Hello, it's Wednesday the 14th of July and thanks for joining me for the latest on travel and destinations from the Green List and the travel desk of the Independent.

Today on British Airways, Buy on board is back for economy passengers in Europe.

Traveling by train on the West Coast main line, watch out for closures

tonight, and Manchester's revived Terminal 2 opens today with Terminal 3 at Heathrow following

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British Airways, you might remember, about four years ago, astonished passengers by removing its complimentary catering and bringing in what

was called buy on board, the idea that whatever you wanted, you could order it from the trolley.

It was controversial at first, but a number of people said, actually, this works well because I'm getting some decent food.

And if I don't want anything to eat or drink, then that's fine. I'm not paying for something I don't want.

The coronavirus pandemic put the kibosh, I think is a technical term on that.

And you went from being able to buy on board to be given a bottle of water, 25 millilitres, not too big, and then typically a packet of crisps or a biscuit.

Well, from the 19th of July on quotes selected routes and I have asked what they might be the idea is back now just a reminder that there is quite a range of buy before you fly food and drink on offer if that's

what you want to do including including the Tom Kerridge range.

But the new development is that you will be able during the flight to think, oh, actually,

I could do with a genitonic, or I'm a bit hungry, I'd love a sandwich. And you'll be able to do that

on your phone, on the plane. This is

basically the same as what's happening on, for example, Virgin West Coast trains where you've got

at seat service which you just order and it arrives. I've tried that one out. It works a treat. For this,

you'll need to hook up to the Wi-Fi on the plane. That's going to be free and then you click

on shop and you get a virtual menu of drinks and snacks and then you pay for it with your debit or

credit card or indeed through your frequent flyer

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