A man is taking British Airways to court after being asked to change his seat so that he was not sitting next to a child who was not his own.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

Is this common practice on other airlines ?

Is it justified ?

He has no ground to win the case it isn’t airline policy as far as i am aware, it is one of the regulatory bodies that sets this rule if i am not mistaken, yes i see his side of the argument, a women can be just as likely to have the same intentions.

But to sue the airline isn’t a clever idea, especially a large global company like BA

at NCL we have a habit of calling them FleeBy, not sure why to be honust lol.

It’s alleged that it’s the only airplane type that can suffer a birdstrike from behind:D Different story on the -500/600 though with those big Rollers.

Do explain lol, i really want to hear this one 😀

It was a Boieng 737 800

REG:N977AN

Delivered:20:12:2001

Just had its 8th birthday

wow that must be a bummer for the insurers, having to fork out for a relatively new and expensive A/C.

But like people have said At least everyone is going to be with their family on Friday 🙂

This strike action is just un-believable really the really think that loosing the airline more money by walking out is going to improve the situation?

How can they expect to earn the money they do whilst the airline is loosing more money a day the any of them would probably earn in a lifetime?

And people accuse bankers of living in a dreamworld, the crew don’t seem to realise the consequences of their actions:
people aren’t going to be home for christmas with their families, let’s just hope some of them get stuck away from home, see how they feel.

The strike could not only spell the end for BA but what about those indirectly employed by the airline? Such as the handling agents, the agent I work for handles about 6 BA flights a day from a major reigonal airport, they are one of our biggest contracts, we already lost the best part of £1m nationally in the last year.

So not only are the crew talking themselves out of a job it’s people like me who barely earn £12-£13k a year handling them that face loosing everything!

All I can say now is Good Luck Willie with the high court cause I’m damn well behind you!!

With reference to the ‘TV’ thread in General, I think we all know how this will be carried out – the pilots will zip down a wire connected to an aircraft flying along side it 🙂

or they could do it using a C-130 and jump out the back problem solved 😀

I myself am quite looking forward to watching this will be very interested to see how a modern airliner reacts exactly?