British Airways has been accused of giving unfair priority to high flyers after being spotted snubbing a customer on Twitter while prioritising Davina McCall.

Customer Graham Drew vented his frustration on Twitter after his flight was cancelled and he was stuck on hold to British Airways for half an hour. When Mr Drew tweeted the airline to complain about his lengthy wait time, BA’s Twitter team replied saying it was “not possible to arrange a call back”.

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But when TV superstar McCall tweeted her frustration over getting stuck in the same queue to talk to a member of the BA team, someone offered to call her right away.

One Twitter user put the two conversations side by side and things got very awkward.

That’s just plane rude.

The British Airways press office told us: “Our customer service teams offer support and advice to hundreds of customers every day, often calling or emailing customers direct to resolve their issue as quickly as possible.”

Moral of the story: next time your baggage goes missing or you’re stuck in a ridiculously long queue at airport security, don a long brown wig and tell a member of staff you’re going to show them a montage of their “best bits”.