Happy new year, frequent flyers. If you’re accustomed to the front seats of a British Airways cabin, you are quite possibly fuming about the flag carrier’s latest streamlining exercise: replacing the cooked breakfast service with a long-life pastry and fruit salad on eight of its shortest routes.  

“The breakfast was something to look forward to, particularly on an early NCL-LHR” carps one member of a frequent flyer forum about Newcastle to Heathrow flights – a route on which the service time is approximately 30 minutes. 

Yes, this will hurt some corporate customers on tight connections who timetable their breakfast for mid-air, but most people under the age of 40 are likely thinking, so what?   

When you’ve grown up with the convenience of cheap, no-frills flights zipping you across Europe for a song, a full-service fare with a plastic tray of reheated omelette and bacon is anachronistic.

Flying in style is fading into oblivion. At least for most of us.

It has been a slow, but sad demise. Almost a decade ago, BA swapped free meals for economy passengers on short haul flights for a........

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