British Airways passengers served KFC on flight | UK News

It’s not every day you see KFC on the menu on board a British Airways flight.

But that’s exactly what passengers were served on one plane from the Caribbean to the UK after the in-flight meal was deemed unsafe to eat.

With the catering carts not chilling food properly and rendering it inedible, the cabin crew had to act quickly to stop people going hungry.

So when the pilot made a scheduled stop-off in Nassau in the Bahamas, the air hosts rushed to the fast food restaurant at the tiny airport to stock up on buckets of chicken.

They then handed out a piece to everyone during the 12-hour journey from the island of Turks and Caicos to London Heathrow on Sunday. 

Footage and pictures showed staff using tongs to pass chicken to passengers on the Boeing 777 flight BA252.

Since word got out about what happened, though, their decision has caused quite the stir.

Some have praised the fact that staff managed to serve some form of food, while others were finger lickin’ furious.

Ian Morgan was particularly unimpressed and wrote on Instagram: ‘They got KFC buckets and handed out ONE chicken leg per passenger. An absolute disgrace.’

Andrew Bailey also wasn’t best pleased at the small portions and wrote on Twitter: ‘BA had to serve @kfc at Nassau giving some lucky passengers 1 piece of chicken. 

‘The container with the plane catering wasn’t chilled so all thrown away!!’

Another replied: ‘We were on this same flight. Laughable. People with medical conditions left without any food or proper refreshments.’

Any vegetarians and vegans on the flight also wouldn’t have been able to enjoy the Colonel’s famous dish.

By contrast, however, others were quick to applaud the BA workers, who ‘did the best they could given the circumstances’, according to one traveller. 

They told The Sun: ’The intense heat out there made the food unsafe and BA didn’t want to chance the whole flight getting sick. 

‘This was their only option to ensure everyone stayed safe but didn’t starve.’

Another added: ‘The same people moaning would be moaning even louder if they hadn’t been provided any food.

‘At least an alternative was provided in the circumstances and I’d imagine some further sort of compensation would have been doled out.’

Following the disruption, which caused a one hour delay to the remaining eight hours and 20 minutes flight time, BA reportedly offered refreshment vouchers as compensation.

British Airways opted to see the funny side and issued a tongue in cheek statement.

A spokesperson said: ‘Our teams sprung into action and made sure our customers had something to eat.

‘We apologise to customers that their full meal service was not available and we had to wing it on this occasion. 

‘We’re sorry if we ruffled any feathers.’

Earlier this year, a family were left devastated after ordering £36.99 worth of chicken from KFC and only a few pieces turned up.

British Airways was also forced to ground a flight last month after a mystery ‘weird smell’ made passengers ‘feel sick’.

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