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Your post certainly made me smile ;-) but look at the evidence:
World first transatlantic jet service
Worlds first supersonic passenger service
Worlds first fully flat bed in First Class
Worlds first fully flat bed in business class
One of the first airlines to offer e-ticket, the first to offer it on international routes
First airline to put 100% of its staff through a putting people first programme and revolutionise its service delivery
First airline to employ a specialist wine buyer and leading international chefs to gain competitive advantage with superior food and wines bought at lower prices
First airline to offer four class service on international longhaul routes so offering an enhanced economy option
Worlds first personal video library on board in First Class
World's first well being in the air programme
World's first on board internet and email service
World leading flight and cabin crew training facilities used to train over 100 other airlines worldwide
First airline in the world to automate back office processes using e-forms and other e-working initiatives
BA's Waterside HQ was one of the first buildings in the world to provide a wireless infrastructure, so enabling workplace mobility
State of the art world cargo facility opened at LHR
BA has also recently won the best airline travel award for the 16th year in succession along with 6 other awards including best First Class and Best Business Class.
For all its faults, BA has demonstrated time and again its ability to surprise the industry. Personally I hated most of the ethnic tailfins, but look out of your window at the liveries of many of the world's airlines and you'll see the influence BA has had and how many have followed their lead. BA is a company which continually reinvents itself because at the heart of it all it has a tremendously gifted, loyal, talented and passionate workforce who believe in it and wouldn't want to work for anyone else no matter how much money was on the table.
Desk-pilot
was just reading through this forum ad saw this post from desk-pilot- im BA cabin crew & reading this made me extremely proud. i am happy 2 work for BA & no im not one of the pre-97 employees on massive salary basic- im 21-moved 2 london 2 work for a company i have always looked up 2 & now i feel extremely proud & work my arse off- with a positive attitude, high moral, good sense of humour- to help keep BA succesfull- its people like myself & desk-pilot who keep spirits high when every1 else just has total sh** to say! thanks.