a flea in BA's ear arms and all over

wanderer


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Message Posted:
25/02/2011 18:05

A British Airways passenger badly bitten by 'bed bugs' on up to two of the airline's long-haul flights has set up a website to tell the world of her nightmare ordeal.

Fed up with the poor response by BA's customer services department, business executive Zane Selkirk, 28, who lives in Los Angeles and has dual British and US nationality, posted her story and graphic photographs of the bites all over her body on her specially created internet site.

Miss Selkirk, an executive with computer giant Yahoo's media group, writes on her website - called http://www.ba-bites.com - that she set it up 'after two horrendous flights' taken with BA in January and February.

As a result of her online protest, BA took two Boeing 747-400 Jumbo jets out of service and confirmed bugs had been found on one of them.





Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1360492/British-Airways-apologises-passenger-bitten-bed-bugs.html#ixzz1EzGq1yuq

wanderer


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Message Posted:
25/02/2011 18:07

http://www.ba-bites.com/

yenibob


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Message Posted:
25/02/2011 18:29

This site would have to close if it wasn't for idiots with nothing to say and the Daily Mail. God bless em!



Were they Cypriot bed bugs?

davedee



Joined: 01/12/2008
Posts: 479

Message Posted:
25/02/2011 18:49

No not Cypriot bugs as far as i can make out ! more down market came from Luton I think.

Brinsley


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Message Posted:
25/02/2011 23:20

USA/UK dual passport holder? Bull! Unless the rules have changed in recent times, the 'Septic Tanks' only allow an American passport holder to hold only ONE passport, giving up any rights to dual/multiple nationality and the retention of any other passport than the Yank one.



Richard

No1Doyen


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Message Posted:
25/02/2011 23:33

That's why I stopped flying first class. )

wanderer


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Message Posted:
26/02/2011 02:01

No1 spot on but sometimes the fleas flee 1st class ) ) ) )

Seriously there is a major New York problem with bed bugs state wide

It is also now affecting London hotels as well so beware

I would think the aircraft issue has been because they are saving on fuel and causing the planes to be over warm through not changing the air the higher the oil price the more the risk

Krin52


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Message Posted:
26/02/2011 08:22

Sorry Brinsley, Americans ARE able to have dual passports - for at least 15 years or so

deputydawg


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Message Posted:
26/02/2011 09:54

"The bedbugs were perhaps not Cypriot and could have come from Luton" ? Methinks they could then be Irish, West Indian, Indian, Pakistani, Japanese, Polish, etc etc and the least likely English. I also doubt that these nasty little bugs (short for buggers?) are capable of discerning whether or not a victim is of dual nationality and do not check passports before inflicting pain and infection.