Has anyone flown British Airways with your bike recently?
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Small grocery store in Prague. I did not plan to put groceries in my backpack, but fortunately I had the backpack on and had adequate room for the stuff I bought.
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Lot of airlines getting that way, sadly. Just booked on a Canadian carrier, it was $30 (or more, depending on seat) per seat per leg. Didn't really feel like dropping $180 over three legs just to pick our seats, I guess I'll just get what they give us at checkin.
I understand charging for the premium seats, kinda sucks when it is that way for any seat.
I understand charging for the premium seats, kinda sucks when it is that way for any seat.
to me, its clearly just another way of the airlines trying to get a bit more money from each customer, and ultimately it is up to us to decide if we pay for a reserved seat or not. For me, its not worth the expense.
Guess it just comes down to profit margin and operating costs being looked at, to enable the stewerdesses etc to be paid much better---err, I mean, so that the top executives can get their usual x million bonuses because they have brought operating and employee costs down X dollars.....
yes, I know fuel costs are higher and higher, but yes, I am cynical.
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My wife and I are concerned that we will not get seats together.. It is 30+ hours of flights with 4 legs and it would be nice to stay together during the flights. We are not so concerned with location but would like to stay together.. Hopefully since our tickets were bought together we stay together.
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My wife and I are concerned that we will not get seats together.. It is 30+ hours of flights with 4 legs and it would be nice to stay together during the flights. We are not so concerned with location but would like to stay together.. Hopefully since our tickets were bought together we stay together.
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That's what I'm hoping. If not, oh well, I mostly just sleep on planes anyhow.