'A Very British Airline' : BA Documentary, airs BBC2 from Mon 2 June
Jun 5, 2014, 1:00 am
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Jun 5, 2014, 1:10 am
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Jun 5, 2014, 1:22 am
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Jun 5, 2014, 3:58 am
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Every time I heard "snapshots" I thought of Progressive Insurance and Flo (the spokesperson and annoying hawker). Is snapshot a better word for demerit?
I did like the engineering parts.
I wonder if they will do a show on annoying pax or DYKWIA?
I did like the engineering parts.
I wonder if they will do a show on annoying pax or DYKWIA?
Jun 5, 2014, 4:03 am
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Jun 5, 2014, 4:22 am
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God I hope not... That old ITV show "Airline" was basically 30 minutes of complaining and crying pax, who had missed their flight for assorted reasons. Dull, frustrating television.
Passengers are the least interesting thing about an airport documentary!
Passengers are the least interesting thing about an airport documentary!
Jun 5, 2014, 4:33 am
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Easier in a large kitchen where you can experiment than in a cramped space with other people working.
Airline used to show Easyjet in a positive light where they would go out of their way to help people but after some takeovers / rebranding etc., they became "tough s**t!" to just about everyone.
Jun 5, 2014, 4:59 am
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I could be remembering it wrong as I don't recall him actually using those words, but I thought that was during the test flight as well - where the passengers were all BA staff and it never left the ground.
Jun 5, 2014, 5:35 am
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As well as the cringeworthiness of "contracting with each other" (does that mean the crew all go on a team diet?), it was with much frustration that their chef only got to try the ovens in F on the A380 for real when he was on the plane on its first revenue flight to LAX.
This is one of the two fundamental problems with the catering in BA F. As well as the chef not having the same equipment on the ground to test his creations with, I also noticed that the diner on his own testing the food on the ground was, just like the Gatwick telly program a couple of years back, someone who wouldn't know a croquette potato from a confit duck.
And by the way, coincidentally I had confit duck a couple of weeks ago LHR-DFW in F and somewhat unsurprisingly, it was a sorry tale of overdone grey chewy carpet. May be that croquette potato would have been nicer.
(On the plus side I had a yummy braised beef with a spicy sauce JNB-LHR last week in F, but sadly not enough sauce).
This is one of the two fundamental problems with the catering in BA F. As well as the chef not having the same equipment on the ground to test his creations with, I also noticed that the diner on his own testing the food on the ground was, just like the Gatwick telly program a couple of years back, someone who wouldn't know a croquette potato from a confit duck.
And by the way, coincidentally I had confit duck a couple of weeks ago LHR-DFW in F and somewhat unsurprisingly, it was a sorry tale of overdone grey chewy carpet. May be that croquette potato would have been nicer.
(On the plus side I had a yummy braised beef with a spicy sauce JNB-LHR last week in F, but sadly not enough sauce).
I couldn't help thinking also that you can get treated better getting paid more else where....
Jun 5, 2014, 5:40 am
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No shortage of people wanting that over the drudgery that could something like 9-5 behind the tills at Tesco.
Jun 5, 2014, 5:56 am
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I'd like to see some bit of humor in the show. I also would love to see more infrastructure. I know two totally different things, unless the mechanics/engineers have a sense of humor!
Jun 5, 2014, 6:03 am
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Yeah, but as they said (i.e. Jess), and has been said here, the image people get is that it's a glamorous career where you spend a few hours flying somewhere exotic, laze around on a beach for a few days and then fly back again.
No shortage of people wanting that over the drudgery that could something like 9-5 behind the tills at Tesco.
No shortage of people wanting that over the drudgery that could something like 9-5 behind the tills at Tesco.
Also doesn't matter what anybody says unless your other half has money or you are joining later in life having made plenty unfortunately it will attract people with lesser skills, young in experienced people. People who earn a lot or are highly skilled will go elsewhere. A colleague of mine has just left my company, taken a 40k pay cut and gone to MF. She can do it due t her other half.
Jun 5, 2014, 6:11 am
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Jun 5, 2014, 6:14 am
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Not for me. Really not interested in techies playing with engines. Zzzzz.