British Airways spends up to £32k on Ipads for business flights

AS LOW-COST AIRLINES COLLAPSE leaving travellers stranded on holidays in Spain, British Airways is bucking the trend by spending around £32,000 on adding Ipads to its business flights.

BA is adding a £500 Ipad for each passenger on its twice daily flight from London and New York on 32 seats in each plane. If there were two of these planes, then BA could have spent around £32,000 on adding the devices.

Even if only one plane is doing the twice a daily flight, BA will have spent £16,000, which is quite a lot by anyone's standards. The airline will make it back pretty sharpish though, as it charges about £2,500 per person for the flight.

On boarding a flight, each customer will be handed an Ipad, pre-loaded with 64GB of films, TV and games from British Airways' in-flight entertainment service for the duration of the flight by cabin crew.

The service, between London and New York's JFK Airport, features 32 fully flat seats and operates using flight numbers previously assigned to the Concorde.

Nice for those who can afford it, but we are wondering whether BA's efforts are somewhat pointless and expensive. Whether BA will win from this or not, we're sure Apple will be rubbing its hands together in glee and anticipation that other airlines might follow its lead. µ