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Yeah, I was quoted £158 on Skyscanner, but by the time I went to the SAS website it was £220!
BA was slightly cheaper at £190!
Not exactly cheap, but the best price I could find!
I don't normally buy stuff onboard, especially coffee, for such a short flight, I think I'll be getting coffee from Pret before I board.
Interesting you say that, when I flew BA LH a few years ago, I thought their coffee was really good, better than VS!
It's complicated, I'm not paying for flights, so I get what I'm given! Not that I have a problem with that, they are free flights afterall!
I flew Norwegian from Copenhagen to Gatwick, a few years ago, and I was impressed.
The only bad thing I can see, is that they use 737s, with a dodgy layout, so some seats don't have windows!
But they fly from Gatwick not Heathrow, which is less convenient for me, and the flight times were a bit of a PiTA, and going to Stockholm they weren't a huge amount cheaper than BA!
Fair enough on the coffee thing, it depends on the journey for me (if it started the day before and I was awake all night, then coffee on board, if I've had time before it and a flight at a good hour, I may not, depending on flight length) but I do love my coffee! I average at least 5 cups a day, again depending on what I'm doing (a 16+ hour day of bashing or a full day at work needs lots of coffee, a day at home but with a fair bit to do I can manage on 3) and the size of the cups varies. As does how strong it is, how much sugar is in it...
If you're not paying for the flights, fair game, but I would be trying to influence the booker using experience of different airlines etc. Just as well I travel solo eh?
Well it is much newer than a 737 and has a bigger cockpit.
Cockpit size has no real bearing on passengers though! I must admit I was surprised how small a 737-800 cockpit is, but once you're sat down surely you don't need a mansion?! A few extra inches to get in/out would no doubt be better though. Is there actually much difference between Boeing and Airbus with cockpit size?
And is wider, so as a passenger you get larger overhead bins and either a wider seat or a wider aisle depending on the airline (both are good) and large overhead bins. And you have the Airbus control philosophy which allows for things a pilot can't cope with - the pilot of the plane that set down in the Hudson did say he reckoned that with having to manually push the boundaries of a stall (rather than just pulling back hard and the aircraft doing what it knew it could) he couldn't have done it in a Boeing.
Only problem is "if it ain't Airbus, I'm not going" doesn't rhyme
Ah yes, "if it's not Boeing, I ain't going" is one of my favourite expressions. I'm going to be suffering an Airbus tomorrow for about 15 hours (not including the time on board before/after) which goes against my Boeing desires, but flight times etc ruled the decision making on this occasion. 4 out of 5 flights on this trip will have been on Boeing craft, not bad for a trip to the other side of the world.
As for overhead luggage lockers, I didn't see them being bigger on my Airbus craft in October than on newer Boeing craft. Admittedly I paid little attention on those BA flights to them as my bag comfortably fitted under the seat in front of me. Just as well, given how on both flights to/from Tallinn BA made repeated announcements about asking passengers to put their luggage in the hold for free. I even got an email asking me to do so before I got to Heathrow! I already had hold luggage anyway, so it wasn't an issue for me.
I also didn't notice an aisle on the A321 that was wider than on a 737-800. If it was indeed wider it wasn't noticeable to me!