Originally Posted by carrotjuice

Seems the retailers are reacting to the Independent article.

I was at Fortnum at T5 and when the checkout girl asked for my boarding pass, I asked in return why if the items I purchased were exactly the same price as their Piccadilly store. She kinda glanced knowingly at another checkout girl who stepped in to say that "BA asked them to scan the passes!?"

In the end, when I refused, she took out a piece of paper from under the counter which contained a dummy barcode and scanned that instead!