Airline buddy dies, get bumped up to First Class

LONDON (Reuters)

British Airways crew members moved the body of the elderly woman from the economy section where she had died after take-off. The woman's daughter was also upgraded and spent the rest of the nine-hour flight from Delhi to London grieving next to her dead mother.

A passenger in first class woke up to the shock of finding himself sitting near a corpse on the a British Airways flight.

"The corpse was strapped into the seat but because of turbulence it kept slipping down on to the floor," Trinder, a businessman, was quoted as saying. "It was horrific. The body had to be wedged in place with lots of pillows."

British Airways has apologized for any distress suffered, according to the reports. The Mirror quoted BA as saying: "We apologize, but our crew were working in difficult circumstances and chose the option they thought would cause least disruption."