I suspect that boarding the plane from front and back makes more of a difference, quite rare on BA.
Isn't that true of all the airlines that have more than one class?
Well yes, they’re the ones paying the big bucks.
In general, if I need to make a transfer between destinations in Europe and Hong Kong, my top 2 priorities are Aeroflot (when it operated the route to Hong Kong back in the past) and Finnair. The reason is because they provide the shortest flight route coupled with short connections to provide the minimum journey duration for a one-transfer connection. Among these 2, Aeroflot is generally cheaper so I flew on it most of the times.
It was 2016 for me, but in Dubai I had to go through security transferring from my flight from Heathrow to my flight to Colombo.
The 3 major airlines in China, Air China, China Eastern Airlines and China Southern Airlines, are based in the 3 major cities, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou respectively. I am hoping to fly on China Southern the coming winter to prevent my Aeroflot miles getting expired (I have about 41k now, just a few hundred short of a one-way redemption between London and Guangzhou) and expecting to fly a non-stop flight from London to Guangzhou (and use the high speed rail to get home). However, to my surprise, it also offers a transfer between London and Hong Kong via Beijing which is cheaper than all other airlines including direct and transferring options.
When the UK was in the EU, did it also trust EU security as well? Anyway, the issue of security is the major downside in choosing Aeroflot between Asia and Europe as the service in the air is generally good. The security at Moscow is a huge bottleneck, and the option to enter Russia during connection (if the stopover is long enough) doesn't really exist for most travellers.
I was in the security queue at Schiphol a few weeks ago - I am sure some of their security staff have a very big foot fetish - their definition of a thick sole or high heels is "curious" to say the least. There's one or two there who seem to relish pat downs too...
Firstly the size, both geographically and numerically, of the market in China is vastly bigger than that in UK.
Rather too many US citizens appear to believe that the rest of the world should conform to US practice. An example is, and l've actually seen it, them having a rant because businesses in Europe won't accept US dollars.....
Apparently lots of Canadian businesses take US dollars at 1:1. A nice little earner when the exchange rate is about 1:1.35......
Yep. When I worked in montreal we used to get loads of Americans come for the weekend (espically those old enough to drink in quebec but not in the States), they'd always just have US dollars (and complain about things being different in Canada to the states).
As an "honorary Canadian" (since the majority of my family lives there) I'm ashamed to say that we once drove from Toronto to the American side of Niagara and forgot to bring US dollars, but the shops there actually took Canadian at pretty much the interbank exchange rate - but their prices were such a rip off so it was more like half of the true value
This was when paying cash was the norm for retail transactions. Canadian 1-25c coins were accepted at par too, so it was slightly less of a rip off!
Back to BA, I was Gold for a number of years and had several very horrid experiences in long haul economy so swore to only fly BA if I could get a deal in business.
But I'm now only bronze, and just did a longhaul economy on the BA A350 because it was the only affordable flight and everything went absolutely perfectly.
I don't like exit rows because I want to have my bag under the seat in front.
