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BA sat corpse in first class
"Padraig Breathnach" wrote in message The thing that gets to me about the treatment of this story is the apparent focus on the comfort of one passenger and the lack of interest in the loss of a life and the understandable grief of the bereaved. Even Trinder's claim about the body decaying and giving rise to health and safety risks was quoted without being questioned or challenged. Sure, it was disturbing for him, but perhaps if he had seen how much less distressing his situation was than was that of the bereaved family he would have kept his mouth shut rather than run off to same pal in the media to show how selfish he is. As BA apparently said, he should get over it. Amen! Where is the compassion for the family? Why are so many inconvenienced by and insensitive to someone else's tragedy anymore? Today's media thrives on this type of thing. --Jean |
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BA sat corpse in first class
padraig plonks on topic and feeds the OT trolls along with diva thing.
Good man. "Padraig Breathnach" a écrit dans le message de news: ... "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? The thing that gets to me about the treatment of this story is the apparent focus on the comfort of one passenger and the lack of interest in the loss of a life and the understandable grief of the bereaved. Even Trinder's claim about the body decaying and giving rise to health and safety risks was quoted without being questioned or challenged. Sure, it was disturbing for him, but perhaps if he had seen how much less distressing his situation was than was that of the bereaved family he would have kept his mouth shut rather than run off to same pal in the media to show how selfish he is. As BA apparently said, he should get over it. -- PB The return address has been MUNGED My travel writing: http://www.iol.ie/~draoi/ |
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BA sat corpse in first class
Make credence recognised that on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:50:23 -0000,
"JohnT" has scripted: "Deeply Filled Mortician" wrote in message ... I very much doubt that. Have you got a source? -- 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 -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |
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BA sat corpse in first class
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. -- --- DFM - http://www.deepfriedmars.com --- -- |
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BA sat corpse in first class
"Deeply Filled Mortician" wrote in message ... Make credence recognised that on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:50:23 -0000, "JohnT" has scripted: "Deeply Filled Mortician" wrote in message ... I very much doubt that. Have you got a source? -- 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 -- 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. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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BA sat corpse in first class
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message ... 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. -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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BA sat corpse in first class
"Padraig Breathnach" wrote in message ... "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? |
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BA sat corpse in first class
"Deeply Filled Mortician" wrote in message ... Make credence recognised that on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:50:23 -0000, "JohnT" has scripted: "Deeply Filled Mortician" wrote in message ... I very much doubt that. Have you got a source? -- 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 -- FROM £2384 one way. That is the cheap end of the price range. JohnT |
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BA sat corpse in first class
"Newby" wrote:
"Padraig Breathnach" wrote in message .. . "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? -- PB The return address has been MUNGED My travel writing: http://www.iol.ie/~draoi/ |
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