Originally Posted by parabellum
I seem to remember BA were too busy telling everyone that they were "The World's Favourite Airline"...................... yeah, right!
But they were, in the sense that they carried more passengers internationally than any other airline. They would not have been permitted to make that claim had they not had some way of justifying it, no matter how tenuously. Unfortunately, those days are long gone, and I say this as someone who still uses BA as his preferred carrier.