It's not just their aviation heritage that BA don't give a d@mn about. It's the whole of British aviation.
They have been at the forefront of this bogus exercise by the airlines complaining about subsidising GA too much. The result of this 'consultation' is massive increases in charges to the GA sector and airfield operators. They are also on record as saying that a collapse of ATPL training in the UK because of these increases doesn't bother them as they don't have to recruit pilots here anyway.
You only have to look at other major airlines which maintain 'historic flights' to see the difference. Lufthansa, for example, makes regular appearances at Duxford's Flying Legends with their aircraft, and the JU52 also does pleasure flights.
i wonder how many expense account lunches it would have taken to pay for the Cosford aircraft to be maintained? But they appear on a different bit of the balance sheet and senior management need their incentives, don't they.
Richard Branson sponsored part of the insurance to get B17 Sally B back in the air last year, BA scrap their historic aircraft. Game, set and match to Virgin. BA ought to get some new
PR advisors, they are going to need them!
RD
