Excellent job. THANK YOU for not using subtitles! 99.9% of videographers use them to state the obvious. Not using subtitles elevates your videos to another level. Can’t wait to see more of your coverage.😎

I consier the 747-8i and the Airbus A380 to be gorgeous!

Love the length. Some of these videos are how fast they can get on the plane, eat, sleep and get off. I enjoyed your comments on some many different things.

We REALLY like how clean, clear, "simple" and interesting your videos are. Congratulations!

Great video, thanks for sharing! Watching those engines is so satisfying.

Wow. Loved your video. Every second was relevant and your commentary and music perfectly matched the mood. I’ll look forward to following your next trips.

Great video mate! Makes me more excited about my trip in this next month! :D

Love your review and love BA First, you just got yourself a new subscriber

Great video by far the best and most detailed review of BA's 787 first class experience I could find on youtube.

Enjoyed this video. Personally felt the narration was objective and informative. Excellent job!

Patrick I really enjoyed the video, it was very informative and interesting. Thanks Richard

It was quite interesting and very fun to watch.

Very real review. I liked the pre flight lounge view. Flying my 1st BA 1st class next month. Usually do business as im so excited. Your cabin review, Al La Cart & flight length comments I totally agree wit, made me 😂 & sub

Probably the best airline to fly to the US. Absolutely impeccable and proper.

I love that background music in this awesome flight report that you've so,professonally presented / excellent editing too might i add.

Great Video can not wait to do my 1st first class flight June 1st 2024 from London to New York, the checking in Experience also sounded very Special So from the start it all sounds worth the extra money can’t wait after seeing your video

The amount of fantastic…

great report! thanks for sharing!

Great report - thanks for sharing.

Excellent trip report, Patrick. Definitely, the Airbus A350 is one of the most beautiful aircraft in the world. I like the shape of this plane. 😊

Very brilliant video and Informative commentary. Thanks

Thank you for sharing your First-Class seating trip. I see that yes, the "seating walls" are off centered and are wrapped around the seat more so, you do feel like each seat itself has good privacy even without the addition of doors.It is nice going to the lounges to have a nice meal and to take a shower before flying.. Nice...

I remember terminal 5 C was entirely filled with 747 BA some 9 years ago.And latest version 747-9 use that 787 technology of humidifying and extra oxygen cabin delivery .That my favorite bird.Both esthetics and comfort .Lufthansa will still fly them well into 2030-TH.And they’ll come out with new first class seats.Hopefully we’ll fly them again…

'The sourdough toast didn't quite live up to my San Francisco standards'.. mate, that's the most middle class comment I've heard all week 😉 Good video 👍

Great in-depth review!

great flight i enjoyed flying with you greetings from the netherlands

BTW, Your observations are apt. And useful.

Thank you for your journey and the Classic British Breakfast. Lordy I had PTSD when I remembered the black sausage. No thank you! Have a great day! Be well. Until your next journey!❤

Just found your channel, what a fantastic video - keep up the good work! New subscriber here!

Nice video. Good to hear a different (nice) report

Great video! Thank you! that looked great! I'm not a fan of BAs Business Class layout - but their first looks great! And Terminal 5 is pretty cool too. Will catch up on some of your other videos - I'd say San Jose would be a great alternative to SFO -

Fantastic vlog

Great review you should have way more subscribers!

My first airplane trip was in 1979 from Columbus, Ohio, to Dallas Ft. Worth. My mother also had never flown (she was 52), and so she came along for the fun of it. Mother decided we should fly first class. We flew on a 727 (American Airlines). I was 22 and going on an interview trip. (I got the job, BTW.)

This is a cool review!

GREAT VIDEO - I enjoyed it, dont listen to the negative comments - and Im a pilot!

Love the beauty shots starting around 41:40

Amazing video! Looks like a great flight. Just one tiny comment as a British person, Twinings tea is pronounced "Twy"-nings (same as try), not "twin"-ings

Thank you, Patrick.

Bro you’re so comprehensive. Well done just stumble on your channel.

A little trick. If you fly out of terminal 5, no long haul flights go from the A gates, the a gates are specifically for short haul. So you could go to the concorde room for food and then to the b gates and wait in the lounge there until the gate is called.

not even half way into the video and im loving it already. I love all the detail you put into the video, which is very much appreciated. great job!

I really like your classic sneakers (Chucks).

I've always had wonderful food on BA First. Good wines. And I preferred the a la carte menu. The service is excellent.

Amazing video

Impeccable and proper service as always with BA. The best airline to fly over the Atlantic with in my opinion.

