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Old Nov 24, 2006 | 9:56 am
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Originally Posted by GUWonder
... have parents/guardians sign off on waivers/clauses that note the limited functions BA is responsible for and what functions BA is not responsible for in an UM program and what potential dangers there are...
Whatever the position may be in the US, those sort of waiver clauses are worth diddly zip under UK law if the personal injury has been caused by negligence.

So, under your proposals, we are left with scrap the UM programme.

Ask yourself, which is the more absurd result of the so-called "PC-madness", a simple (but imperfect) policy for child protection or scrapping all UMs for fear of causing offence to male pax?

Originally Posted by GUWonder
So should adult women, in particular, traveling by themselves on planes now have their own section of the plane as well -- like say in the back of the flying bus -- so that BA isn't accused of failing to do enough to prevent their molestation too?
Do you really need an answer to that?

Unlike female adult pax, BA is in a sort of loco parentis situation (with an enhanced duty of care) with UMs.
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