British Airways is offering its frequent flyers the chance to trade in their air miles for a place on a course instructing passengers how to survive plane crashes.
British Airways is offering its frequent flyers the chance to trade in their air miles for a place on a course instructing passengers how to survive plane crashes.
Members of the airline’s Executive Club will be able to benefit from a four-hour session on air safety, when the scheme begins next year.
For around £125 – roughly the same cost as a return trip from London Gatwick to Rome – those who sign up to the courses can learn techniques to increase their chances of surviving a crash.
Andy Clubb, the BA manager running the course, told the Independent: “It makes passengers safer when travelling by giving additional skills and information, it dispels all those internet theories about the ‘brace position, and it just gives people so much more confidence in flying.”
Research into emergency evacuations by the Civil Aviation Authority in 2006 found that a significant number of passengers struggle with the most basic of tasks such as releasing the seat belt.
BA developed a passenger-training programme at the request of BP, which sends staff into remote regions of the world where safety standards are less rigorous.
The course covers basics such as practising releasing the seat belt and checking the location of the life jacket and concludes with a simulated emergency evacuationown the escape slides.
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