View Full Version : New Exec Club Reward
PAXboy
3rd Oct 2011, 12:41
Frequent flyers jaded by free flights will soon have an alternative: redeeming their mileage points for a course on how to survive plane crashes. British Airways is to offer members of its Executive Club the chance to benefit from a four-hour session on air safety, The Independent has learned.
BA's richest passengers let in on secret of surviving crashes - News & Advice, Travel - The Independent (http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/bas-richest-passengers-let-in-on-secret-of-surviving-crashes-2364866.html)
strake
9th Oct 2011, 04:34
How funny.
So when the worst happens, as one of BA's "richest" passengers plummeting towards the earth , I will be able look back towards the economy section with a smug look on my face safe in the knowledge that I have learnt the secret of surviving the upcoming impact :)
Virgin Atlantic has never had a crash in its 27-year history.
Another statement from the author with which I beg to differ...
BBC News | UK | Hero pilots save 114 lives in Heathrow crash (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/23394.stm)
PAXboy
9th Oct 2011, 12:48
Yes indeed. I remember it well as I was going out through T4 that night and the airport was backlogged by the closure of the Southern runway and the roads all around were gridlocked AND it was pouring with rain!!
I suppose it depends on the categorisation of a 'crash' and was it a 'crash landing' or an 'emergency landing' etcetera.
As to survival in a prang, it is well known that one of the safeest places is in the very back of the fueselage. But I have always taken comfort from knowing that I shall die more comfortably at the front. :p
Its always said that the pilot is "the first one to arrive at the scene of the accident", I've always commented, except in a 747 where row 1 gets there marginally ahead :E