Mike - Maybe when you travelled the food service company in the UK was on strike (about 6 months ago). The food on BA is the same as the passengers get in First Class and I think it's the best I've ever had. I see you are from the US - 6 months ago I flew from Hawaii to Los Angeles (about 12 hrs) with Continental and all they gave me was a bag of pretzels and M & M's for dinner???? None of the other flights were much better ( a microwaved hamburger and a bag of potato chips if I was lucky) - so in my opinion BA beats Continental.

through every page of every magazine, every possible nook and crany. She kept complaining about my passport, it had multiple entry and exit stamps but she wouldn't stop complaining that the corner was coming apart and why didn't I have a better passport. Finally, I just stood my ground, and told her, "You want to see a nice new passport, put me on the plane and I'll get a new one in America. Its almost ten years old, you want it to look brand new? You always see ten year old passports that look new? You want to see a new one, put me on the plane and I'll show it to you when I come back." I was just as pushy as a secular Israeli and she told me I could go, after more than a half hour. Better that much security than they are so nice some scumbag with a bomb gets on and destroys everyone on the plane. I didn't like standing there for a half hour but that is what the arabs have brought to the entire world since 9/11. The arabs feel humiliated, too bad, they created this need on 9/11.

most of the security personnel is "Muslim" - it's mostly white people who are in for "selection".