British Airways Faces Heat After Crew Steal Champagne And Get Naked

British Airways is may cut lucrative flights to Nairobi following scandalous behavious by its crew, reports The Daily Mail.

An internal memo in from the company suggests the behavior of the so-called "mixed fleet", made up of young recruits, may lead the airline to cancel flights to Nairobi if captains can't keep their crew in order.

A source within the airline told the Mail:

"Mixed fleet crews are basically kids of 18 and 20 years old, in their first jobs on pretty low pay, who think it’s a wonderful life staying in posh hotels.

"They pilfer champagne from the aircraft to drink in the crew hotels because buying their own drinks in a five-star hotel is too expensive.

"Then they run amok, holding wild room parties and going topless in the pool."

The parties can get even wilder than that, another source told the paper:

"In Cyprus once, crew returning to the hotel from a night out found a donkey tied up in a field. The donkey was led back to the hotel and the crew managed to get it into a lift and up to the fourth floor, before hotel security intervened."

Other cities that create problems are the U.S. cities of Las Vegas and San Diego, where the young staff resort to binge drinking in their room to get around age limits.

What is so particularly outrageous about Nairobi remains unclear.

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Biden Says Debt Super Committee Faces “Very, Very Difficult” Odds, As Talks Begin

The "Super Committee" of congressional lawmakers tasked with finding $1.5 trillion in savings from the federal deficit has begun informal conference calls and staff meetings according to one member, as Vice President Joe Biden expressed skepticism that the group will be successful.

Rep. Frank Upton (R-MI), selected selected by Speaker of the House John Boehner to serve on the committee, told WNDU in South Bend, IN, that members have spoken by conference call to discuss their plans for the committee.

"We've had a good number of discussions already. Our staffs are working together, and there's a lot of documentation that we can look at already," he said. "We really do feel like folks across the country are pulling for us to get it together. Now is our chance to focus on a long term result."

Meanwhile, while traveling to Japan, Vice President Joe Biden said lawmakers on the committee face “very, very difficult” odds, but maintained that the 12-member panel must strive to reach the required cuts by the November 23rd deadline.

They have “a shot of getting a deal that would be viewed by Wall Street, be viewed by everyone, be viewed by the international community as a significant alteration of a trajectory of long-term debt," he was quoted as saying by Bloomberg. 

If the deal is not reached by the deadline, significant cuts to both Medicare and defense spending would take effect — cuts Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta called "dangerous" to national security.

"We still may end up with the trigger being pulled,” Biden added aboard Air Force Two.

According to administration officials, President Barack Obama is preparing to push the "Super Committee" to take up job creation legislation as part of its mandate to cut the federal deficit.

The committee was created as part of the deal to raise the debt ceiling, and its recommendations must be voted on by up-or-down vote in both chambers of Congress by December 23rd.

[h/ts POLITICO, The Hill]

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