The airline is celebrating 70 years of flights to Barbados and has partnered with the domestic brand to celebrate. Customers on British Airways flights to Barbados can now enjoy rum from the island\u2019s Mount Gay distillery while on board.<\/p>\n
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Established in 1703, Mount Gay is the oldest running rum distillery in the world and celebrated its 320th anniversary with a limited edition rum last year.<\/p>\n
Mount Gay\u2019s managing director Antoine Couvreur said: \u201cMount Gay\u2019s presence on British Airways flights is a testament to the shared values of quality, heritage, and excellence that both brands represent.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cAs visitors embark on their journey to the birthplace of rum, they can now raise a glass and toast to the occasion with Barbados\u2019 favourite rum, adding a touch of Mount Gay magic and Caribbean charm to their inflight experience.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Mount Gay\u2019s XO expression, which this year celebrates its 30th anniversary, will be served on British Airway\u2019s First and Club World flights, with Eclipse available for World Traveller customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The airline is celebrating 70 years of flights to Barbados and has partnered with the domestic brand to celebrate. Customers on British Airways flights to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":72595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2597,535,1,477,7099,7097],"tags":[322,6803,546,69,39,13213,14586,323,84,216],"class_list":["post-72594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-best-selling-brands-in-duty-free","category-duty-free-retailers","category-latest-news","category-latest-promotions-in-duty-free","category-spirits","category-wines-spirits","tag-airline","tag-barbados","tag-british-airways","tag-duty-free","tag-dutyfree","tag-mount-gay-barbados-rum","tag-mount-gay-distillery","tag-on-board-shopping","tag-rum","tag-travel-retail"],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72598,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72594\/revisions\/72598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}