Seeing as most big organisations seem to have a policy for every eventuality...(please don't take this post toooooo seriously )

When do BA decide it is necessary to spray the aircraft cabin with pesticide?

Just returned on PLS-LHR. Departed PLS at 19:25 which is about 2:25 after sunset...so just the right time for those pesky mosquitos to swarm around.

Was about a 300-400 yard walk outside from the gate to the aircraft that had arrived on its leg from NAS. It sat around with the cabin doors open whilst refeulling, loading etc.

No prizes for guessing the next bit...the cabin (at least WT but would expect the rest as well) had lots of new flying/biting friends on board. Wasn't too long before they had a couple of hundred meals walking up the steps. (Even the mosquitos avoid the All Day Deli )

So once the cabin doors were shut for the 12 hr flight the fun started.

Front WT cabin I visually locked-on to around 20-30 "friends" within the first few minutes. Fortunately still had the DEET handy in my carry-on luggage.

The crew seemed to be the first victims (luckily they escaped about an hour later on at NAS stop)...but fresh food arrived for the "friends" in the form of the NAS-LHR crew. They appeared much sweeter so must have been the BA cheesecake desert.

Feeding activity appeared to die down after four hours or so, suspect this was a combination of too much food and creative use of high-velocity High-Life magazines (Shopping the World appears slightly too thin and lightweight for effective mosquito termination).

It was also an old 767 with the cute dummy panels where the in-seat screen should have been and didnt have NCW.

Enhancement for when it gets its NCW re-fit might be integrated mosquito nets for the premium cabins

Anyhow, guess i need to be slightly more serious...I remember being on the old LHR-SEZ that stopped en-route in NBO. At NBO (in both directions) the cabin was sprayed. Is this only done in places that might have Malaria or Yellow Fever or something equally as nasty???