MS - Sorry, I dont understand your point in relation to my posts and thinking BA is like a bus company...however, if you want to use the example of the bus company, your anology totally misses the point.
"The FD watched 2 of his busses sail by, so caught a rival firms bus"...
What?
More accurate would be..."FD was on his way to the bus stop, and saw the bus sitting at the stop, with a couple of people boarding, the FD ran to try and catch the bus, but the bus departed, as it was time for it to do so. The FD was really angry, and after a few minutes another passenger joined him at the bus stop, the FD proceeded to tell him all about how unfair it was that the bus didnt wait for him, but the man just said "Why should it wait, you were not on time, if your not on time you have to wait for the next bus"