British Airways Is Introducing Business Class On Domestic Flights

Business Class. Seats for people doing business, no? Prime tool of early-21st Century business? A laptop. Seat pitch on A319/320 in BA short haul fleet? Too tight to open a laptop. With the present pitch it is possible to properly open a laptop only in Row 1. Aha, but now we have the middle seat blocked with the drinks table. So put the laptop on that and twist your neck. Such a thoughtful upgrade from BA. Blocking the middle seat is nice: but just make the seat pitch longer. So do we now look forward to the SAS-style experience with the little cardboard divider to mark off the 'free sandwich seats' from the 'pay for your gruel' section at the back? Don't be surprised to see Tier Points remain exactly the same for Club World in UK as for Economy.

Free middle seat is nice, but in theory (though not in practice) you could get that cheaper by buying two economy seats - shame one can't do that and keep both of them when they're paid for. But the important bit is fast track security hassle and priority boarding, and lounge access for the non-frequent flyers.

Now that BA have made (some) of the necessary IT changes to accomodate Club Europe bookings, I have had a nose around. My first impressions are mixed. On the positive side, it could be a good way to top up the Tier Points if you are looking to be slightly short. The return of better catering and drinks are a good thing as well. However, we need to remember that until recently in economy you had free drinks and "snacks" (9 crisps in a packet or 2 biscuits, which was in my opinion a poor offering compared to for example the trains offerings). The thing that shocked me most though was the cost of some of the business tickets - I was looking at LHR to Glasgow and it was £370 one way which seemed very high. BA have started to launch some other Saturday only flights from the regions too (Bristol for example). If they were to continue this and truely become British Airways, and not London Airways :-) then the offering of Club might be something I could be tempted with, particularly as I said before for the TPs if nothing else.

Rfrn if you're so excited about food on a one hour flight i suggest you start expanding your horizons and treat yourself to nice food once in a while.... heck even a subway, beats the crap served on short haul flights, especially with airlines like BA. Id much rather have a more comfortable seat than a small terrible meal... most people can go a few hours without food...

@CraigTPA That type of calculation is what all the "Remainers"were doing before the UK referendum on the EU, when they conclusively proved that everyone would vote to stay an EU member. Turns out people aren't dessicated calculating machines, and there are other things than maximising dollars which are important to them. (I think their vote was mad, but what do I know?) Scotland had lots of vile numbers about their post-independence economy and still came within a whisker of seceding in the last independence referendum - which was much closer than any of the unionists had predicted. My guess is sentiment has hardened further since then, and the break-up of the UK is a question of when rather than if. At which point I guess many of BA's domestic flights will become international ones.