Transmission date for BBC ‘fly on the wall’ series on British Airways announced

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• Nick says:

  25 May25 May 07:16

  It’ll be interesting to see how much editorial control BA/IAG may have had in the content. I’d doubt they’d have agreed to something like this without any say in to what is included in the programmes.

  • TimS says:

    25 May25 May 07:30

    With some of the things going on behind the scenes at BA over that period i expect they had significant editorial control.

    I expect they will also have blocked access to certain divisions of BA/IAG from the outset.

  • Rob says:

    25 May25 May 09:27

    BA put out a press release saying how much they were looking forward to everyone seeing what a good ship they run (to paraphrase) so I imagine the answer is ‘high’.

    • Alan says:

      25 May25 May 11:04

      No coverage of the engine cowling that flew off I suspect then 😛

      • TimS says:

        25 May25 May 13:53

        Unlikely, but there will be whole divisions of BA that will have been off-limits to the producers i expect.

        Access will have been carefully cherry-picked by BA as a condition of the informercial, sorry, “documentary” based on what they saw to be commercially advantageous a year or so ago.

• Dave says:

  25 May25 May 13:14

  The week after is a fly in the food series on Baxter Storey.

• Kevinz says:

  25 May25 May 14:56

  was the lauch a disaster? the Chengdu route. I was on the Chengdu flight during X’mas time, and return after new year. I was surprised to see the business class seats full packed with paying Chinese passengers. It must be doing well, as BA increased frequency too.

  • Rob says:

    25 May25 May 21:53

    Let’s just say that I was being very generous when I said some loads were 50. It is worse.

• Sam Sienna says:

  26 May26 May 09:32

  I wouldn’t imagine Willie Walsh has built IAG up into the most valuable airline company in Europe by launching routes that don’t make commercial sense ?

  • Rob says:

    26 May26 May 09:34

    Subsidy ….?

    A lot of BA routes are underwritten. If Glaxo or BP want BA to fly somewhere, BA does it – as long as the company guarantees a minimum level of business.

    Governments can do the same.

  • TimS says:

    26 May26 May 22:40

    There are plenty loss-making routes that BA continue to fly.

    I am aware of one route where BA have allegedly spoken to a competitor and suggested that if the competitor wanted to increase frequency BA would willingly step aside.

• gnarlyoldgoatdude says:

  26 May26 May 21:16

  Wasn’t there a fire/evacuation at waterside during the filming? That could be fun.

• andy stock says:

  27 May27 May 00:05

  How is the Leeds route doing, to me it is a complete waste of slots and would rather they increase flights to Prague / Budapest as my recent flights on BA to these destinations have been rammed full!

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