However, as others and myself have chronicled multiple times, “The World’s Favourite Airline” has lost a good bit of its luster. At one time I achieved the highest status you can earn on British Airways (BA), Concorde Room Level, as well as for a number of consecutive years, Gold Guest List, the next tier. While charging economy class fliers on its European routes for food would be acceptable in the current version of Airline CEO, charging for coffee, water and soda is just plain stingy. The goal of scoring two roundtrip business class tickets on Qatar Airways, a BA tier point earning partner and currently one of the best airlines out there was not happening. A two-for-one sale excluded my travel dates and the choices were narrowed to Ethiopian Airlines, Lufthansa and British Airways, with the latter winning my business with two decently priced business class tickets thousands of dollars less than Emirates, South African Airways, Delta Air Lines, Turkish Airlines, all of which have good business class products.

Source: Forbes December 22, 2017 09:11 UTC