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This year for my summer vacations, as usually in Italy...To visit my grandparents. I got a really nice fare with British Airways, I was really excited, because I had never went on BA.
After booking and paying I was told seats could be assigned just on online check-in 24h befor dep.
That evening I was almost ready, I was just missing my boarding pass, and here we go Italy!
BOOKING, PHONE SERVICE, ONLINE CHECK IN.
It was the first time I did Online Check In, I still like all the airport ritual... but It was fine. On the phone, BA agents (all latinamerican call center is based in Brazil) were good, they generally speaked fluent spanish or english.
Online Check In was really fast in 15min I had seats assinged... really good ones... Not even a min passed when Check In opened that i was already online.
RATING: 95/100
The day finally came.... I left my city (240km from Mexico City) at 3.30pm.... on a bus serviced directly to the Airport.... I got there at 6.30pm, just in time for the 3hrs reccomendated time... But I headed to the fast bag drop BA counter.
Airport-Ground Service.
It was so great walking ahead of everyone on the line. I showed my boarding pass, and was headed to a counter right beside First. I has just 1 person ahead. The lady there was really kind she had a nice big smile and said:
"Buenas Tardes, can I have your boarding pass?"
-"Sure, here it is."
"Is this your bag young man?""Ok, it goes directly to Rome, and that's It, boarding at 8:35, have a nice trip, Adios"
5 minutes.... and I had about 1h25m free, I met there with some family, and headed to the gate area.
Rating: 100/100
Just a quickie duty-free buy, some earphones and I headed right to the gate. Boarding was began, just in time, World Traveller seats from 30 to 36. I Had 36A.
AS USUAL MEXICAN AIRPORT AUTHORITIES THINK SPOTTING AIRPLANES OR TAKE PICS TO THE MONITOR WITH THE SCHEDULE AND DEP TIME IS A THREAT.
So no pics.
Lovely Airport. 24h service for huge Mexico City. I'm glad the airport's website has lots of nice safe pictures!!
But the flight information:
Airline:British Airways (BA)
Flight number: BA242
Origin: Lic Benito Juarez Internacional, CIUDAD DE MEXICO (MMMX)
Destination : Heathrow International Airport, London, United Kingdom .
Distance: 4815 nm, 5541 mi, 8917 km
Scheduled departure time: 21:35
Actual departure time:21.55
Scheduled flight time: hours minutes
Class of Travel: Economy Class
Seat: 35A
Aircraft: B747-400
On Board Service, Crew, General Flight Experience.
Boarding the Aircraft... Nice to be back in a 747. A nice warm welcome on board and I passed Club World cabin and got the the first section of World Traveller. Flight seemed empty. People looking for empty seats, so as soon as doors were closed... get a nice seat. Since I love window I wasn't interested on the middle seats... but I was hoping to have the 3 seats for myself.
My seat. 35A.
We boarded the airplane 1 hour before the departure... I thought it must be British punctuality, and they want to leave just in time.
When we started the taxi to the runway 5R it was 9.50
I had a travel partner in the aisle so we had plenty of space for our belongings in the middle seat.
We took off at 10.00 pm. We had a really nice amenity kit with socks, shades, a tiny toothbrush and toothpaste and a refreshing towel.
And captain welcomed us on board. Told that our cruise altitude was going to be 35000ft (during the Atlantic cross we climbed until 37000ft) and our speed 500kts.
I watch a lot the in flight map on the AVOD.
By the way it was great. Lot's of movies, Tv Shows, Special Reportage about BA's aircraft maintenance, etc.
I started watching Marley and Me. When the dinner arrived.
Really nice service. And what I really liked is that crew passed after a little time to gather the trash and the trays, you had time enough to eat but you weren't waiting for ages...
After that coffee camed...
Our Route for tonight....
A little sleep, and in the middle of the Atlantic we had already daylight. I was waiting anxiously for breakfast.
I had lots of chat in the galley with some of the crew. They were awesome. A senior Flight Attendant, was on my city 1 month before... on my neighborhood.... for a wedding!
The Mexican crew was also so kind... we had a lot of chatter, they told me about their experience on British, and how it's a really good product for the airline to have home based crew for their flights' destinations.
And breakfast arrived 2 hours before arrival.
Some coffee, a croissant, yogurt, a pancake and orange juice...
