a few weeks. Looks like a loss of a LAX and a JFK frequency. At the same time the dayflight from BOS to LHR will be replaced by a dayflight from MIA instead.

Great news for those of us who enjoy quick weekend breaks in South Beach! 😀

I saw this at LGW from the monorail the other day and I must say it looked much nicer than the normal White livery. Very striking indeed.

But then I guess we should credit Star for that rather than White!

Many moons ago?

I think not, Aurigny only stopped running it last year!

Manx2 are just filling the gap in what was, I understand, a very well fulfilled summer market.

The IOM connection is a little tenuous though. Theres a bit of a banking connection to the region, so a connection to the IOM may well be supported by some of the local businesses?