Originally Posted by London_traveller

It's back-slapping for the old boys club. You can't blame BA really, it needs to use all it has in its armoury to hang onto business. Investment in the product would be infinitely preferable but that's for another thread.

Interesting point re being an 'incentive'. The anti-bribery and corruption policy where I am (global FTSE firm) bans this kind of thing. I suspect the CEO/CFO might have one nonetheless - I'm sure there are ways and means to explain why it's somehow not an incentive...