Still cloudy over the atlantic.... we hope it clears to have a view of Ireland.
After breakfast, a stop in the Toilette, and I got my shoes on back again.
The End of The Pond.... Irish Coast. On what it seemed a lovely sunny Irish Sunday.
We soon began Our descent, and start flying over some English Cities.
Captain Turned the seatbelt on sign, and this was our cabin that morning. First section of World Traveller.
You can see Club World Cabin ahead.
Once our initial approach began, Captain told us that as usually we had traffic ahead to land, So our final approach was awesome..... "he turned left, and then right, and back left again, and again right....."
We had a aerial tour in London and surroundings.
And we finally got to land... Here's the vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vETPy86Ko8
B747 spoilers.
Taxiing to our gate on Terminal 5.
Crew welcomes us to London..."ladies and gentleman, girls and boys"... "It's Sunday May the 24th...."On a very British way.. We landed at 13.45
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjSiQux_AY0
Leaving the airplane... With 2 hours before my 2nd flight.
Flight Rating
Service 100/100
Food 95/100
Comfort 90/100
Punctuality 85/100
Flight Experience 100/100
Total Flight Rating 94/100
After passing Security, And having my liquids "cheked" on a funny machine... I was on the gate area.... My gate wasn't displayed yet... so i visited some stores and did some spotting.
My gate was displayed.A17.. I headed there... and spotted my A320.
Boarding Started. I and was one of the first ones to board the plane... I had the 3rd row of Eurotraveller(online check-in result... nice seats!)
Flight information:
Airline:British Airways (BA)
Flight number: BA554
Origin: HeathrowInternational Airport , London , United Kingdom lace> .(EGLL)
Destination : Aeroporto Leonardo Da Vinci-Fiumicino, Roma Italia.
Distance: 781 nm,899 mi , 1446 km
Scheduled departure time: 15.40
Actual departure time:16.00
Scheduled flight time: 2 hours 30 minutes
Class of Travel: Economy Class
Seat: 7A
Aircraft: A320
My seat 7A
Really nice legroom also on medium-short haul flight.
I'm 1.80m and i was really comfy.
We began taxi to our runway.
LHR traffic.
Our turn to take-off... El Al 747.... with a tiny colleague(BMI?), both ready to take off after us...
PART TWO AHEAD
After booking and paying I was told seats could be assigned just on online check-in 24h befor dep.
That evening I was almost ready, I was just missing my boarding pass, and here we go Italy!
BOOKING, PHONE SERVICE, ONLINE CHECK IN.
It was the first time I did Online Check In, I still like all the airport ritual... but It was fine. On the phone, BA agents (all latinamerican call center is based in Brazil) were good, they generally speaked fluent spanish or english.
Online Check In was really fast in 15min I had seats assinged... really good ones... Not even a min passed when Check In opened that i was already online.
RATING: 95/100
The day finally came.... I left my city (240km from Mexico City) at 3.30pm.... on a bus serviced directly to the Airport.... I got there at 6.30pm, just in time for the 3hrs reccomendated time... But I headed to the fast bag drop BA counter.
Airport-Ground Service.
It was so great walking ahead of everyone on the line. I showed my boarding pass, and was headed to a counter right beside First. I has just 1 person ahead. The lady there was really kind she had a nice big smile and said:
"Buenas Tardes, can I have your boarding pass?"
-"Sure, here it is."
"Is this your bag young man?""Ok, it goes directly to Rome, and that's It, boarding at 8:35, have a nice trip, Adios"
5 minutes.... and I had about 1h25m free, I met there with some family, and headed to the gate area.
Rating: 100/100
Just a quickie duty-free buy, some earphones and I headed right to the gate. Boarding was began, just in time, World Traveller seats from 30 to 36. I Had 36A.
AS USUAL MEXICAN AIRPORT AUTHORITIES THINK SPOTTING AIRPLANES OR TAKE PICS TO THE MONITOR WITH THE SCHEDULE AND DEP TIME IS A THREAT.
So no pics.
Lovely Airport. 24h service for huge Mexico City. I'm glad the airport's website has lots of nice safe pictures!!
But the flight information:
Airline:British Airways (BA)
Flight number: BA242
Origin: Lic Benito Juarez Internacional, CIUDAD DE MEXICO (MMMX)
Destination : Heathrow International Airport, London, United Kingdom .
