British Airways Shows Off Its Latest Safety Video

On Monday, British Airways showcased its latest onboard safety video, featuring numerous high profile celebrities including Gordon Ramsay, Sir Ian Mckellen and Rowan Atkinson. The video will be launched onboard British Airways’ aircraft beginning on Sept. 1, 2017.

Rowan Atkinson features in the video (Photo: British Airways)

The short film, directed by Becky Martin, has been produced with the aim of capturing passengers attention and ensuring they are able to react appropriately in the event of an emergency.

The video also highlights the airline’s fundraising efforts with its charity, “Flying Start.” The charity, which was created in 2010, is a result of a global partnership between British Airways and Comic Relief, and has raised £16.5 million since it was founded.

British Airways Chairman and CEO, Alex Cruz noted, “It’s extremely important to us that customers engage with our safety video, and involving some of the nation’s most well-known personalities has  given us the chance to create something fun that we hope people will watch from start to finish and remember.”

The video, which features celebrities such as Gordon Ramsay, Sir Ian Mckellen, Warwick David and Jess Glynne, puts them in an audition style format, as they showcase the aircraft’s safety features in a series of humorous sketches.

The airline hopes that through customers’ donations, which they make by placing spare change of any currency into paper wallets found onboard, that the airline will exceed its goal in raising £20 million by 2020.

All money raised by the charity goes directly to Comic relief, which helps support children living in poverty throughout the globe. There is also a directors cut of the film that will be made available to the public and shown onboard all aircraft beginning in September.

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Joshua Drabble

Josh is a long-term aviation enthusiast and aspiring commercial airline pilot. From a young age, he has immersed himself in all things aviation. From plane spotting at local airports and airfield to racking up frequent flier miles on trips abroad, Josh is a huge AvGeek at heart. He graduated from university in September 2017 with a first class Bachelor of Science degree in Air transport. He completed his pilot training, gaining his Frozen ATPL in November 2017 upon completion of his Multi-Engine Instrument rating and Multi-crew/Jet orientation course. He currently has around 230 hours of flying experience in various aircraft. He hopes to join an airline as a first officer by the end of 2017.

He frequently flies on one of his favorite airlines, British Airways, and is an avid Avios collector and British Airways Executive Club member.
In his spare time, while not studying, flying or immersing himself in aviation he enjoys spending his time volunteering in a variety of roles and running a blog to help other aspiring pilots pursue their dream.

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