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BA worker 'suspended for taking backhanders from celebs'

Old Nov 8, 2015, 11:06 am
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BA worker 'suspended for taking backhanders from celebs'

Daily Mail story here.

Mr Underwood is of course innocent until proven guilty.
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Old Nov 8, 2015, 11:21 am
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Someone with an easily turned head by the sounds of it.

Of more concern is how the Daily Mail gets these stories.
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Old Nov 8, 2015, 11:23 am
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Good to see that being a gold card holder classes you as being "rich and famous".
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Old Nov 8, 2015, 11:28 am
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Perhaps the passengers were Premier card holders, one of whose perks is to have flights held for them...
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Old Nov 8, 2015, 11:30 am
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GCH's are suspiciously absent from this thread.......


Hehehe
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Old Nov 8, 2015, 11:46 am
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Good to see that being a gold card holder classes you as being "rich and famous".
I've misconnected at LHR as an AA EXP, so it's not a OW perk...
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Old Nov 8, 2015, 12:11 pm
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Originally Posted by HIDDY
Of more concern is how the Daily Mail gets these stories.
In this case, they read it in The Sun and found it such good clickbait, they just had to republish it.
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Old Nov 8, 2015, 12:13 pm
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Is Max Mosley involved?
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Old Nov 8, 2015, 12:26 pm
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Good to see that being a gold card holder classes you as being "rich and famous".
It's more likely to gave been a GGL. I know Matt and will be very surprised if these allegations are true.
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Old Nov 8, 2015, 1:05 pm
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Original Sun story here.

Doesn't look good.
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Old Nov 8, 2015, 2:10 pm
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Wouldn't mind backhanding a few of these so called celebs...
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Old Nov 8, 2015, 2:22 pm
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"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.
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Old Nov 8, 2015, 2:24 pm
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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.
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Old Nov 8, 2015, 2:44 pm
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Two sides to every story.
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Old Nov 8, 2015, 3:56 pm
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Originally Posted by drb1979
"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.
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.
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