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Old 24th Jun 2014, 05:51
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A very British airline...comment

I saw two of the programmes but missed the third. I wasn't impressed by BA and thought they treated their trainees pretty poorly. However, my mind went back 50 years or so to the days when I was in the Customs at Heathrow and dealt a lot with BEA and BOAC. OK, air travel was different in those days but I get the impression that flight crew and cabin staff in those days appeared to be much more professional, efficient, smart and generally competent. No disrespect to modern youngsters, but many of them just don't seem to have the necessary basic life skills or levels of common sense. I remember we used to snigger a bit at how stuck-up some of the senior BOAC Captains were - special cars at the aircraft steps and no crew busses for them, unlike most of the other airlines!
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