Weekly Review: April 7, 2018

Hoping to see detailed reviews on your flights to Europe and Seychelles (and which currency you used for them) and the detailed review of your hotels in both Paris and the Seychelles.Bon voyage!

So, yet again you’ll go on BA, slag off it’s first class. State that it’s first class is one of the worlds best business class products. Some of the things you write about BA is very insulting to both the airline and the UK. If you don’t like it, then stop coming. Your reviews on BA are boring, repetitive and not relevant. Every time I travel First, the crew are lovely, bed is comfortable, food is great.

Well David maybe you’re not as well travelled as Lucky. IMO it’s refreshing to have his views on all the airlines.

Maybe you should try something different eh

No mention anywhere of the revised Air France-KLM Flying Blue program which took place on the 1st April? I guess any article would be written from the point of view of Delta AirLines FFP. The pros & cons of the new FB for different types of travellers etc?

@David Spot on! I was going to say the same but you beat me to it.

Elijah, actually I am as well travelled, so I do know what I’m talking about. The Points Guy has more and better reviews. Will stop reading this blog.

Thank God you said that David, he is very anti BA and seems to be anti British. 2 of my friends that also read OMAAT think this. Also, it has started to be mainly credit card advertising instead of flight,lounge or hotel reviews. Boring. Won’t bother reading the BA review as it’s going to be the same old biased story. I flew BA First in February from ORD-LHR and it was great.

Lucky does consistently bash BA.

An example: he never praised them for being one of the few legacy carriers to resist the move to 10-abreast seating in long haul economy, while over the years some of his favourite airlines rushed to densify. When BA finally gave in and recently announced its leisure fleet at LGW were going 10-abreast, he immediately attacked them, using it as an opportunity (finally) to praise them for having held 9-abreast for so long but now sharply criticising them for being as bad as the rest.

Meanwhile, BA (which pioneered lie-flat beds in J) has had beds across its entire long haul fleet, no exceptions, since the death of Concorde. Lucky never mentions that but instead heaps praise on carriers like United, which has just a handful of planes fitted with Polaris seats, or American, whose best J product is better than BA’s, but whose fleet of wide bodies *still* includes planes with angled seats in J. In 2018.

If it were BA, that fact would be mentioned every time there was a story about American (just as every mention of BA’s 1st class comes with the tired old joke that it’s “the world’s best business class” - though, in fairness, finally, this post didn’t crack that “joke”, and Lucky has left it to the comments section for the cliche to emerge).

Actually, I don’t expect Lucky to be objective. He is passionate about flying, and passionate means bias. That’s ok - it’s part of what gives OMAAT its unique personality. And I am not in the market for US credit cards, nor do I play points (I’m here for the reviews). And nor do I pay a penny for all his work. So I gratefully accept what’s on offer, bias, prejudice, passion and all.

And given what one of the guest posters recently wrote about BA, there are clearly people with even more passionate hatreds than Lucky.

On your one-way trip to LHR you’ll miss one of the most important things that BA does well - the First Wing at LHR. LHR is a hell hole of an airport, but the Forst Wing is far and away the most civilised way of accessing the airport. Arrivals and transfers won’t get that. But it’s worth bearing in mind that for those of us who use LHR as a base, it’s a *huge* benefit.

(Then again, it’s quiet and tranquil, just like a library, so Lucky may actually hate it!)

Completely agree David, it is very boring and repetitive how Ben keeps bashing BA, London. Even before he flies.
I’ve flown First on BA many many times, and yes there are more spacious cabins on other airlines such as Etihad, but I always get good service, comfortable bed and excellent food and drink.
If you don’t like BA, then don’t fly with them.

Off topic, but I just realized that the OMAAT web site is using HTTPS now.
Well done for helping keep the web safe!

Ben, when you are in Paris with Ford you really should go to lunch at a 3-Michelin star restaurant! I know you would love it!! I can't recommend L'Epicure (in the hotel Le Bristol) enough, it was one of the top 2 meals of my life.

If you are defending BA, then you have a bias towards them. So you do exactly what you accuse Lucky of. Slowskis.

@Bratty

No, I’m afraid that “logic” doesn’t work. Have a think, and come back if you still don’t understand.

Ok Paul. I will come back. You wait right here. But read my comment slowly next time. Then process. Then read again. Then process again.

@ bratty, as per my previous comment on here, I’ve been fortunate to travel in First class on many airlines. Although BA is definitely not the best ( in my opinion the new Emirates suite is), there is no point in reading the review when it gets published as there is a distaste of the airline from the author. That is all...

I thought Lucky was flying Air Seychelles oh the way back? Our was it the way there? Either way, I REALLY want to see that review 🙂

I don't find anything wrong with not loving an airline (be it BA or any other) yet flying it because of convenience or schedule or availability...
I am not a fan of BA either, but it's the only airline that offers direct flights from London to the Seychelles, so - as they say - beggars are not choosers...I am looking forward to Lucky's review of that flight (assuming they are flying to the Seychelles direct from London)...
And I personally am looking forward to Lucky's reviews, even of the products he reviewed before... So what if he's done it before? ...When I am planning my trips, I always look for the most r-e-c-e-n-t reviews of a particular hotel or airline, so I wouldn't mind yet another review of BA...you don't always have to love something to review it...have an awesome trip, Lucky!

@ T.

What is this new fashion of separating every sentence with an ellipsis...?First Myles, now you...

Or is it that, maybe, you are all the same person?...And simply don't know what an ellipsis is for...?...

I just don't understand why people want multiple identities on an anonymised blog...Not that I care particularly...I suppose all of these commenters could in fact be Lucky himself...What do I know...?...Other than that this horrific misuse of ellipses is second in irritation value only to those people who think it's smart to use multiple exclamation marks!!!!!!! Even when it isn't an exclamation!!!!!!

@ The nice Paul -
Not so nice, are we?...especially with someone who disagrees with you on substance...
I am not Myles or Lucky for that matter, and I have been commenting on various posts here for a while - under the same monicker, same ellipses...
If you must know - I find that this punctuation mimics my real life cadence when I let the end of a sentence trail a little...that's all...now, may we return back to something more valuable to other readers than someone's use of punctuation?