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British Airways lets Osama Bin Laden try their new mobile boarding pass solution [Updated]
In a serious case of "what were they thinking", a British Airways company magazine used a boarding pass issued to Osama Bin Laden to show off their latest mobile ticketing service.
The name was obviously put there as a joke, but the timing couldn't be any worse - a month after severe disruptions caused by volcanic ash, British Airways is now in the middle of a series of five day strikes - so customer satisfaction is already at a pretty low point.
A British Airways spokeswoman told ABC News that "A mistake has been made in this internal publication and we are working to find out how this occurred".
According to the boarding pass, Mr Bin Laden flies in First class, and has a frequent flier number with Northwest Airlines. Sadly, knowing the brilliant minds behind the anti-terror organizations, the terror level will be raised to "red hot" on October 26 2010 while airport police all around the world try to figure out which airport the most wanted terrorist in the world will be flying to.
UPDATE from @BritishAirways, via their Twitter stream --
@Gadling A mistake has been made in this internal publication and we are working to find out how this occurred.
British Airways N.A.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Grant Martin Jun 1st 2010 12:46PM
It seems that Bin Laden has a Northwest frequent flyer number. Gotta save up those miles!
Dunk Jun 1st 2010 10:33PM
Bin Laden was sitting in 7C? Can you imagine if your seat was in 7B, right next to that smelly, disgusting, piece of filthy crap? Die and rot in hell, Bin Laden, you jerkoff.
Alex Shaw Jun 1st 2010 8:41PM
Sorry they did not have a sense of humor. Anyone would know that was a sick joke.
Jim Jun 1st 2010 8:50PM
Oh big deal, get over yourselves!
ss Jun 1st 2010 11:43PM
You are a idiot..Man the left has become so anti AMERICAN that it is unbelievable that you morons dont move to Venezuela?
Don Mack Jun 1st 2010 8:54PM
It would be quite difficult for the late Osama bin Laden to be a frequent flier when he's been dead for some time now. At some point in time, maybe 2002-2004?, a foreign correspondent for the New York Times wrote an article stating that bid Laden had been killed during one of our massive air strikes in Afghanistan and was buried in the hills.
Think about it. You haven't seen any movies of him since that period of time, have you? All the messages are done on tape with no picture of the person saying it. And besides, bid Laden had to have a dialysis machine with him, so I doubt he'd be that hard to spot if he were alive. Look how easily they found Saddam Hussein from little particles of clothing. They're both dead and the world is a better place without these two morons.
SML Jun 1st 2010 9:21PM
Yeah--and Bush said that he found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. What Republican Kool-Aid have you been gulping?
Gary Jun 2nd 2010 2:32AM
Hello Don: Well you're "half right",,, in that Sadam Heussen is indeed dead (he's been dead for over 3 years now). But what makes you so sure that Osama bin Laden is dead? I have no doubt that within 24 hours after discovery of Osama's "deceased state" (by the very first, Earthly soul), the news would've spread like wildfire and would've covered all nooks & crannies of the globe! Thank about it! Now that may be true,, that we have NOT seen any actual "video" of Osama,, since late 2001,, but that is most definitely his voice that we've heard on the "Osama bin Laden" audio-tapes,,, over about the past 8 years (including a very recent audio-tape,, where he addressed "President Barrack Obama"). Osama has not done an updated video because he is smart enought to know that that would "risk" his whereabouts being detected! Furthermore,, let me say that Osama NEVER had a "kidney condition", he was never on Dialisis, that was all just a "front". He has always been in near "perfect" health,, including today, Summer 2010. I hate to burst your bubble, but Osama bin Laden IS still very much alive today,,, he's very well hidden and protected,, while at the same time,, he still remains astronomically "powerful" and "dangerous"!
Art Jun 2nd 2010 5:23AM
They found Saddam Hussein in his HOMETOWN...Personally, i believe Usama Bin Ladin was killed in Tora Bora. The other crazy guy Abu Nidal (Black September) was found dead in Baghdad in 2002.
MIKE Jun 1st 2010 10:06PM
AND THE DUMBASS DOTH KEEP ON A COMING
tony Jun 1st 2010 11:34PM
To me thats just the government insulting us, deeply think about it, an thats just makin fun of us. The government keeps us blind, and we cant reject what we dont know.
heidi Jun 2nd 2010 12:13AM
If I was sitting next to him on the plane he would be leaving the plane in a box,guaranteed.
waterdog49 Jun 2nd 2010 12:32AM
British Petroleum. British Airways. Is there something in your water that makes you this way? For the sake of us all, you better start looking into it!
D Jun 2nd 2010 1:11AM
Aw man THAT IS HILARIOUS!! God, who the hell wouldn;t find this funny? OSama Bin Laden is one sick dude who I would murder instantly if I ever saw him.
Momar Adif Ahkmed Muhammed Jun 3rd 2010 12:24AM
I had gay sex with bin laden on numerous occasions. The guy is (and was) a closet homosexual.
hockibabe Jun 2nd 2010 1:05AM
In these times, I NEVER joke about ANYTHING when I fly. I see NO reason to joke.
Why in the world would British Airways use something that is so offensive to the victim's of 9/11? I find it in poor taste...They could have thought of something else like Queen Elizabeth...or Camilla Parker Bowles...
MP Jun 2nd 2010 1:21AM
Osama bin Laden is NOT WANTED for the attacks on 9/11. LOOK at the FBI's official Wanted poster for him (revised in Nov. 2001) and see for yourself: http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/topten/fugitives/laden.pdf
cqdeed Jun 2nd 2010 1:21AM
And here you have been telling the world that Americans are the sickos. HA.
KKK-Southwest Jun 2nd 2010 5:06AM
Americans are the sickos in this world.
Tom Jun 5th 2010 12:28AM
I'd feel safe if he sat next to me on the plane. Unlike those idiots who work for him, Ben Laden never puts his own life a risk. And besides, I could use that $3 million reward I would make for turning him in.