On the BBC news this morning a certain Simon Calder popped up and declared (I think) that BA were still selling tickets from BOM whilst 'thousands' of British travellers were still stranded.

Evidently he was able to visit the web and potentially purchase a one-way BOM-LHR in Y for £3,000.

He does realise that BA is a commercial airline, who have lost a ton of money through this disruption, and have an obligation to their shareholders, or does he? I have every sympathy for travellers who are disrupted or stranded but if there are flyers out there desperate or daft enough to pony up for those kinds of fares then BA should take their money. Or perhaps BA is a charity that is now obliged to ferry all and sundry back home regardless of further cost to itself?

I have noticed recently that this man Calder seems to be BBC's rent-a-mouth whenever there is any kind of bad news on the travel front and I see that he is a travel journalist for the Independant (which I don't read). His comments always seem, to me anyway, to be statements of the bleeding obvious.

I am sure that in real life he is probably a perfectly decent fellow but he does strike me as the sort of 'smart alec' that I wouldn't necessarily want to live next door to.