Chrimesy, what a load of tosh you wrote! Good luck to them in their endeavour, but you imply that in support of their task, everyone should bend over backwards giving them freebies. Did they pay for their ride to the airport? If driven, did they try and get the petrol free from a garage? BA supports many charities, but it is also a commercial business, and these people bought commercial tickets and knew the rules. It's a bit unfair to apply moral blackmail to every business that they come into contact with. Each capplication does get looked at for its merits- it's not really fair to try and blag an overload citing 'but we're carrying this for charity!' at the check-in desk! Whilst one applauds people who do this, usually the book coming out about such endeavours, the newspaper articles and the TV documentary produced about it, often causes suspicion that personal profit motives enter the equation as well as charitable aims. Should a private business be expected to support every charitable enterprise because of the threat of bad publicity? Is this a form of blackmail?