How some people like to set hares running!
The company in question is British Airways. Nobody yet knows what is going on because according to informed sources the bank jumped the gun and issued the cards before the company issued any communications!
Quite why a major airline with worldwide operations suddenly feels the need to issue flight crew with credit cards after umpteen years of operations and occasional diversions to some pretty obscure places is a good question! The comany communications on the issue when they eventually get round to publishing some will be interesting. Fascinating that so many flight crew have already binned the card before knowing the intentions.
There are a lot of changes taking place at the moment with the declared aim of reinforcing the chain of command/flight crews status/rank etc. That this ever needed reinforcing speaks volumes of the dysfunctional relationship between Inflight Services and Flight Ops.
The latest is that BA has just issued Cabin Service Directors with company telephones. Who knows what they will be arranging during boarding/delays without informing the captain!