My recent experience in the past week - no en route map on the UK-USA sector yet full map from USA to UK.
One hour out of Orlando everything cleared (pax have to do this not cabin crew) includes pillows and blankets all to go into overhead lockers - so even if you are asleep you will be woken. If you are cold you freeze for the final hour. No reading material allowed - one chap close to me tried and got barked at by BA hostess, cabin crew member - member of stassi - you choose the best description! No eating or drinking and escort to loo if you need to go but you are discouraged from going. Its quite frankly a truely awful final 60 minutes (not that the previous 7 hours or so were much better with BA).
Internal USA flight two days ago with AA from Orlando to O'Hare. No security issues on board. Flight from O'Hare to Heathrow with BA - a full mapping system provided, no other constraints on the pax at all so obviously flying from the USA is not a security risk. Its all a nonsense but from a country that ID's everyone at orlando Airport when you want a beer what can one expect? I sometimes wonder about our American cousins.....
