The airline knows that many people are yearning for something – anything – to remind them of the excitement of flying somewhere on a plane.
So the airline is feeding that hunger by putting some of its unneeded in-flight service items on sale. Just in time for holiday shopping.
What’s up for sale?
Plates, soup bowls, butter plates, champagne flutes, blankets, bread baskets, and other meal service items as well as collectors’ items from the airline’s retired Boeing 747 aircraft.
The British Airways items for sale are listed – by cabin – on a special page of the WhataBuy site.
These pictures make all the items look very appealing. But keep in mind: food is not included.
And while those little bread baskets are cute, we’ve got our hearts set on a British Airways bar trolley that was used on a Boeing 747. The price? About $266.00.
We know that right now some of the features we mention might be temporarily unavailable due to health concerns. But we are confident they will be back.
Did we miss your favorite amenity at Dulles International Airport (IAD)? Let us know in the comments section below.
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5 Thing We Love About Dulles International Airport
1. The IAD Main Terminal Building
Opened in 1962 as the country’s first ‘jet-age’ airport, Dulles International Airport is perhaps best-known for architect Eero Saarinen’s iconic curved-roof design for the main terminal.
2. The mobile lounges at IAD
These days, many passengers at IAD move between concourses on the underground AeroTrain, a 3.78-mile underground people mover system.
But IAD’s historic mobile lounges are in still in use.
IAD’s mobile lounges transport international arriving passengers from their arrival gate to the International Arrivals Building. The mobile lounges shuttle passengers between the main terminal and the concourses, and between concourse. And when airplanes are parked on a remote hardstand, the mobile lounges ferry passengers to the main terminal.
3. The historic FAA air traffic control tower at IAD
The original Airport Traffic Control Tower (ATCT) at Dulles International Airport dates to the airport’s opening in 1962 and remains on-site because of its historical significance to the airport’s design.
A new tower was dedicated in 2007 and is about one mile from the original tower.
4. Kids play area at IAD
What can we say? Sometimes kids have all the fun at the airport.
5. Only airport with Chipotle breakfast
Want a breakfast burrito made by Chipotle? The only place you will find that on the Chipotle menu is at Dulles International Airport.
Bonus: Pat Nixon christens 1st 747
Back on January 15, 1970 then-First Lady Pat Nixon christened the first commercial Boeing 747 during a ceremony at Dulles International Airport.
United Airlines officially said farewell to its Boeing 747 airplanes on Tuesday with a special charter flight from San Francisco to Honolulu.
I got to ride along and will be putting together a formal report for the Runway Girl Network, but in the meantime, here are some snaps from the gate-side party, the flight and the arrival in Honolulu.
Those out-of-time outfits you’ll see? Everyone was encouraged to dress in outfits from the 1970s, to evoke the time when the iconic humped plane was introduced.
Tom Stuker, who has flown 18 million miles on United wih United CEO Oscar Munoz, who scanned passenger tickets for the flight.
Mai Tai cocktails for everyone on the flight.
And for dessert – “Volcano” ice-cream sundaes, with dry-ice.
On arrival in Honolulu, the plane received a 120-foot-long lei – made out of trash bags by United employees.
United Airlines is going to retire its Boeing 747 fleet on November 7 and to mark the occasion the airline is giving out 747-themed Polaris amenity kits starting Monday, October 23, through January 2018.
Silver kits go to first class customers, while blue kits will be handed out to business class fliers. In addition to the usual amenity kit items, each kit contains a pack of five 747 trading cards, so you can swap with your friends.
Passengers on United’s premium transcontinetnal routes (EWR-SFO, EWR-LAX, BOS-SFO) will receive (smaller, but just as charming) commemorative kits as well.
