Is BA's new 'private jet' service worth the money?

BA's new service from London City airport to New York is as close to a private jet as you can get without being super-rich. But is it worth the price?

British Airway's new business-class-only service from London City airport to New York is as close to a private jet as you can get without being super-rich. But is it worth the £2,000 price tag?

The A318 planes offering BA's new service usually hold 100 seats. Here, that's been reduced to just 32 flatbed seats in eight rows. The luxury continues with the in-flight menu created by the acclaimed London restaurant Roast. The Somerset cider sauce surrounding the corn-fed British chicken is "probably the most robustly tasty thing I've ever eaten at 35,000ft", says Ed Grenby in The Sunday Times. Passengers can also text and email during the flight thanks to new on-board mobile-phone technology, but BA has had the good sense to make voice calls impossible. All in all, "flying on this service is a noticeably pleasanter experience than even BA's normal, rather good business class", says Grenby.

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