Airline airbrushed: BA banishes rival from Bond film

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2007

LONDON (AFP) — Virgin Atlantic chairman Richard Branson has been airbrushed out of the James Bond film "Casino Royale" in edits of the movie screened on rival airline British Airways, a newspaper reported Saturday.

The Daily Telegraph said the entrepreneur, and all references to his airline, had been airbrushed out by BA, which has a history of bitter spats with its rival.

Branson appears briefly in the cinema version of the film, being frisked at a Miami airport security arch.

But when he turns to face the camera, he is cut from the BA version. A Virgin Atlantic plane has also been given the chop, and where it could not be cut out, its tailfin has been painted over.

A BA spokesman, quoted by the Telegraph, said all in-flight films were vetted and...

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