British Airways passengers spent seven hours on an airplane only to end up back where they started. Flight 54 departed Johannesburg last Saturday, bound for London, a journey that typically lasts around 10-and-a-half hours. It took off more than five hours behind schedule, at 2:45 a.m. local time. While it isn’t clear how many people
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