Originally Posted by Longtail

I find it very odd that a BA forum isn't a place to note an interesting and very uncommon experience when flying BA. Especially a safety related one. But again someone with a perfectly reasonable issue for discussion is being told to go away and accused of looking for an attaboy. Such a bizarre way to respond to them. Maybe I'm crazy but perhaps, just perhaps, they thought they might get some useful advice here rather than being ridiculed.

I think it's an extremely generous interpretation to say that the IFL was looking out if the window out of concern for safety. Given none of us were there, and the OP was, perhaps we shouldn't be inventing our own scenarios and then acting as they were fact with which to dismiss their concern. From their report my impression is that, at least the second time, the IFL knew exactly what was going on.

Why is it so predictable how these threads will go? A non well known member posts an issue, and gets told they have got it all wrong and actually people who weren't there somehow know what was actually happening and they should never have come to the forum at all. Not exactly welcoming is it? Yet somehow it is allowed to happen every time. I also don't see why they are being told it has to be dealt with in the moment or never. Firstly, I can imagine what kind of reception a passenger might get from the crew if they raise this at the time. Noone wants to make their own flight uncomfortable. Secondly, if it leads to a reminder being sent internally that might be useful; it might suggest a wider lapse in focus on the importance of the safety briefing.

Maybe you could ask the OP if there was any chance your invented scenario had happened? Out of interest, would your opinion change if it turns out they were definitely just having a curious look at the royals and missed part of the briefing to do?.