Summer adventures to Singapore and Kuala Lumpur - BA776 London Heathrow to Stockholm Arlanda

Summer adventures to Singapore and Kuala Lumpur – BA776 London Heathrow T5 to Stockholm Arlanda T2

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BA776 London Heathrow Terminal 5 to Stockholm Arlanda T2
British Airways, Seat 5A – Club Europe
Airbus A321
911 Miles flow, Zero Tier Points Earned, Zero Avios Earned (Redemption flight)

Heading down the long jetway, I headed to the waiting plane.

Sometimes, photo opportunities present themselves. Always take them.

I boarded the A320 and headed to my seat in Club Europe. And as usual, waiting for me were the B/E Pinnacle Seat in an extremely crappy seat pitch. Welcome aboard another BA flight.

Seat 5A

Legroom – The joy of 1) EuroBusiness and 2) the love of tightly configured planes.

The cocktail table.

The Airbus A321 filled out pretty well – justifying the use of a larger plane a few days before the bank holiday weekend.

Sadly, Row 5 has a minor issue aboard an Airbus A321 – no air vents. Now, a lot of you probably won’t care about that. Me? I like controllable air vents (especially if I’ve been running around in the morning and break out in a sweat rather easily).

A rather battered safety card.

Soon enough, it was time for our A321 pushed back, and begun the long taxi to the other end of the field – so we could take off from 27L.

Jetbridge away!

Hello G-MEDL! An ex BMED/BMI plane.

Our A321 took its time with the morning peak traffic, passing terminal 3 and 2 on the way through.

The second to last time I’ll see that ageing safety video. G’bye kid with the Concorde sweater! (What… you never noticed the kid has a Concorde on his sweater?… touch late now…)

Speedbirds Everywhere.

Virgin Atlantic Airbus A340-600 and the Tarrr of Parr.

Virgin Atlantic Boeing 787-9

Heathrow Terminal 3, with Cathay Pacific, American Airlines and Delta parked. It still doesn’t seem right Delta moving into Terminal 3…

The Spirit of Australia – a Qantas Airbus A380

A South African Airlines Airbus A330-200 being towed to the maintenance pads.

Lufthansa Airbus A320 lining up for departure.

Eventually – our A321 lined up, and rocketed up into the morning sky

With a departure from 27L, our A321 made a sharp turn over Windsor (and passing over Her Majesties preferred residence), and begun tracking out to the Norfolk Coast, over the North Sea, Denmark, and finally Sweden – to Stockholm Arlanda.

Windsor Castle.

Climb-out.

Service begun with a hot towel service.

With the towels taken away, a breakfast service followed, with a choice of continental, English or vegetarian. As I was planning a long walk around Stockholm – I went for the full English.

It wasn’t disappointing.

The tray – English Breakfast (Mushrooms, Tomato, Sausage, Scrambled egg and alleged bacon), with yoghurt. Bread was offered, but refused.

Details on the food

Drinks were also offered… and since I was on holiday… well…

Do I need to go much further?

British Airways insist on using Castelnau for bubbly in Club Europe (those who want Monopole Blue Top have to pay for it). This was served from a big bottle as opposed to mini bottles (another cost-cutting measure I suspect).

However, it suffers from being very acidic in the mouth, and not leaving what I consider a nice after-taste.

I suppose it makes for a passable picture though.

The cocktail table came into use after the main tray was cleared away.

Although the passenger next door failed to use the table, and instead deployed the tray in the middle seat…

To be honest, I dozed off after breakfast, waking up as our plane begun to descend into Arlanda.

With our plane loosing altitude, we landed at Stockholm Arlanda.

With a short taxi from the runway, the plane made its way onto the tarmac, and over to the quietness of Terminal 2

Terminal 3 in the distance.

Terminal 2. With an under threat airline parked there.

With the engines spooling down and the jetbridge attached, it was time to take my leave of the B/E Pinnacle seat, and head out to explore a new destination for me – Stockholm.

Still not the right seat BA. Not at all.

I thanked the crew, and headed out.

The plane resting at the gate.

Overall: Whilst the crew seemed to be enthusiastic about delivering the product, I can’t help that feel that more little cuts are being made here or there – it is digging into the product. Certainly, the food is better – but then in the morning , there is a high expectation for a reasonable breakfast service.

Put it like this: If I was flying on my own hard cash – I’d stump up economy class. But for a redemption flight – this would do nicely.

Next: Exploring Stockholm, featuring the Arlanda Express and Stockholm Old Town.

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Summer adventures to Singapore and Kuala Lumpur – BA776 London Heathrow to Stockholm Arlanda

Summer adventures to Singapore and Kuala Lumpur – BA776 London Heathrow T5 to Stockholm Arlanda T2

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