Very spirited display at Dover’s Bleriot 100 yesterday with some steep turns around the high terrain in a testing wind – and looking immaculate. Anyone up on the Castle Keep would have got some good shots. Another display due there today so that’s what you saw.

Why schedule it to fly near the end of the progamme knowing it is a complex aircraft which might need time for a quick fix after engine start and knowing the weather forecast for the day?

Then, seeing huge gaps in the programme appearing because of other cancellations, why was it not brought forward by the organisers, also in the knowledge the weather was forecast to deteriorate further towards evening?

By the way, the Rafale didn’t just fly, it gave a stunning display in what was probably the worst period of weather of the day, putting the Navy’s efforts for the entire day to shame.

This surely is a fuel price hedging problem. The underlying performance is quite good compared to other airlines. BA avoided the worst of the fuel price surge earlier by hedging and now the same device results in paying over the odds when the price falls.
Most likely the next set of results will be good resulting in Willie and his crew getting their bonuses back while the workers will have been tricked into accepting pay reductions.
Good on BALPA for calling the bluff.

India started the visa war many years ago.

I recall being similarly held in the Mumbai Departure lounge as flight crew travelling passenger and therefore not having the “correct visa” in the eyes of the immigration officer.

I didn’t whinge about racial profiling, though.

It might help to find out the approximate date the picture was taken then ask which advertising agency had a contract with BA at the time. If I remember rightly BA had exclusive contracts with agencies for quite long periods around that time. If you can pinpoint the agency it is much more likely to keep records and copies than BA, which keeps very little other than legally required records. The agency is also likely to be a whole lot more helpful towards you.

Good luck.

does anyone think that when the time comes for it’s next major rebranding exercise that “British Airways” will and perhaps should become ‘BA’ ?

British Airways is unlikely to rebrand itself….

……but, with predators circling constantly, the private equity firm that takes it over most certainly will.

Photographs clearly show the right-hand engine was not running at the time of impact, since the fan blades are still intact.

The left-hand engine blades all have their tips missing. It is not clear from the photos when this damage occurred. It may have occurred in flight, in which case it would have ceased delivering significant power at this point, or it may show this engine was still running on impact and the damage occurred then.

Either way there was certainly an engine failure, possibly double.