KelvinD
23rd Dec 2014, 16:19
It seems BA have suffered a bit of a PR disaster today.
Flight BA117 was due to go to New York at 08:20. According to which feed you read/believe, the aircraft originally slated to go was subbed. Eventually they ended up putting G-CIVZ on the route and that (allegedly) broke. Rumours talk of a smell of burning and others talk of a burning fuel pump.
Of course, the chatter mills are full of people speculating on the chances of anyone actually getting across the pond now before Xmas.
Donkey's years ago I was travelling LHR to JFK on Xmas Eve with BA and we were delayed as an earlier US bound departure had only made it as far as the Channel and turned around. Eventually, some of the passengers from the aborted flight were transferred to our flight and off we went.
With a grand total of 27 souls on board a VC10! That total of 27 included the crew!
That was my "4 hangover Xmas". Left Jeddah early morning on a BA Tristar. Spent a few hours in LHR recovering from the first hangover. Was hijacked by a lovely young lady on the VC to New York and she insisted on drinking brandy & beer until we both fell asleep. Recovered from that at JFK and then took a Delta 727 to New Orleans and b*&^er me, they were only serving free champagne. Being sat in the last row, next to the galley, I was issued with a refill every 10 minutes!
Topped off with a 100 mile trip to Pascagoula and off to a party.
I wish I had just 10th of that sort of stamina now!
Flight BA117 was due to go to New York at 08:20. According to which feed you read/believe, the aircraft originally slated to go was subbed. Eventually they ended up putting G-CIVZ on the route and that (allegedly) broke. Rumours talk of a smell of burning and others talk of a burning fuel pump.
Of course, the chatter mills are full of people speculating on the chances of anyone actually getting across the pond now before Xmas.
Donkey's years ago I was travelling LHR to JFK on Xmas Eve with BA and we were delayed as an earlier US bound departure had only made it as far as the Channel and turned around. Eventually, some of the passengers from the aborted flight were transferred to our flight and off we went.
With a grand total of 27 souls on board a VC10! That total of 27 included the crew!
That was my "4 hangover Xmas". Left Jeddah early morning on a BA Tristar. Spent a few hours in LHR recovering from the first hangover. Was hijacked by a lovely young lady on the VC to New York and she insisted on drinking brandy & beer until we both fell asleep. Recovered from that at JFK and then took a Delta 727 to New Orleans and b*&^er me, they were only serving free champagne. Being sat in the last row, next to the galley, I was issued with a refill every 10 minutes!
Topped off with a 100 mile trip to Pascagoula and off to a party.
I wish I had just 10th of that sort of stamina now!