Great video. I used to fly BA quite a bit back in the 2000's and I will tell you it is not what it used to be. They have had a number of cost cutting presidents recently and the passenger experience has suffered as a result. My last trip back from London with BA was in First and I was really disappointed. The cabin service was the usual BA excellence but the ground experience was poor. I had injured my leg on the trip and told BA that I may need assistance getting to the gate. There was a security breach which meant they shut down the escalators to go down to the train out to the far concourse and there were about 2000 people were waiting for the lifts. Went back to the Concorde Room saying that I need help getting to the gate. They told me that there was nothing they could do. Lufthansa would have driven me to the gate. The biggest reason you buy First is for the best service no matter the situation and BA just does not provide that kind of service. Their staff generally try but they aren't allowed to go the extra mile. They have a new president and I expect it to get better. For a truly amazing first class experience from a European airline, fly Lufthansa and be sure to book a long connection in Frankfurt. You need to experience the First Class Terminal and a six hour connection would be about perfect. I had about three hours and it wasn't long enough. It is an incredible experience.

Great content! Pretty sure I heard you land as we live in the Rosegarden area of San Jose - by Santa Clara University and Bellarmine College Prep and directly over the flightpath.

flown BA first twice to Vegas before they retired the 747's......superb

Very nice

I do think it would be a huge improvement for BA to provide cars to drive First passengers to your gate, especially given that almost all long haul flights (and therefore flights with 1st) go from B and C gates. Air France does this as CDG and at a terminal as complicated as T5 it would make a big difference. Another point is that yes they usually don't show the gate until near to departure, but if you ask the check in agent at Business or First check in they will tell you your gate so you can go and sit in the B building lounge, usually they just tell you without asking or put in on your boarding pass though

Excellent commentary

I agree with a la carte, I fear I'll miss out on something kick ass

Live your video fantastic

Your 1st Class Journey Vid 👍

Beautiful terminal in London Heathrow impressive First Class lounge . F.y.i I was born in Hayward California went to Sfo every weekend also lived in San Jose in Santa Clara small 🌎

Great review. I need to try BA first class

Nice video! I've got my own first long haul first coming up on Jan 12 with BA to SFO, so I'll be seeing some similar things that you did. My flight is on an A380, so the seat design is a bit older, I think, and the F cabin has 14 seats, but I hope I'll be as impressed as you were!

Bamboo Airways have a wonderful livery.

You mentioned that the gate was not posted until nearer the time of boarding, yet your boarding card had it on when you showed it in the check in area!! BA is easy terminal 5A is European and domestic and the rest 5B and 5C unless the flight departs terminal 3. Great review. I loved my trips with BA first.

you deserve more subscribers

First class is first class, everywhere. In and of itself, every first class product is great. But in the context of the money involved and competition, not every first class is created equal. And the BA first class is definitely not up there with the best of them. Which is a shame, because as recently as the turn of the century, they had a world leading product.

Excellent vid. Ok a few things need to be understood re T5. There is little food freshly cooked, most is pre cooked as the design of T5 does not allow chimneys ( the reason for this was a fire in a fast food outlet in T1) Plus T5 was designed by two totally different companies who had little conversations pre construction, one company built the barn like structure and the second the interior. Hence problems with gates etc, all the thoughts where given over to the shopping area and its function as a airport terminal secondary ( before I have the usual”smart” questions I was working in LHR when T5 was designed and we all attended lectures by BAA on the function etc of the terminal) Gates do not need to be announced any earlier than 40 mins before, there are two main reasons for this,1. LHR has more departures than gates at many times of the day so a juggling act must be done to get the aircraft on stand prior to its flight 2. The gates are not large enough to fit all the pax on a flight so why would you want to be standing 2 hrs before a flight??? That dosent make any sense. The Concorde room used to have a conference area with the seats being those taken of a genuine Concorde and adapted for use on the ground. Sour dough bread? Remember your in England not the US, so tastes etc will be different as will ingredients some you have in the US will not be availible in the UK… The a la Carte meal service is designed so you eat when it suits you, most people eat then sleep but you did part of it then wanted the rest at the end of the flight which given time and volume constraints are difficult ( if there is a particular lovely desert people may ask for second helpings etc so at the end of the flight there will be limited choice) But an excellent flight report

Twining rhymes with mining.

Nice to see international flights to and from San Jose. The first class seats looked very nice, but not a big upgrade from, say, Singapore Airlines Business Class as far as the seats are concerned. The business seats looked rather cramped and sub-par. Heathrow still looks like a clusterf.... Regarding the ala carte menu, I'd probably get a whole bunch of appetizers and small plates. One trick is to order something at the start for later in the flight, such as the desert or a specific entree. I could see wanting the short rib as a pre-landing meal.

I've been to the San Jose airport frequently. It's a pretty decent airport.

I also like the British Airways A350 preferably the 1000 variant

18:19 The retrofitted 777’s and I believe new 787-10 have First Class suites with closing doors and a new IFE.

Thank you for an incredibly comprehensive travelogue; British Airways still does First Class very well. What is your favourite trans-Atlantic airline?

