Saturday, 13 June 2009

• British Airways World Traveller Plus

  British Airway Boeing 777
  Toronto (YYZ) to London Heathrow (LHR)
  Flight BA98
  http://www.britishairways.com

  World Traveller sounds like a fancy name but it's really British Airways' way of saying coach and it's not that great.  Somehow they assigned my seat to someone else so I didn't have a seat for 10 minutes while they try to find out what happened.  Luckily I was upgraded to World Traveller Plus which is like coach but with better sound cancelling headphones, better chairs with leg rests and high angle of recline, and a little more leg room.

  Here's the Boeing 777 that I took to London.  It's a 6 hour flight to London from Toronto and it's international so they serve meals onboard - a rare things on North American domestic flights.

  

  Here's a view of First class in case you were curious:

  

  It was almost empty and I still didn't get to sit there.  It was very crowded in the coach and coach plus.

  My meal:

  

  The salad up close

  

  The roasted peppers were nice.  It was soggy and cold.  The beans on the bottom didn't suit my tastes since they were sour so I didn't eat it.

  Beef, yorkshire pudding, mashed potatoes, and steamed vegetables:

  

  Beef was chunky and moist.  The pudding was dry but editable.  I still wonder why it has the word pudding in it when it doesn't even look like a pudding.  Mashed potato was buttered but generally watery.  I ate it all but it wasn't that great.

  Apple turnover:

  

  Yeah, that doesn't look like apple and I was even sure myself when I first saw it.  But I tasted it and it was apple.

  All this while enjoying the little on demand entertainment.  Nice.

  

  The food was no where at the quality of American Airline's domestic business class inflight dining.  It's still ediable but not something I'd go out to recommend.  Try not to be picky while on the plane or bring snacks.

  Eric's Tummy Points: 1.5 out of 5

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