For no frills - no booking 
29.09.2008
Is it really worth paying that bit extra to fly with British Airways
anymore? Not only are the tickets usually more expensive than the
airlines that admit to being no-frills airlines, British Airways doesn't seem to offer many frills either. The company's most recent change was to start charging if you want to check in more than one piece of luggage – even if they weigh less than the baggage allowance. And the charges are not small either: £60 for each extra bag if you're on a short-haul flight - £120 for long-haul flights. That soon adds up.
Industrial troubles, strict baggage restrictions and now the new additional checked-bag charges will make me look elsewhere for my flights in the future. I have always tried to fly BA wherever possible in the past - partly because it's a family tradition - but I will definitely only do so from now on if there is no alternative. The new "open skies" deal, however, should mean there are more alternatives.
No wonder BA has stopped using the slogan "The World's favourite Airline": it obviously knows it isn't!
In our exercise, we look at the language used to talk about some of the changes at BA – and at what's being said about them.Billigfluggesellschaften
Extras
Gebühren erheben
zulässige Gesamtgewicht (des Fluggepäcks)
Kurzstrecken-
Langstrecken-
COMMENTS
Dear Ms Capras,
There seems to be a little typo in exercise number seven. Shouldn't it be exceed vs. exeed in the question and the answer section? It's already correct in the vocabulary list.
Best regards,
Uwe Kindsvogel