Neil Williams wrote:
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:11:00 +0100, Cheeky wrote:

They were saying that no other airline caterers have the capacity to
take on BA if GG was to vanish. I guess someone will buy the
operation, renegotiate the contract with BA and either re-employ the
staff on less £ or get cheaper staff in. Sad but likely...

It is being rumoured that BA might buy it back themselves. I would be
very interested to see what happens then...

Do GG have anything to do with RailGourmet, out of interest? If not,
I wonder how such similar names ended up existing?

Neil

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I'm not a betting person but I'll lay odds that BA wont have anything
to do with taking the catering back in house. In fact if I was in
charge of BA I would be looking to outsource baggage handling.

Kevin

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They were saying that no other airline caterers have the capacity to
take on BA if GG was to vanish. I guess someone will buy the
operation, renegotiate the contract with BA and either re-employ the
staff on less £ or get cheaper staff in. Sad but likely...

I wish BA would simply drop the idea of serving food on flights of less
than three hours - the quality is generally awful these days, and eating
in such cramped conditions is no fun. I'd personally much rather make or
buy my own sandwich.

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Isn't the cost something like £9, I would much rather have the money
and considering I usually travel with a family of 4 that would be £36.

Kevin

Neil Williams wrote:

Do GG have anything to do with RailGourmet, out of interest? If not,
I wonder how such similar names ended up existing?

Why do you think those names are any more similar than, say, British
Railways, British Airways and British Waterways? Or C&A and B&Q? Or the
AA and the FA?

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Isn't the cost something like £9, I would much rather have the money
and considering I usually travel with a family of 4 that would be £36.

http://tinyurl.com/8fhoa

link to story detailing costs to BA

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:47:37 +0100, Paul Terry
wrote:

I wish BA would simply drop the idea of serving food on flights of less
than three hours - the quality is generally awful these days, and eating
in such cramped conditions is no fun. I'd personally much rather make or
buy my own sandwich.

BA could provide standard packet sandwiches instead. Probably of a
higher standard as well as being cheaper.

Neil

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On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:02:45 GMT, Chris Tolley

Why do you think those names are any more similar than, say, British
Railways, British Airways and British Waterways? Or C&A and B&Q? Or the
AA and the FA?

Because...

1. Their logos use similar colours, as I recall.
2. "xx Gourmet" strikes me as a less generic, and more trademarkable,
brand compared with "British" something or something "Association".
That said, all of the "British" organisations you note once were (or
in the latter case still are) nationalised and therefore were
connected.

Neil

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Paul Terry typed

I wish BA would simply drop the idea of serving food on flights of less
than three hours - the quality is generally awful these days, and eating
in such cramped conditions is no fun. I'd personally much rather make or
buy my own sandwich.

I'm afraid I disagree. I often have more than enough to carry without
lugging food and drink.

I'm usually hungry by the time I've spent a couple of hours travelling
to the airport and another couple of hours checking in, so it's 4 or 5
hours from the time I leave home until I'm airborne.

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Helen Deborah Vecht wrote:
I'm afraid I disagree. I often have more than enough to carry without
lugging food and drink.

I'm usually hungry by the time I've spent a couple of hours travelling
to the airport and another couple of hours checking in, so it's 4 or 5
hours from the time I leave home until I'm airborne.

While I agree with all that, more often than not you need to check
in a good time before the flight. It doesn't take that long to eat
a steak and chips at a 'spoon, and it's normally much nicer than
airline food.

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Mike Bristow - really a very good driver

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writes

On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:47:37 +0100, Paul Terry
wrote:

I wish BA would simply drop the idea of serving food on flights of less
than three hours - the quality is generally awful these days, and eating
in such cramped conditions is no fun. I'd personally much rather make or
buy my own sandwich.

BA could provide standard packet sandwiches instead. Probably of a
higher standard as well as being cheaper.

I doubt that they would be either better or cheaper than the sandwiches
I can make for myself.

I have the utmost confidence that I could make a drink and a sandwich
for considerably less than the reported £7.80 BA pay to Ghastly Gourmet,
even when charging my time at five times what GG pay their staff.

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Paul Terry