Great coverage. Although BA seemed nice enough, I don’t think it can compare to Singapore Air. Thanks for posting.😊

Most beautiful? B747-8 (not the most modern, but the classic design still shows why it is the Queen of the Skies!

Sadly, BA stopped flying to SJC from London. I only got to take this route once before. I hope BA brings back this route !!

Thanks

Great video. Don’t listen to the naysayer. It was your experience at that stage w/ the flights you had flown.

So glad your round up hit better notes: some remarks from other are not accurate. The First Lounge cannot be compared to the quiet superb Concorde Lounge for those actually flying in First. The food, seating ambience, liw noise level and seating & daylight areas are excellent. FIRST on BA is better on smaller aircraft not the A380 and that equipment is older. It's British and its consistent. They just don't drive you around the airport like AF LX or Swiss.

Any club world passenger can use any if the clubworld lounges.

Shame the shower rooms in The Concorde Room are so lavatory/white-box style considering the rest of the space and objective for the ultimate pax experience. But, I guess you can't have it all? ahah. Great video! I'm really fascinated by BA's choices into some "lesser" US destinations, like San Jose, or SAN, PHX, AUS, et al.

I always used the first class security, you can use your Gold BA rewards card to access this.

Food choices in Concord room are the same as in First lounge

Nice video. What seat did you sit in? I might take the same one to London.

In my opinion I think the a380 is the beautiful plane in the world!!!

id love to tick off a First Class flight off my bucket list. Mind you, i wasnt overly thrilled with the meals you got served up, compared to other airline posts ive watched. that desert wasnt much. i would have wanted something a bit more "special" as its in First Class. I must be a pig, because Id have certainly eaten a lot more than you did.. haha. safe travels

Hi , love the video please can u cover your booking reference next time your booking reference is like your I’d it can show all yur flights and information about you with ba Just telling u as I work for ba. 😃✈️

I enjoyed your video. Some critiques about BA. In the Concorde Lounge, the menu they gave you was tatty - in what is meant to be an ultra premium product, they should not have given you a tatty menu. The menus should be inspected daily, and any signs of wear and tear, they should be binned. The cutlery also needed replacing - you can see the scratches on them. Again, not good as part of an ultra premium experience. At 18:08 In your First seat, at the top of the seat, above the 2K plate, you can see the joint. That's not attention to detail. Again, at 19:33, you can see a joint to the left. That's not attention to detail. I wouldn't go as far as saying that the cabin is tatty, or worn out, but it definitely needed some TLC. It needed a good clean, to remove scuff marks. These are just some of the many criticisms of your flight. The above is *not* a criticism of your video, or your opinion, or your experience. In fact, I agreed with your experience, and I am glad you had a very positive experience. With the prices that BA charge for their First experience, it should be better.

Concorde Room is the epitome.

Seq number 69, nice!

Just my opinion, the first class experience should continue until you reach the curb or so. Going from a very cool and private experience to a cattle line was a shock more than once.

A350 not only most beautiful, also most comfortable

In answer to which is the most beautiful of BA's a/c, it's most definitely the 747 followed by the 787. The 350 looks like they put the wrong tail on it.

Hey Patrick, Fyi with 16:38 we can see your AA number, given your last name is there and the barcode which can be used to extract your number - there is a possibility that someone who might be a bit too jealous might come after your account

Hilarious that you think London is foggy and cold most of the time. Completely ill informed, sorry. But the rest of your review and lounge tours are great 👍. Thanks

I've flown BA first class LHR-ATL twice, once on a 777, once on a 787-9. I thought "Well, this is pretty good", but having twice flown Qatar business to Doha, onward to Singapore I realized how QR offers something way better.

Best looking plane at the moment is the Airbus A220 followed by the Boeing 787, IMO.

One word, ABBA!! If you know, you know. 🤷🏼‍♂️ Great vid’ so thanks.

Excellent review, have you experienced Emirates FC and their lounge in Dubai? Worth a review 😉

26:36, Sichuan airlines in the Kung Fu panda livery on the Airbus A350-900 is number 1 because the plane looks so beautiful. Number 2 is Hainan airlines in the Kung Fu Panda livery on the Boeing 787-9 Dreanliner. And number 3 is China Eastern airlines special livery on the Airbus A330-200 and Boeing 777-300ER in the CIIE livery.

The beef looked amazing, but I will never understand why Americans call the main course entree - the word is French, and it means starter 😝

Your gate was on your boarding pass given to you at check in so you didn’t have to wait until it was on the screen in T5A. Also the lounge at B can be used by any lounge eligible passenger and is often the quietest. You can walk back to A in about 10 mins if necessary.

theyre not going to give u a razor blade on a plane lol

Looking at it wonder if it’s worth using 36,000 avios to upgrade a round trip from business to first, seems pretty similar