{"id":22596,"date":"2020-11-23T20:24:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T20:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=22596"},"modified":"2020-11-23T20:24:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T20:24:39","slug":"british-airways-big-sell-off-champagne-flutes-and-trolleys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2020\/11\/23\/british-airways-big-sell-off-champagne-flutes-and-trolleys\/","title":{"rendered":"British Airways&#8217; big sell-off: Champagne flutes and trolleys"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i81\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p><b class=\"css-14iz86j-BoldText e5tfeyi0\">Can&#8217;t think about what to buy your loved one for Christmas?<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i81\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>How about a British Airways drinks trolley? A First Class cabin bread basket or slippers, perhaps? Or even a hot towel (available cold)?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i81\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>On Monday, the cash-strapped airline began selling off thousands of items of surplus stock, from champagne flutes to bedding.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i81\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>Other items include an insulated box from a Boeing 747 kitchen, yours for \u00a375, and serving trays &#8211; \u00a310 for five.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i81\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>The move comes months after BA decided to auction some of its precious artwork hanging in offices and airport lounges, including a \u00a31m-plus work by Bridget Riley.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i81\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2\">\n<p>BA&#8217;s profits have evaporated and the airline is making thousands of job cuts because of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on air travel<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can&rsquo;t think about what to buy your loved one for Christmas? How about a British Airways drinks trolley? A First Class cabin bread basket or slippers, perhaps? Or even a hot towel (available cold)? On Monday, the cash-strapped airline began selling off thousands of items of surplus stock, from champagne flutes to bedding. Other items include an insulated box from a Boeing 747 kitchen, yours for &pound;75, and serving trays &ndash; &pound;10 for five. The move comes months after BA decided to auction some of its precious artwork hanging in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22598,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22596\/revisions\/22598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}