Well on an Easy flight I had, the chief was a large middle aged male apparently impersonating a female, with what sounded like an artificially raised voice imitating how a female talks. Whatever would your son have said? I know we are supposed to find all that OK now, but many of the passengers around me were reacting unfavorably to it.
So you can tell the state of an aeroplane by how fresh the cabin furnishings are? Does BA have 'ex American' 767s? They all have RB211 engines- are there any ex American ones?