British Airways - To Fly To Serve

British Airways is on something of a resurgence.

Its latest advert, shown this week for the first time, is carrying on its predecessors new work in showing BA as a full service carrier, investing in its fleet and product, emphasising Value For Money, not low cost and above all pushing its new slogan To Fly To Serve

To Fly To Serve Advert

BA mainly operate out of London using Heathrow, Gatwick and City Airports, but also Cargo flights out of Stansted are run on a BA liveried B747-8F. BA are park of the ONE World Allicance including major airlines like Cathay Pacific, American Airlines, LATAM, QANTAS and JAL. Their Executive Club rewards can be redeemed on all these carriers. 

After buying bmi last year, the full integration of that carrier has allowed a number of new destinations to be launched such as Leeds-Bradford, Eindhoven, Zagreb and most recently Austin, TX using the newly delivered Boeing 787-8. 

Have a look at some of the best BA images i've taken of British Airways aircraft on the link below. Should you be looking for travel or want to know more about BA, then check out ba.com for pricing and offers.

British Airways Pictures on Plane Sight Images

BA website

An A320 recently arrived at Barcelona

A Boeing triple 7 arrives in Bermuda

During a turnaround in Bermuda this Gatwick based Triple 7 basks in the sunshine

In Innsbruck an A319 awaits de-icing

A Boeing 747-400 in a right turn from runway 09R at Heathrow

American Airlines, a oneworld member, Boeing 777-200 cuts through a contrail leaving Heathrow

A BA 319 leaving Heathrow and an RAF C-17 above

Some friendly crew in Amsterdam

Terror in the Skies - Channel 4, Episode 4

So, today's dose on sensationalized crap, shows a plane struck by lightning. "Stunned onlookers" Basically they had a lightning strike, it overpowered the Circuit Breakers. What I hate is that they just gloss over that the plane lands safely and they say "Everyone Survived". What is the point exactly, what are they trying to say??? They don't mention the fact that there are very few, if any, Lightning strike planes that have crashed, and none in the past 20 years alone!

The China Airlines crash had a lot more factors than the Wind shear alone, the Thomson plane landed safely, the BA plane shook for 10 minutes !!!! All very scary stuff, but surely not enough to draw a conclusion that Aviation and flying is a terrifying event?? Ash forecasting has improved a whole lot more since the BA 747-200 incident south of Indonesia. Yet no more detailed information on ASHTAMS is given. Basically if you want to watch shaky footage of aviation incidents, go on you tube. Its not a basis of a documentary where the title pre-conditions you to feel that 

So please Channel 4 - sod off with your sensationalist crap! Professor Brendon Walker, i'm embarrassed for you

An Austrian Airlines B777-200 cruising high above London - Today!