Blowing The Chute. British Airways Haiti Relief Flight 16-18Jan2010

[madmaxly]

So much for BA being in financial trouble!! They seem to still be able to afford to send a 747 and deploy slides that cost a small fortune to repack!! They should stop publicity stunts and work at restoring their 'once great' service.

[meetsmost]

think the people in Haiti would not class it as a publicity stunt. Such a stupid comment to make....not the only world wide airline to have done this...idiot!

[yaseenkhan123]

i rember when i jumepd from slideraft of a aircraft and it was a good experiance

[ch0du]

were you legal to fly with 11 slides?

[stevehindy39]

The aircraft was more than likely flying back empty anyway, although if it was returning with pax ...the number of pax carried would have to be reduced as a result of an inoperative exit. I would have imagined they would also have flown with an engineer on board. Hope this answers your question

[ch0du]

thanks!

[Stratoliner777]

I'm guessing that they repacked the slide afterwards and it will be tested and reused.

[stevehindy39]

Slide would have been removed and thrown in the hold I guess and replaced on return to the uk.

[AlanUK78]

OUch! How expensive is that?!

[PhilG380]

Very expensive. Anywhere between 20,000-50,000USD. (Per slide). And there are 12 of them on the 747-400.

[PhilG380]

Of course, BA and any other airline are probably given heavy tax write-offs by their respective governments for these flights.

[flyerholland]

very nice!