Weekly Review: April 7, 2018

@ 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!!!!!!

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!)