It’s always nice to see economy class passengers being shown a little love by an airline. They seem so often forgotten, so it’s great to hear British Airways are adding extra food and drinks for those down the back.
While the changes really bring the products up to the level of other airlines, they should not be dismissed. These extra items should add a nice glow of happiness to those on long flights in the inexpensive seats.
Extra Food And Drinks
First up, World Traveller Plus customers (that’s premium economy) will see the return of their welcome drink. Sparkling wine will be offered to enhance the pre-flight experience. It’s long overdue, as it really adds to the overall feel of the cabin class.
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- These are quite delicious!
Those in both World Traveller and World Traveller Plus will now get an ice cream service on all day flights departing before 5pm. This brings BA in line with Aer Lingus who have served ice creams on their transatlantic flights in economy class for a while.
Overall Thoughts
The British Airways press release notes the ice creams start on Friday, 7 July 2023. World Traveller Plus will get their welcome drinks back in the middle of July, so not too much longer to wait.
As usual, people travelling in the premium cabins have not been forgotten. Club World business class will get a British sparkling wine to try (Balfour Rosé de Noirs), while First passengers get a rosé blend wine called Rock Angel. All of that is topped off with summer inspired menus through September. Good times!
What do you think of the ice creams for economy class passengers and the welcome drink restoration for World Traveller Plus? Thank you for reading and if you have any comments or questions, please leave them below.
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Featured image by Irish Air Spectacular and Ice Cream via British Airways.
What happened to high tea that was there before Covid, a wrap or a sandwich before landing doesn’t come anywhere near it, stop doing all spice food have an alternative.
Hopefully someone from BA reads your feedback. Thank you for that!
Always welcome to hear enhancements. It would be good going forward for them to serve a dairy free ice cream. It would be able to cater to much larger proportion of their customers and they could even claim the environmental benefits if they wished! Judes, the brand theyre using, do a brilliant dairy free ice cream that dairy lovers wouldnt even know the difference with!
That’s a good point, especially since the company offers it. I wonder if they will stock some of those as a matter of course.
Love the review (and your others too). I, also, love Rock Angel. It is probably Château d’Esclans best value wine, having much more depth and complexity than the more well known Whispering Angel and being much lighter on the wallet than the luxurious Garrus. None of the Château d’Esclans wines are, however, English. They are all from Sacha Lichine’s estate in Provence.
https://www.esclans.com/product/rock-angel/
Thanks for the kind words and for the correction! Much appreciated – I’ll update that in the article.
After legroom and IFE the best way to make passengers happy is to keep them busy by (metaphorically) throwing food at them.
I agree, I like eating on flights as it passes the time really easily.