Video | British Airways £20 million blunder with Virgin jumbo

Embarrassed bosses ordered an ­emergency edit of the 90-second advert – which uses state-of-the-art computer-generated images to plot the airline’s history – after a member of staff spotted the blunder just a day before its official launch.

One shot, centred around ­the company motto To Fly. To Serve, shows a row of three British Airways Boeing 747s docked at a terminal. But the nearest displays the ­serial code G-VGAL – the marking of a Virgin Atlantic aircraft based in Manchester.