swannymere Posted 27 January, 2009 Share Posted 27 January, 2009 The bad, very bad and the very,very bad :confused: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/blog/editors_corner/article/11975/16/#top-comments-nav Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scudamore Posted 27 January, 2009 Share Posted 27 January, 2009 Funny in parts but two things i don't like: 1) The arse licking of Richard Branson. 2) The american like overfamiliarity where he feels to repeat his f::cking name relentlessly. As if he might forget. 4/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Posted 28 January, 2009 Share Posted 28 January, 2009 http://whatismatt.com/one-mans-soap-nightmare/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 28 January, 2009 Share Posted 28 January, 2009 Has anyone here travelled in club class on British Airways? I am going club class on holiday this year and want to know what to expect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jillyanne Posted 28 January, 2009 Share Posted 28 January, 2009 Has anyone here travelled in club class on British Airways? I am going club class on holiday this year and want to know what to expect. Food, drink and clouds out of the window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott_saints Posted 28 January, 2009 Share Posted 28 January, 2009 Could be a clear sky Or night time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jillyanne Posted 28 January, 2009 Share Posted 28 January, 2009 Could be a clear sky He is going 'first class', they paint clouds on the outside of the window in first class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Bates Posted 28 January, 2009 Share Posted 28 January, 2009 The bad, very bad and the very,very bad :confused: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/blog/editors_corner/article/11975/16/#top-comments-nav Anyone able to copy & paste? Company blocks yahoo. That soap one was funneh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Posted 28 January, 2009 Share Posted 28 January, 2009 Has anyone here travelled in club class on British Airways? I am going club class on holiday this year and want to know what to expect. Yes, a few times. It's not bad at all. Where are you going? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 28 January, 2009 Share Posted 28 January, 2009 Yes, a few times. It's not bad at all. Where are you going? Just Malta as usual, a nice 3 hour flight from Gatwick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jillyanne Posted 28 January, 2009 Share Posted 28 January, 2009 Anyone able to copy & paste? Company blocks yahoo. That soap one was funneh This is a letter recently received by the Virgin Atlantic customer complaints team and is currently being hailed on news blogs, such as this one on The Telegraph as possibly the funniest customer complaint letter ever. We called the Virgin Atlantic press office and they confirmed they received the letter and that Richard Branson himself called the author to thank him for the feedback. Here's the letter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dear Mr Branson REF: Mumbai to Heathrow 7th December 2008 I love the Virgin brand, I really do which is why I continue to use it despite a series of unfortunate incidents over the last few years. This latest incident takes the biscuit. Ironically, by the end of the flight I would have gladly paid over a thousand rupees for a single biscuit following the culinary journey of hell I was subjected to at the hands of your corporation. Look at this Richard. Just look at it: I imagine the same questions are racing through your brilliant mind as were racing through mine on that fateful day. What is this? Why have I been given it? What have I done to deserve this? And, which one is the starter, which one is the desert? You don't get to a position like yours Richard with anything less than a generous sprinkling of observational power so I KNOW you will have spotted the tomato next to the two yellow shafts of sponge on the left. Yes, it's next to the sponge shaft without the green paste. That's got to be the clue hasn't it. No sane person would serve a desert with a tomato would they. Well answer me this Richard, what sort of animal would serve a desert with peas in: I know it looks like a baaji but it's in custard Richard, custard. It must be the pudding. Well you'll be fascinated to hear that it wasn't custard. It was a sour gel with a clear oil on top. It's only redeeming feature was that it managed to be so alien to my palette that it took away the taste of the curry emanating from our miscellaneous central cuboid of beige matter. Perhaps the meal on the left might be the desert after all. Anyway, this is all irrelevant at the moment. I was raised strictly but neatly by my parents and if they knew I had started desert before the main course, a sponge shaft would be the least of my worries. So lets peel back the tin-foil on the main dish and see what's on offer. I'll try and explain how this felt. Imagine being a twelve year old boy Richard. Now imagine it's Christmas morning and you're sat their with your final present to open. It's a big one, and you know what it is. It's that Goodmans stereo you picked out the catalogue and wrote to Santa about. Only you open the present and it's not in there. It's your hamster Richard. It's your hamster in the box and it's not breathing. That's how I felt when I peeled back the foil and saw this: Now I know what you're thinking. You're thinking it's more of that Baaji custard. I admit I thought the same too, but no. It's mustard Richard. MUSTARD. More mustard than any man could consume in a month. On the left we have a piece of broccoli and some peppers in a brown glue-like oil and on the right the chef had prepared some mashed potato. The potato masher had obviously broken and so it was decided the next best thing would be to pass the potatoes through the digestive tract of a bird. Once it was regurgitated it was clearly then blended and mixed with a bit of mustard. Everybody likes a bit of mustard Richard. By now I was actually starting to feel a little hypoglycaemic. I needed a sugar hit. Luckily there was a small cookie provided. It had caught my eye earlier due to it's baffling presentation: It appears to be in an evidence bag from the scene of a crime. A CRIME AGAINST BLOODY COOKING. Either that or some sort of back-street underground