Distance: 4815 nm, 5541 mi, 8917 km
Scheduled departure time: 21:35
Actual departure time:21.55
Scheduled flight time: hours minutes
Class of Travel: Economy Class
Seat: 35A
Aircraft: B747-400
On Board Service, Crew, General Flight Experience.
Boarding the Aircraft... Nice to be back in a 747. A nice warm welcome on board and I passed Club World cabin and got the the first section of World Traveller. Flight seemed empty. People looking for empty seats, so as soon as doors were closed... get a nice seat. Since I love window I wasn't interested on the middle seats... but I was hoping to have the 3 seats for myself.
My seat. 35A.
We boarded the airplane 1 hour before the departure... I thought it must be British punctuality, and they want to leave just in time.
When we started the taxi to the runway 5R it was 9.50
I had a travel partner in the aisle so we had plenty of space for our belongings in the middle seat.
We took off at 10.00 pm. We had a really nice amenity kit with socks, shades, a tiny toothbrush and toothpaste and a refreshing towel.
And captain welcomed us on board. Told that our cruise altitude was going to be 35000ft (during the Atlantic cross we climbed until 37000ft) and our speed 500kts.
I watch a lot the in flight map on the AVOD.
By the way it was great. Lot's of movies, Tv Shows, Special Reportage about BA's aircraft maintenance, etc.
I started watching Marley and Me. When the dinner arrived.
Really nice service. And what I really liked is that crew passed after a little time to gather the trash and the trays, you had time enough to eat but you weren't waiting for ages...
After that coffee camed...
Our Route for tonight....
A little sleep, and in the middle of the Atlantic we had already daylight. I was waiting anxiously for breakfast.
I had lots of chat in the galley with some of the crew. They were awesome. A senior Flight Attendant, was on my city 1 month before... on my neighborhood.... for a wedding!
The Mexican crew was also so kind... we had a lot of chatter, they told me about their experience on British, and how it's a really good product for the airline to have home based crew for their flights' destinations.
And breakfast arrived 2 hours before arrival.
Some coffee, a croissant, yogurt, a pancake and orange juice...
Still cloudy over the atlantic.... we hope it clears to have a view of Ireland.
After breakfast, a stop in the Toilette, and I got my shoes on back again.
The End of The Pond.... Irish Coast. On what it seemed a lovely sunny Irish Sunday.
We soon began Our descent, and start flying over some English Cities.
Captain Turned the seatbelt on sign, and this was our cabin that morning. First section of World Traveller.
You can see Club World Cabin ahead.
Once our initial approach began, Captain told us that as usually we had traffic ahead to land, So our final approach was awesome..... "he turned left, and then right, and back left again, and again right....."
We had a aerial tour in London and surroundings.
And we finally got to land... Here's the vid.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vETPy86Ko8
B747 spoilers.
Taxiing to our gate on Terminal 5.
Crew welcomes us to London..."ladies and gentleman, girls and boys"... "It's Sunday May the 24th...."On a very British way.. We landed at 13.45
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjSiQux_AY0
Leaving the airplane... With 2 hours before my 2nd flight.
Flight Rating
Service 100/100
Food 95/100
Comfort 90/100
Punctuality 85/100
Flight Experience 100/100
Total Flight Rating 94/100
After passing Security, And having my liquids "cheked" on a funny machine... I was on the gate area.... My gate wasn't displayed yet... so i visited some stores and did some spotting.
My gate was displayed.A17.. I headed there... and spotted my A320.
Boarding Started. I and was one of the first ones to board the plane... I had the 3rd row of Eurotraveller(online check-in result... nice seats!)
Flight information:
Airline:British Airways (BA)
Flight number: BA554
Origin: Heathrow
Destination : Aeroporto Leonardo Da Vinci-Fiumicino, Roma Italia.
Distance: 781 nm,
Scheduled departure time: 15.40
Actual departure time:16.00
Scheduled flight time: 2 hours 30 minutes
Class of Travel: Economy Class
Seat: 7A
Aircraft: A320
My seat 7A
Really nice legroom also on medium-short haul flight.
I'm 1.80m and i was really comfy.
We began taxi to our runway.
LHR traffic.
Our turn to take-off... El Al 747.... with a tiny colleague(BMI?), both ready to take off after us...
PART TWO AHEAD
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