Originally Posted by
Flying Doctor
LHR-KUL and was also invited to the launch party at the UK Ambassador's residence in KL. We also got the water cannons etc on that.
LHR-SCL - no water cannons, very muted and also fun when trying to go through immigration and staff not realising that BA actually had started flying to SCL!
FD.
SCL was during a drought, so the firefighters held up a huge Union flag by the apron instead, there is a photo of it in the SCL inaugural thread - there are quite a few threads on inaugurals in this forum. Plus for 787s I think BA insist on no water canons to avoid accidental damage. The ambassador's party is a common feature of inaugurals, the crew generally get invited, Tehran was the one I remember due to the large armed compound around the faiirly substantial set of buildings involved. I've done about 40 - 50 inaugurals.