Ba flight-gatwick to Orlando

[Verity Chambers]

Has anyone flown this recently? Can u tell me about the entertainment, service? Food etc? Thanks in advance

 

[BethEJo]

Hi Verity! I just flew this route this month and have no complaints Entertainment was very good - lots of films to choose from I personally had lots I wanted to watch and not enough time!

Food was also good - I ate it both ways! We had bangers and mash on our way out with a pesto pasta salad (pics on my TR) and it wasn't bad at all. Can't comment on children's meals unfortunately. On the way out we also had a chicken Caesar sandwich about 3/4 way throughout the flight. Coming home they stated there was a choice of pasta or beef. We were sitting towards the back of the flight (ha forgotten to do online check in the day before), and so by the time they reached us they had run out of pasta. We found out that the pasta was just pasta in plain tomato sauce so I wouldn't have chosen that anyway, so I really wasn't bothered! The beef was some beef in tomato-based sauce with a vegetable rice accompaniment. Sort of like a curry, but not. That's probably no help at all haha! For the people that refused beef, there was some talk about seeing what they had left from the Club level etc. We also then had a breakfast box shortly before landing with some cranberry/orange loaf, a yoghurt, flapjack thingy and mints.

Cabin crew were great both ways, but looked a lot more flustered on the way back - I think that's to do with some very difficult passengers in our area of the plane giving everyone a hard time. There's also some aren't there?! Anyhow, they were still attentive and had no problems with getting soft drinks (and wine) numerous times.

The planes seemed a little more tired than when I flew this route in 2011. Not uncomfortable by a long shot - I just noticed a bit of a difference. Temperature was a bit too high on both legs, but nothing taking off my jumper couldn't solve! I wouldn't hesitate to fly with them again - twice now I've had fantastic fares on this route by booking a codeshare through Iberia!

 

[BethEJo]

Oh, and something else that swings this route with BA for me is that there's no weight restriction on hand luggage proves very handy!!

 

[Verity Chambers]

Thanks for that Beth, we booked through Iberia too, well with opodo, got a great deal is check in just through ba? In a bit confused!!

 

[BethEJo]

That's exactly what we did; book Iberia through Opodo. The flight reference etc that they give you will work on the BA Website to allow you to access your booking. You can also do online check in via the BA website 24 hours before flight departure using the same details. All very simple!

The only thing that you can't do if you've booked the Iberia codeshare is book extra luggage at a cheaper rate before getting to the airport. Or that's what I was told anyway. I only needed that coming home after three months though! You can purchase it at the airport at airport prices if you need it though!

I will definitely book Iberia through Opodo in the future again if it comes out cheapest

When do you go?

 

[Verity Chambers]

55 days! Eek!! We've also just booked Sofitel with parking for night befor so even more excited!

 

[Verity Chambers]

Thanks for all the info Beth, that's great. Do you know of you can check in at the airport the night before?

 

[MadScouser]

We are going BA for first time in August (memo to self : change sig !)

Fly BA a lot, and have always rated them, just never done it for Orlando before (always done Virgin)

Hope you have a great trip

 

[wilma-bride]

Thanks for all the info Beth, that's great. Do you know of you can check in at the airport the night before?

Verity, if you are flying from Gatwick then you can definitely check-in at the airport the night before (not sure about Manchester).

More info here

 

[Verity Chambers]

Yes we are flying from gatwick joh )