Unpacked: A Proustian Rendezvous With British Airways

Mocktails and serendipitous moments from London to Portland.

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Some of the food served in the Club Suite cabin on British Airways en route to Portland. Anthony Grant/The New York Sun

Remember that great British Airways commercial from 1989 that fused the late Malcolm McLaren’s artful adaptation of the Flower Duet from the French opera LakmĂ© with arresting aerial footage of the salt flats at Moab, Utah? In case you don’t, here it is

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