Boris denied flight upgrade

Boris was flying out to China for the Olympic Games

Friday, 22, Aug 2008 01:27

Boris Johnson was denied an upgrade from his economy class seat on the flight to China, it has been revealed.

City Hall officials requested an upgrade to business class from his seat in economy plus, but British Airways officials turned them down.

"I travelled very, very comfortably in world traveller," Mr Johnson said later.

"We were attended by every possible comfort and I have no regrets.

"I neither sought nor, am I sad to say, was I offered an upgrade. In fact I was explicitly refused one."

"We are not able to discuss the travel details of individual passengers," a BA spokesman said when politics.co.uk contacted him about the incident.

Mr Johnson was flying out to attend the Beijing Olympic Games, where he said London was not "intimidated" by China's impressive display.