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Old Nov 16, 12, 10:00 pm   #1
 
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Beckham getting hassled by crew....

...Mixed Fleet youngsters I suppose.

FURIOUS David Beckham threatened to stop flying British Airways because starstruck stewardesses kept pestering him.
The final straw came when a young “trolley dolly” took a photo of him dozing in first class — and woke him up with the flash.


Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...#ixzz2CS96i1nI
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Old Nov 16, 12, 10:30 pm   #2
 
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If true then that's totally out of order by the crew. Going to guess and say Becks was flying the LAX route which is now a MF route. Had to happen at some point, starstruck teenage girls working F.
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Old Nov 17, 12, 12:36 am   #3
 
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Who's David Beckham?
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Old Nov 17, 12, 12:57 am   #4
 
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...Mixed Fleet youngsters I suppose.
Probably not. If the story were in The Mail I would suspect it of being incorrect. As its in The Sun I know it's wrong!
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Old Nov 17, 12, 1:01 am   #5
 
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Probably not. If the story were in The Mail I would suspect it of being incorrect. As its in The Sun I know it's wrong!

...and if it was in the Guardian, it would have been spinning with a load of left wing clap trap AND spelt wrong!
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Old Nov 17, 12, 1:22 am   #6
 
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...and if it was in the Guardian, it would have been spinning with a load of left wing clap trap AND spelt wrong!
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Old Nov 17, 12, 1:25 am   #7
 
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The story in the Telegraph was : Palace refuses to comment as David Beckham maligns Great British Institution - David Beckham, a well known association football player who married a singer, is quoted as saying "I will never fly British Airways again" yesterday. Beckham was included in the New Years honours list in 2007. The palace declined to comment on the OBE's calumny.

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Who's David Beckham?
He was (very briefly) a footballer. Not for many years though.
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Old Nov 17, 12, 1:37 am   #9
 
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I shall be making sure I increase my flying time with BA based upon the news that he shall never fly with them again.

As for him being a footballer, that is certainly open to interpretation, and as to referring to his wife as a "singer", I cannot think of anything in the English language to respond to that one.
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If true then that's totally out of order by the crew. Going to guess and say Becks was flying the LAX route which is now a MF route. Had to happen at some point, starstruck teenage girls working F.
I'd have thought the LAX route would turn up a pile of names better known and more attention worthy than either of the Beckhams.

So perhaps it was Moscow.....
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Old Nov 17, 12, 1:48 am   #11
 
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It just proves how silly he is. If he had the decency to read flyertalk he would have known that MF was at best a little challenging. I presume this was known by a phone message he left on a mobile phone.

I am surprised they werent on a private jet, like before. http://www.metro.co.uk/showbiz/76969...star-treatment
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Old Nov 17, 12, 2:25 am   #12
 
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Whatever one thinks of David Beckham, cabin crew photographing a passenger while asleep is indeed out of order.
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Old Nov 17, 12, 2:32 am   #13
 
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Given that he's now 37 I would have imagined One Direction would prove a greater draw these days if they were indeed "youngsters". In any case it's a pretty bad invasion of privacy, and given the public work he does do the guy deserves space when it should be given
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It just occured to me.......if this goes in "celebs on BA" do we get tarred with the same brush?
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Old Nov 17, 12, 2:36 am   #15
 
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I also thought it was a MF issue when I heard this news on the radio this morning.

Never one to let a PR opportunity go though is he
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