Eighteen Times And He Still Flies BA

Trust our journalists to make NEWS out of anything and everything. They can't help it actually, the competition is killing.

Amidst all the bizarre news that the media keeps dunking all of us in, comes this news of Mr Amitabh Bachchan losing his baggage, rather British Airways losing his baggage. It was the eighteenth time i believe. I was amazed at the efficiency of the media. Someone had actually kept a count of how many times Mr Bachchan had lost his baggage!

As it turned out it was not the media or some scorer at the Santa Cruz airport in Mumbai keeping a track of lost celebrity baggages. Mr Bachchan had himself revealed this wonderful statistics of British Airways losing his baggage on his blog.

http://blogs.bigadda.com/ab/2008/07/16/day-84/#more-304

I wonder what would drive a man to the same airlines even after the airlines has lost his baggage seventeen times (now eighteen). Is he forgetful or what. Or maybe his travel agent has amnesia after each one of his foreign sojourn. We can safely assume that he would be returning back with BA again and probably lose his baggage again. There is some logic to this business that we and no one else has understood, yet.

After releasing the breaking news on his own blog Amitabh Bachchan says in a press conference 'As we talk, I am happy to know that just because I have lost all my baggage on British Airways, it is national news in India,'

Read the full article at
http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20080718/914/ten-even-my-lost-baggage-makes-news-in-i_1.html

What else did he expect the overworked, news hungry journos would do after he posted his blog. In fact now that i came to know about the press conference, the whole damn thing looks scripted. Maybe it was all planned. Any publicity is welcome just before a highly hyped big tour. That is why BA is silent and no one has even bothered to ask BA what happened.