Mayday! BA goes into a tailspin

You remember the scene. Up pops air stewardess Elaine Dickinson on the inflight intercom. “There’s no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you’ll enjoy the rest of your flight,” she says. “By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?”

That was Airplane!, the spoof disaster-movie from 1980. Fast forward two decades and you wonder if you couldn’t find the same comic potential in the current goings-on at British Airways. Once the self-styled “world’s favourite airline”, our national flag-carrier has never been in such a tailspin.
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