[Announcement] This is a special flight this evening: as part of our centenary commemorations
we've organised a series of one-off events to celebrate, and to showcase the very
best of British Airways. This flight is crewed by a very special team: all your
cabin crew this evening have been selected on the count of unique and long
lasting links with the airline. In more than one case, this involves two generations
of the same family working together tonight. The cabin crew this evening will
be doing their very best to exemplify the characteristics we embrace at this
company and to deliver the service you both expect and deserve. Sit back, relax and
enjoy the flight with us this evening.
[Donna] My name's Donna and I'm a Worldwide CSL...
[Ellie] I'm Ellie... I'm on Mixed Fleet main crew...
[Together] ...and we're mother and daughter. [Donna] Yeah, mother and daughter
[Karen] I'm Karen Nicholls, I'm a Cabin Service Director on Worldwide, and this is my daughter Victoria Nicholls.
[Nikki] I'm Nikki and I am Chris' daughter.
[Karen] There's mother and daughter in First, mother and daughter in Club, and mother and daughter in World Traveller.
[Keith] It's really unique, I must admit I've
never had anything like it. There's something about the bonds between the
family members on board... that acts as an extra level of camaraderie.
[Nikki] Alongside mum, her brother is also a Cabin Service Director for us on Worldwide fleet
and he has been flying since the early eighties, I believe...
yeah, the early eighties, so a long time.
But also, a very special man, very dear to our
hearts, my grandad and your dad, he was an engineer for BA and we lost him a year ago
so this would be a very proud moment for him today to have us flying together.
[Donna] I met my husband 30 years ago and we got married; we flew on married
rosters for 12 years. Ellie used to come all over the world
with us, as did the children. My brother worked on the ground and her father is a
training captain on the triple seven.
[Alexandra] We have histories throughout our family
with British Airways going back to my mum and it was from her joining BA that got
me interested in the role. And so as soon as I turned 18
I became cabin crew and that's where I am today, because of her.
[Beverly] My father-in-law, he joined the
airline as an engineering apprentice, and his brother, and they both did over 45
years starting with Scottish Airlines and then it became British Airways.
[Carrie] This is my memorabilia from over the years. When my father was based in Hong Kong we used to
fly backwards and forwards on the jumbo jet and I think it has just about been
brought into service, and now I'm working on it: it's sort of [...] it's quite
bizarre, but I love these photos and we even have a jumbo jet that they've
repainted in this retro Landor livery.
[Lisa] I grew up with British Airways, with BOAC, with my father who was in the airline as a pilot,
and he's no longer with us anymore, and I know that he'd be absolutely thrilled.
[Chris] Everybody's just lovely. It's so unique to get the opportunity to fly with
mums, with their daughters. [Nikki] Very special, very privileged within our roles to be able to do that really.
[Donna] We're joined at the hip together!
We've been working in same cabin, on the same side...
so that's been good, hasn't it? [Ellie] Really lovely.
[Donna] And on the trolley, she's even calling me mother [laughter].
[Karen] She's bossing me around in the galley.
[Keith] The customers have definitely noticed: we've had people coming up to us saying
"so what's going on today? This crew are unbelievable, what's happening? Who are
you all? When can I fly with you again?" So yeah, really, really special.
[Brian] There's real buzz about the plane... the staff are really buzzing, it's because there's so much happening.
[Donna] Well it's been phenomenal. On the drive in the car on the way here, Ellie actually said
"Mum, this is a dream come true, so I feel really proud, very excited we've had a
really nice time. [Ellie] I think, as well, we wouldn't normally
ever be able to fly with each other, being on different fleets, so having the chance to
fly with each other is just amazing.