One Direction join BA for dinner-date charity flight
There’s only One Direction for this top-selling band – and that’s up.
Up in the air, that is, on a British Ariways charity flight to raise funds for Comic Relief.
The fab five, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik, will be hosting a dinner-date on the BA charter flight on July 21 for eight lucky fans who will have the chance to win tickets in a competition being launched on social media sites today.
Each of the eight winners will be able to take two guests on the hour-long flight, enjoy lunch on board, chat with the band and have photographs taken with them.
At least half of the proceeds from the text-to-win competition will go to Flying Start, British Airways’ global charity partnership with Comic Relief.
Linsey McNeill
Editor Linsey McNeill has been writing about travel for more than three decades. Bylines include The Times, Telegraph, Observer, Guardian and Which? plus the South China Morning Post. She also shares insider tips on thetraveljournalist.co.uk
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