British Airways serves out KFC to customers on flight in unexpected menu change

Crews on Flight BA252 had to buy several buckets of fast food in Nassau and shared portions out to economy and business class cabins.

Catering carts were thought to have not chilled properly, which resulted in food being spoilt.

Staff handed out food with eight hours and 20 minutes left of a 12-hour trip.

The flight was delayed by an hour after the crew made the huge takeaway order.

One Instagram user, Ian Morgan, shared footage during the fight and said: "A 12 hour flight from Turks and Caicos and @british_airways had forgotten food for all their passengers.

"So on the scheduled stop at Bahamas they got KFC buckets and handed out ONE chicken leg per passenger."

He added that the incident was an "absolute disgrace" and claimed cabin crew said they would be "handing out vouchers".

Others shared their support up for BA, saying the intense heat had ruined the food and the airline did not want to risk getting the whole flight sick.

Another user wrote: "I think BA did the best they could, given the circumstances."

Passengers were said to have been offered refreshment vouchers in London to compensate them for the disruption to usual service standards.

A BA spokesman, clearly seeing the humorous side of the situation, said: "Our teams sprung into action and made sure our customers had something to eat.

"We apologise to customers that their full meal service was not available and we had to wing it on this occasion.

"We're sorry if we ruffled any feathers."