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Old Nov 2, 2023 | 12:50 am
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Originally Posted by BA6501
Likely by design. BA has a bit of a history in doing this, I believe the first IKA flight was operated by an Iranian captain, and I *think* the GEO inaugural was operated by flight crew originally from there?
Both correct. The GEO service had 2 captains, and the second captain was the UK born son of BOAC's first black captain, his late father was Guyanan and flew the final BOAC/BA service out of GEO.. However despite this younger captain having a Guyana passport, his first ever visit to the country was when he flew the reinstated inaugural service to Georgetown recently.

I think it's not a formal process, it's just that crew can put their name forwards, as this cabin crew member did on Tuesday, and someone drawing up the schedule has a "commonsense" moment.
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