Do weary businessmen really want to listen to the Jesus and Mary Chain while landing in the rain?
By Patrick Smith Apr. 30, 2004 | Thanks to everybody who voted in the airline survey. The polls close tonight (Friday, April 30) at 23:59:59 UTC. That’s pilot talk for midnight. I’ve been getting a lot of votes from overseas, see, and it makes me feel important to talk in Greenwich time. Your choices for favorite airlines will be unveiled next week; least favorites, the following week. – – – – – – – – – – – – “All art attempts to rid life of banality.” — V. Vale The story, if you weren’t tuned in last time, goes like this: Upon touchdown in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a British Airways steward announces, “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Riyadh. For the correct local time, please set your watch back 300 years.” As these things go, I knew there was a high probability of the tale being apocryphal, but a reader informs us that a version of the event indeed took place, and did involve a B.A. aircraft arriving from London. The setting was not Saudi Arabia, however, but Johannesburg, South Africa
