British Airways deals with ‘old First’ by closing the First Class cabin on four routes

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• Phillip says:

  20 Jun20 June 15:41

  Interesting article over at Business Traveller saying that the old F seats will be sold as J! There seems to be a fair amount of contradiction!

  • Col A-B says:

    20 Jun20 June 15:50

    Ermmm…..that’s precisely what this whole thread is about.

    • AviosNewbie says:

      20 Jun20 June 16:13

      Honestly, I wasn’t clear about this either until I read the Business Traveller article. Probably I misunderstood, but this thread doesn’t specifically mention that F seats will be sold as J

    • Phillip says:

      21 Jun21 June 06:25

      I initially read this as no FIRST to be sold and the physical seats only used if more than 52 Club seats sold. I read the Business Traveller article as no FIRST to be sold but the physical seats open to Club passengers at any one point. I guess in some respects both can be true, BA just needs to clarify the technicalities behind how and when the physical FIRST seats open up.

• Chilibenny says:

  20 Jun20 June 15:47

  I know this is off topic and apologies but for those who were interested, my BlinkBox points have all posted today.

• Susan says:

  20 Jun20 June 16:35

  On Business Traveller the main BA adverts are “Get a Free upgrade from business class to First”

  Coincidence?

  • Phillip says:

    21 Jun21 June 06:19

    @Susan I believe that’s been going on for years. Not sure if it is only certain fares in Club but BA have for a long time been offering free one way upgrades to First under certain circumstances.

• john says:

  20 Jun20 June 17:14

  i havent read anywhere that these will be offered to status passengers…i imagine they will do what they do when they use a 62J 777

• Andy says:

  22 Jun22 June 02:07

  I am effected by this. If they contact me and say I am getting downgraded to J then they will have a fight on their hands. Downgrade is payable under EU261 by 75% of the First class return ticket. It doesn’t matter how far out it is, there is no mention in the regs of a time limit like there is for cancelations.
  BA made me an offer of a first class seat for x amount of money, I accepted that offer, I paid the asking price, I have a ticket (actually 2) for it.
  Now they are cancelling that offer. I can see that this isn’t even an EU261 issue. I could go down the offer and acceptance route, pure and simple a consumer protection act issue.

• Matt says:

  23 Jun23 June 03:55

  I just got reassigned seats at check in at Bangkok, when I asked about the change they told me it was an aircraft change and I had been upgraded to old first with business class service. I’m only a BA bronze so happy.

• lupek says:

  30 Jun30 June 20:50

  Confused. The YVR winter flights are once a day each way, sometimes new First, sometimes old First. Will there now be no First at all?

• lupek says:

  30 Jun30 June 20:55

  And I don’t see how there are “other flight alternatives available for a passenger who wants to fly in First.” No-one in their right mind is going to route to Vancouver via Dallas, for example, just so they can fly First when they can fly Club World direct.

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