Infantile mud-slinging??
Some taxi drivers I found whilst travelling in other countries have actually been helpful-a couple of times advice was given to me that a couple of places I suggested would not have been safe to walk around during daylight hours-needless to say I took their advice!
TightSlot-I know that there are plenty of dodgy places out there all over the world but Tunisia and Cairo have suddenly had massive political instability in a short space of time. Clearly nobody is rushing out for cheap flights to Iraq or Afghanistan but my point was that Tunisia and Egypt were considered reasonably safe and suddenly erupted but now some airlines carry on as if everthing is normal. As pilots and/or operators we need to protect some of these people from their own stupidity-after all how many times have you seen passengers forget their passport or they can't work out how to put their seatbelt on!
Joao da Silva-thanks for the article (not the first time for BA then!).