Flew with Malta recently with BA and the flight was with Avion Express. Like many I had read the horror stories, however it was by far the best flight I’ve had with ‘BA’ in Europe for a longtime. I could not fault the service, in fact I emailed BA after to suggest they could learn how to look after their passengers from this crew, but unlike Avion Express, BA don’t normally listen to their customers. The flight home was a BA crew who were more interested in feeding and watering themselves in the forward galley than looking after the passengers.

I haven't flown in Europe, so it came as a surprise to learn you had to wait until check-in to select your seat without cost. Food select in the lounge, and the meal on board both looked pleasing. Would love to be offered lamb onboard on time!

I never knew about that shortcut to departures, so thanks for that! It's been years since I flew with Wizzair (back when their only UK routes were to a few Eastern European destinations from Luton), but from what I recall, that seat does look like "Wizzair purple". Maybe they are original seats? Nice report, Jamie. That lamb did look pretty good!

I had the misfortune to fly BA on an Avion Express plane to Marrakech last year in "Club Europe'. Slowest in flight service I've ever experienced and no leg room, I'm only 5'9" and couldn't fit my legs in. Very uncomfortable and the toilet at the front of the plane was out of order! Got compensation Avios from BA as it really wasn't a premium experience. It's fine when it's a Finnair plane, they are of similar spec to BA.

Good memories that’s the location of the old continental business first lounge I remember it well

Great trip report

Pleasantly surprised by your experience. A lot of the negatives you identified (queues at check-in and slow boarding) would be caused by British Airways and not Avion Express. The cabin looked ok and the onboard meal and service seemed excellent. All in all not too bad and a delay on an evening departure out of Gatwick seems to be the norm these days.

I flew back from Amsterdam to Gatwick this morning on Avion Express. I believe they are a Maltese Airline, although I may be wrong. The flight was ok and at least we departed Amsterdam on time, as it was busy this morning at Schipol and we were back in London in around 50 minutes.

Good report! It's a shame that BA can't offer their own aircraft on these services, however it does make for some interesting travel experiences! In July, BA changed one of my flights from LGW to a Titan Airways Airbus A321neo, which was a decent upgrade over the original A321 scheduled. Sadly, the Titan Airways offering typically flies for a day or two, then gets sent back to Titan. One question, were BA transparent about them changing your flight to Avion Express? Because in my experience, they were very happy to tell me my flight was to be operated by BA Euroflyer, but they didn't mention anything about Titan Airways until I made a 'fake' booking and found it out. :)

Don't think the A320Neos have middle tables either in club europe

That food looks far superior to anything BA serve. Did you also have to deal with BAs insecure, clockwork IT systems? As others habe said many of the pain points EG boarding are actually BA not Avion

Literally just flown Avion Express out and back to Ibiza for a 3 night break, 9H-MLV out and 9H-MLZ back both in euro traveller. Awful both ways. Dirty aircraft. Zero toilet roll or hand towel stocked both ways mid flight. Outbound they sold my pre ordered speedbird cafe stuff to other passengers, refused to even look for my duty free. Pretzels no water both ways and didn’t finish the service on either sector leaving back 7-10 rows without a drink. Surly crew. Awful.