From: hummingbird on
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:34:02 GMT 'Jim Ley'
posted this onto rec.travel.air:

>On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:19:49 +0000, hummingbird
><RHBIYDTNPPAX(a)spammotel.com> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:06:36 GMT 'Jim Ley'
>>posted this onto rec.travel.air:
>>
>>>On 26 Feb 2007 16:52:42 -0800, "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Inadequate seating: You asked for a small seat. You bargained for a
>>>>small seat. There are bigger seats available but you chose not to pay
>>>>for one. People have complained a long time about small seats in
>>>>Economy, but when given a choice between slightly larger seats at a
>>>>slightly higher cost in Economy the vast majority choose cost over
>>>>comfort. So you get what you pay for.
>>>
>>>Especially as it was a BA long haul flight, so there was going to be
>>>an Economy Plus seat available without paying the full Business class
>>>fare.
>>
>>I was not offered a seat of that description when booking.
>>The only airline I know who offer that to Asia is Eva.

>I think in future, you should definately get yourself a travel agent
>as you don't appear to be able to sort out travel yourself without the
>problems you've described.

Rotfl.

>BA0010 definately has a World Traveller
>Plus cabin and a travel agent would've found it (quite how you managed
>to not find it is a surprise to me)

My ticket was already classified as World Traveller and I saw no seats
in the main cabin which were not ordinary economy or business class.
IOW nothing in between.

Any other bright ideas?
From: hummingbird on
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:39:02 GMT 'Jim Ley'
posted this onto rec.travel.air:

>On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:16:00 +0000, hummingbird
><RHBIYDTNPPAX(a)spammotel.com> wrote:
>>Wrong. *I did not ask for a small seat*.
>>The choices available to me at booking were economy, business or
>>first. BA do not offer "slightly larger seats at a slightly higher
>>cost in Economy" as you say.
>
>Yes they do "World Traveller Plus" and it's available on BA0010, just
>do a search on the BA website, your incompetence in finding this is a
>good illustration of why many of the problems you found were down to
>your mistake in not getting a travel agent when not capable of doing
>the research yourself.

You are obviously a joker. Further comment is largely unnecessary.


>http://www.britishairways.com/travel/pop_cabininfo/public/en_gb

Recall that I booked through Expedia.
Here's what that link says:

"Premier Economy
A quiet, separate economy cabin that offers an extra 7" leg room,
greater seat recline and your own seatback video screen and in-seat
laptop power. World Traveller Plus offers extra space at an economy
price."

My seat already had its own seatback video screen and in-seat laptop
power. I made no criticism of inadequate leg room or greater seat
recline.
From: Jim Ley on
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:00:26 +0000, hummingbird
<RHBIYDTNPPAX(a)spammotel.com> wrote:
>>BA0010 definately has a World Traveller
>>Plus cabin and a travel agent would've found it (quite how you managed
>>to not find it is a surprise to me)
>
>My ticket was already classified as World Traveller and I saw no seats
>in the main cabin which were not ordinary economy or business class.
>IOW nothing in between.

WOLRD TRAVELLER _PLUS_ - you failed to do the research about the seats
available to you, you cocked up, use a travel agent in future, or get
better at searching yourself.

Jim.
From: Mike Hunt on
hummingbird wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:06:36 GMT 'Jim Ley'
> posted this onto rec.travel.air:
>
>
>>On 26 Feb 2007 16:52:42 -0800, "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Inadequate seating: You asked for a small seat. You bargained for a
>>>small seat. There are bigger seats available but you chose not to pay
>>>for one. People have complained a long time about small seats in
>>>Economy, but when given a choice between slightly larger seats at a
>>>slightly higher cost in Economy the vast majority choose cost over
>>>comfort. So you get what you pay for.
>>
>>Especially as it was a BA long haul flight, so there was going to be
>>an Economy Plus seat available without paying the full Business class
>>fare.
>
>
> I was not offered a seat of that description when booking.
> The only airline I know who offer that to Asia is Eva.

That is possibly becaused you used Expedia.
BA have E+ seats
From: Mike Hunt on
hummingbird wrote:
>
> My ticket was already classified as World Traveller and I saw no seats
> in the main cabin which were not ordinary economy or business class.
> IOW nothing in between.

WT and WT PLUS are NOT the same thing, hence the "PLUS".
Just because you didn't see them doesn't mean they don't exist.
Ask GWB about WMDs.