cookie, purchased off a gun-toting maniac high on his own supply of yeast. You certainly wouldn't want to be caught carrying one of these through customs. Imagine biting into a piece of brass Richard. That would be softer on the teeth than the specimen above. I was exhausted. All I wanted to do was relax but obviously I had to sit with that mess in front of me for half an hour. I swear the sponge shafts moved at one point. Once cleared, I decided to relax with a bit of your world-famous onboard entertainment. I switched it on: I apologise for the quality of the photo, it's just it was incredibly hard to capture Boris Johnson's face through the flickering white lines running up and down the screen. Perhaps it would be better on another channel: Is that Ray Liotta? A question I found myself asking over and over again throughout the gruelling half-hour I attempted to watch the film like this. After that I switched off. I'd had enough. I was the hungriest I'd been in my adult life and I had a splitting headache from squinting at a crackling screen. My only option was to simply stare at the seat in front and wait for either food, or sleep. Neither came for an incredibly long time. But when it did it surpassed my wildest expectations: Yes! It's another crime-scene cookie. Only this time you dunk it in the white stuff. Richard.... What is that white stuff? It looked like it was going to be yoghurt. It finally dawned on me what it was after staring at it. It was a mixture between the Baaji custard and the Mustard sauce. It reminded me of my first week at university. I had overheard that you could make a drink by mixing vodka and refreshers. I lied to my new friends and told them I'd done it loads of times. When I attempted to make the drink in a big bowl it formed a cheese Richard, a cheese. That cheese looked a lot like your baaji-mustard. So that was that Richard. I didn't eat a bloody thing. My only question is: How can you live like this? I can't imagine what dinner round your house is like, it must be like something out of a nature documentary. As I said at the start I love your brand, I really do. It's just a shame such a simple thing could bring it crashing to it's knees and begging for sustenance. Yours Sincererly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master Bates Posted 28 January, 2009 Share Posted 28 January, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGTL Posted 28 January, 2009 Share Posted 28 January, 2009 Just booked Virgin to JFK, doesn't look that bad.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swannymere Posted 28 January, 2009 Author Share Posted 28 January, 2009 Jillyanne, did you even bother to click on the original post? I think you should, you might get a slight feeling of Deja Vu:rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thedelldays Posted 28 January, 2009 Share Posted 28 January, 2009 I flew BA 'world traveller' (or something) back from Mumbai last may... i think they renamed their cheapo section Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colinjb Posted 28 January, 2009 Share Posted 28 January, 2009 I flew BA 'world traveller' (or something) back from Mumbai last may... i think they renamed their cheapo section Yeah, that's pauper class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swannymere Posted 28 January, 2009 Author Share Posted 28 January, 2009 Anybody flown 'economy' with KLM recently? How bad an experience should i expect as i'm told they've gone downhill since the Air France takeover! I'll be on a Boeing 777-200 if anyone has any helpful comments feel free to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buctootim Posted 28 January, 2009 Share Posted 28 January, 2009 Anybody flown 'economy' with KLM recently? How bad an experience should i expect as i'm told they've gone downhill since the Air France takeover! I'll be on a Boeing 777-200 if anyone has any helpful comments feel free to help. This site is good. Lots of info and independent reviews. http://www.airlinequality.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamster Posted 28 January, 2009 Share Posted 28 January, 2009 Anybody flown 'economy' with KLM recently? How bad an experience should i expect as i'm told they've gone downhill since the Air France takeover! I'll be on a Boeing 777-200 if anyone has any helpful comments feel free to help. Any flight to anywhere, you need good seats. The best ones are near the toilets, as are the worst ones. Best seats for the 777-200 in green. I would suggest row 31 A,B,C or G,H,J: http://seatexpert.com/seatmap/195/KLM_Royal_Dutch_Boeing_777-200/ KLM I think let you check in over the net, so get in early: http://www.klm.com/travel/no_en/travel_tools/checkin_online/index.htm?db=db_ici&mfinfo.ici_entrypoint=menu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al de Man Posted 29 January, 2009 Share Posted 29 January, 2009 This site is good. Lots of info and independent reviews. http://www.airlinequality.com/ Excellent. I've booked with Cathay Pacific for my flight to Hong Kong this April. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LGTL Posted 29 January, 2009 Share Posted 29 January, 2009 The only problem with that airline quality website is that people are generally only sad enough to write a report when their experience was a poor one. Hence crap reviews for almost every airline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al de Man Posted 14 April, 2009 Share Posted 14 April, 2009 Time for some serious bumpage The only problem with that airline quality website is that people are generally only sad enough to write a report when their experience was a poor one. Hence crap reviews for almost every airline. I've flown back this morning and Cathay Pacific are the best carrier I've flown with so far, but Singapore weren't too shabby and their facilities may well have improved in the 12 years since I last flew with them. KLM I think let you check in over the net, so get in early: http://www.klm.com/travel/no_en/travel_tools/checkin_online/index.htm?db=db_ici&mfinfo.ici_entrypoint=menu We were able to do this and it makes for much shorter queuing times at the airport. Additionally, given it's going to be the first impression of England many people will get, Heathrow terminal 3 is an absolute f***ing embarrassment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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