As much as I complain,moan and despair about things in this world- or at least that's how I appear to others, while on the contrary I always insist that it's only my perfectionist nature that causes even the little imperfection to cause disturbance and a sense of frustration,and I am in fact very proud of my nature capable of finding joy in the most simple of matters of this beautiful world-I also love to praise people and things that are good and well, praiseworthy. So, one article dedicated to my british airways flight experience.
4 stars out of 5 though. One star lost to that imbecile at the boarding area. Typical idiot trying to sound strict without an idea of what he was asking or listening to while cracking stale jokes for the amusement of his female colleagues on adjacent desks. Ok, from here on it was all a pleasant time. The plane cabin was clean and the seats were taut and comfortable unlike the ones in Air India(AI) where you sink into the seats after sitting, not to mention the untidy seats. Airhostesses were quite courteous and spiffy too. Now that's what I thought they ought to be before I had my first flight with AI. The crew is lost in their own world once the plane starts flight and one of them was literally shouting at one poor old woman for trying to get to the restroom while plane was descending. Right from where she was seated. And the AI food sucked too. Completely.
Food in ba- that is one of the best I've tasted. Getting every meal neatly packed and labelled halal over it was so reassuring. And I had about 4 meals over the course of the long flight and each one was different in substance but similar in quality-excellent. I think I told everyone I met after that flight about the food in BA.
Entertainment- blew me away. It was perhaps fitting that I got to watch the Heath Ledger masterpiece in The Dark Knight aboard this wonderful airways. Also watched Taking of Pelham, and Hangover. There were a few other very recent movies and I saw on their website that the movies change every month, which is in absolute and complete contrast to AI which had the same old worn out movies during both my trips 6 months apart.
There was one another experience too. In the night when everyone was asleep, I woke up momentarily to pull the sheet over me when I saw one of the airhostesses had come out for something-hair let down. In the half asleep state of mine, it felt like some angel had glided in into the aeroplane from the outside. Again,stark contrast to the haggard crew of the AI.
It was so great flying with ba, that when one of my co-passenger asked for help filling out the customer satisfaction form, I took it from him and filled it out myself with 5 stars in every column and also asked for extra card for extra compliments. Especially the food.
The london layover was funny. It felt like an Indian airport. Many of the shops had Indians at the desk and there were a lot of passengers that were Indians and even the crew at the flight entry check-in was and Indian lady and a sardarji. I mean, that was amazing. The connecting flight from London to chicago was no different. Pleasant crew, amazing food and neat cabin. And this time a scottish dude was accomodated beside my seat cos his tv wasn't working in his original seat. After sometime we talked for quite some time and it was fun.
All in all, an amazing experience, thoroughly pleasant and left me wanting to aboard the return trip as son as possible