London – After a monumental screw up for airline British Airways they have been left feeling quite embarrassed after using a boarding pass issued to terrorist Osama Bin Laden to promote their latest ticketing service
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The suspect boarding pass included a frequent flyer number for Bin Laden indicating the British Airways was the carrier of choice for Bin Laden, to rub further salt in the wound the ticket was also for first class issued to seat number 7C.
The boarding pass ticket is for a Northwest Airlines flight to Washington DC, taking Bin Laden pretty close to the Pentagon, part of which was devastated by a plane hijacked by Al Qaeda terrorists on September 11 2001.
The memorable marketing piece depicts a smiling check-in member greeting a happy passenger while another holds the trendy iPhone up to the camera, displaying the boarding pass. The image was displayed on the ‘front page’ of LHR News, a internal staff magazine covering Heathrow Airport.
Trying to wiggle out of the monumental screw up, the airline are trying to use a staff member as a escape goat, sighting the fact that after the last round of strikes, a disgruntled employee may have doctored the image.
The incident has done no favours to already scrutinised security and has raised concerns that terrorists may find is easier to get a legitimate boarding pass using a mobile phone. A BA spokesman said the company is investigating the incident.
Did they get through security??
Someone bin dozin’
It’ll never happen…they’re always on strike!
Very old hat, The picture you have seen was made indiacting northwest airlines was the carrier..see the frequent flyer number and NWA top right? also if you google this it leads to a page that explains it was made some time ago and removed at the behest of the FBI and TSA. This was not issued to a person, it is likely a disgruntled employee copied it from the website and posted it hoping to harm BA’s image. The police are investigating.
He’s been in Indianapolis all this time, right under our noses.
I would not be surprised if the person at the check in counter knew that he had a Bin Laden passport (they had to have known), but they had too be politically correct and let the “nice” peaceful Muslim on board we can`t cas vshalom question him, it would be “profiling”. What have we came too, they say when your open minded your brain falls out, no joke this people are so naive. We have to wake up, and stop being so politically correct!!!! what have we come to!!!!!!
Isn’t he on some sort of watch list?