New York Bound With Sir Michael Caine

It’s not every day you find yourself in the company of Sir Michael Caine as your plane makes its steep ascent out of sunny Leeds and breaks through the clouds with the Big Apple firmly in its sights.

Then again, it would be foolish to assume that one of Britain’s most famous sons had just polished off a plate of haddock and chips at the Wetherby Whaler, before heading back to the more salubrious surrounds of health conscious New York.

Sir Michael – he of The Italian Job – and, indeed, Joanna Lumley, she of Absolutely Fabulous, were both on the British Airways flight out of Leeds Bradford International Airport (LBA) to Heathrow…….but not in the flesh of course!

They have been immortalised in BA’s in-flight safety video which is not only hilarious, and a stroke of creative genius I would add, but comes as a refreshing surprise after...