BA sat corpse in first class

Make credence recognised that on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:50:23 -0000,
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"Deeply Filled Mortician" wrote
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I very much doubt that. Have you got a source?
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Go to BA.com and price it yourself. I used out date 15 December, return date
15 January. Cost £7375.80. I await your apology.

From the BA website I got:

From Heathrow to Sydney:
Thu
20 Dec From £2384

From Sydney to Heathrow:
Sun
20 Jan From £2384

Total: £4768
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Make credence recognised that on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:14:12 +1100,
"glenn P" has scripted:

What a ****. You have either never flown 1/2nd, or have no idea at all.

You're binned!

Man, there are some serious dickheads in that r.t.a. group.
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"Deeply Filled Mortician" wrote
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Make credence recognised that on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:50:23 -0000,
"JohnT" has scripted:


"Deeply Filled Mortician" wrote
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I very much doubt that. Have you got a source?
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Go to BA.com and price it yourself. I used out date 15 December, return
date
15 January. Cost £7375.80. I await your apology.

From the BA website I got:

From Heathrow to Sydney:
Thu
20 Dec From £2384

From Sydney to Heathrow:
Sun
20 Jan From £2384

Total: £4768
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The £7000 rtn fare did not surprise me at all.

I just tried those exact dates (20/12/07 & 20/01/08) on the BA site and got
£3688 each way in first and £2964 each way in Business. In both cases I
clicked the Flexible button (flexible on changing dates I assume).

Selecting Cheapest (the default) instead of Flexible gave £1705 e/w in
Business and £2384 e/w in 1st, the same as you got.

So everyone seems to be right in their own way.






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"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message
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Rubba Luva wrote:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle1530572.ece

From The Sunday Times
March 18, 2007
BA sat corpse in first class
Steven Swinford

Paul Trinder, who awoke to see the body at the end of his row, last
week described the journey as "deeply disturbing", and complained that
the airline dismissed his concerns by telling him to "get over it".

"It was a complete mess - they seemed to have no proper plans in place
to deal with the situation," said Trinder, 54, a businessman from
Brackley, Northamptonshire.

No "proper plans in place"? How often does ANY airline have a passenger
die in transit? (It really doesn't seem the sort of event for which
advance planning would be given priority!)

I don't think it is so rare. There are so many thousands of long haul
flights per day, some people stressed, cramped seating, poor circulation,
etc.
A friend used to do Hadj flights from Indonesia to Saudi and said deaths on
the plane were quite common (many passenger being very old and probably
often stressed). She said they usually tried to pretend the body was just
asleep until they got back to Jakarta, as a death could mean too much
paperwork and delays in Saudi.
I assume that the crew would try to keep these events as quiet as possible,
but this BA case seems to show the opposite, moving the unfortunate lady
from economy through business up to 1st.. I wonder why they didn't use one
of the crew sleeping cubicles (in the back on a 747 I think)

I have been on at least one plane with a dead guy - but he died just before
landing (suicide!) so storing the body wasn't an issue.




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"Padraig Breathnach" wrote in message
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"Newby" wrote:

Why didn't they keep the body in Coach and move some live passengers into
First Class to make the needed space?

Why should they? Because people in the back of the plane paid less
than £3000 for their tickets?

[snipped]

No, it keeps the dead body in the seat that it paid for. What is the
rationale for moving it to first class instead of moving living passengers
to first class?

"Deeply Filled Mortician" wrote
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Make credence recognised that on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:50:23 -0000,
"JohnT" has scripted:


"Deeply Filled Mortician" wrote
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I very much doubt that. Have you got a source?
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Go to BA.com and price it yourself. I used out date 15 December, return
date
15 January. Cost £7375.80. I await your apology.

From the BA website I got:

From Heathrow to Sydney:
Thu
20 Dec From £2384

From Sydney to Heathrow:
Sun
20 Jan From £2384

Total: £4768
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FROM £2384 one way. That is the cheap end of the price range.

JohnT

"Newby" wrote:

"Padraig Breathnach" wrote in message
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"Newby" wrote:

Why didn't they keep the body in Coach and move some live passengers into
First Class to make the needed space?

Why should they? Because people in the back of the plane paid less
than £3000 for their tickets?

[snipped]

No, it keeps the dead body in the seat that it paid for. What is the
rationale for moving it to first class instead of moving living passengers
to first class?

What is the rationale for moving living passengers rather than a dead
body? Should not those living passengers be kept in the seats that
they paid for?

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"irwell" wrote in message
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On 18 Mar 2007 18:09:11 -0700, "PeterL" wrote:

On Mar 18, 5:54 pm, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote:
Rubba Luva wrote:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle1530572.ece

From The Sunday Times
March 18, 2007
BA sat corpse in first class
Steven Swinford
Paul Trinder, who awoke to see the body at the end of his row, last
week described the journey as "deeply disturbing", and complained that
the airline dismissed his concerns by telling him to "get over it".

"It was a complete mess - they seemed to have no proper plans in place
to deal with the situation," said Trinder, 54, a businessman from
Brackley, Northamptonshire.

No "proper plans in place"? How often does ANY airline have
a passenger die in transit? (It really doesn't seem the
sort of event for which advance planning would be given
priority!)

Why not? This would not be common but it does happen.
Burial at sea, usually chucked overboard with the Captain saying a few
words.

Grow up, son.

EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:


No "proper plans in place"? How often does ANY airline have a passenger
die in transit? (It really doesn't seem the sort of event for which
advance planning would be given priority!)

Here's an excerpt from AEDinfo.com:

"The Airline Passenger Safety Act, enacted in April 1998, requires the
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to review the contents of medical
kits carried on commercial airplanes. Administrative rules proposed by
the FAA as required by this law would mandate that every commercial
aircraft be equipped with specified life-saving equipment and
appropriately stocked first-aid and medical kits, including AEDs
[defibrillators], and that flight crew members be trained in their use.
It is estimated that 1,000 persons die each year due to cardiac arrest
suffered on international commercial airline carriers. More and more
airlines are equipping their fleets with AEDs."

Reading the last sentence makes me think that this text hasn't been
revised recently. I believe all US commercial airplanes now carry
defibrillators. Admittedly, the incident described by the OP took place
on a BA carrier. Notwithstanding the high incidence of American obesity,
I've got to assume lots of carriers are similarly equipped because
they've got similar problems.

Karen Selwyn

Make credence recognised that on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:08:08 -0000,
"JohnT" has scripted:


"Deeply Filled Mortician" wrote
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Make credence recognised that on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:50:23 -0000,
"JohnT" has scripted:


"Deeply Filled Mortician" wrote
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I very much doubt that. Have you got a source?
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Go to BA.com and price it yourself. I used out date 15 December, return
date
15 January. Cost £7375.80. I await your apology.

From the BA website I got:

From Heathrow to Sydney:
Thu
20 Dec From £2384

From Sydney to Heathrow:
Sun
20 Jan From £2384

Total: £4768
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FROM £2384 one way. That is the cheap end of the price range.

I did a similar trip a few years back, not in first class, but with a
lot of stop offs along the way, and some internal flights in Oz. It
costed around £1800.

I'd love to know just what you get for the extra £5000 quid nowadays,
excluding the corpse.
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