TV show goes behind the scenes at British Airways
A new TV documentary starts tonight going behind the scenes at British Airways.
The BBC2 series will follow trainee cabin crew, the delivery of the A380 and will take a look inside BA’s first class lounge at Terminal 5.
The programme will reveal that a first-class passenger on a return flight from Heathrow to Los Angeles will have paid almost as much as one of BA’s cabin crew will earn in a year.
The programme makers say it will look at what BA is doing to compete with the likes of easyJet.
"It took a long time to persuade BA to give us access but we are now in the thick of filming," said Nick Catliff, managing director for Lion Television.
"BA is a business of course but it’s also an iconic British institution with a unique culture and history.
"This is just the right moment to be going to the heart of BA as it handles difficult transformational changes and introduces new planes, flies to new destinations, trains new staff and deals with everything from cyclones and bird strikes to demanding first-class passengers and fierce competition."
The first episode of the three-part series airs tonight at 9pm.
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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