BA then directly offered the two 14-year-old girls £250 each not to go on the flight.
I used to fly many hundreds of hours a year as a passenger and if I didn't have to be somewhere at exactly the time the flight I was booked on landed I activly voulunteered to take an alternative!!!!
The airlines give you MONEY! and you still get where you want to go only a few hours later...
There is more to this story,
Eventually all three flew.
Me thinks two others took the money and just smiled.....
P.S. As to British Airways, well, a couple of times after I have accepted the offer not to travel on the flight I booked I have been called back to the gate and boarded. (they didn't want the bribe back!)