License to be petty
British Airways proved how mature they were by editing the latest James Bond movie Casino Royale for in-flight screening on their fleet. Why did they make some edits? Well, they edited a tiny blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo from Richard Branson and also excised the tail fin of an aircraft with logo of Virgin Air glimpsed in the movie. I'm no fan of Branson (especially since his millionaire's pissing contest with Murdoch means I don't get to see certain programmes on cable anymore while he still demands the same amount of money from me for his company for a reduced service) but how damned petty is this? And just think, this is someone's actual job. BA actually pays someone to make petty little cuts like this to in-flight movies. Perhaps if they left that to one side and employed more staff doing proper jobs they wouldn't have the worst record in Europe for losing passenger's baggage? Just a thought.
I seem to remember a few years back on Have I Got News For You, Ian Hislop recounting the story of someone who'd complained about finding glass in his gin and tonic on a BA flight. He was afterwards subject to what sounded like a pretty vicious hate campaign (his car got vandalised, among other things). Though the perps rather gave themselves away by leaving the message "This is what you get when you fuck with British Airways".
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