BA worker 'suspended for taking backhanders from celebs'
 

Daily Mail story here.

Mr Underwood is of course innocent until proven guilty.

Someone with an easily turned head by the sounds of it.

Of more concern is how the Daily Mail gets these stories.

Good to see that being a gold card holder classes you as being "rich and famous".

Perhaps the passengers were Premier card holders, one of whose perks is to have flights held for them...

GCH's are suspiciously absent from this thread.......


Hehehe

I've misconnected at LHR as an AA EXP, so it's not a OW perk...

In this case, they read it in The Sun and found it such good clickbait, they just had to republish it.

Is Max Mosley involved?

It's more likely to gave been a GGL. I know Matt and will be very surprised if these allegations are true.

Original Sun story here.

Doesn't look good.

Wouldn't mind backhanding a few of these so called celebs...

"The walkway had been removed but Mr Underwood ordered it be returned to the side of the jet"

Can this even be done by anybody except the Captain of the flight? I thought the Captain agreed to close the doors once he was informed everything is ready.

I doubt any Captain would allow the doors to opened again just because some passenger is late, unless ordered to do so by somebody suitably senior, and I doubt that would include Special Services.

There is even more than the usual amount of hearsay and circumstantial evidence in this particular Sun article. Suggestion of impropriety on the basis of the zoopla value of somebody's home or the cars in the drive is pretty low.

Two sides to every story.

I've had it done for me before and I'm by no means rich or famous. All really comes down to how lucky you get with the staff on duty.