British Airways sells accessories from planes so travellers can 'recreate' cabin experience

Hot towel plate or four-rack oven, anyone?

British Airways has announced that it is selling memorabilia from retired 747 fleet. Courtesy BA

The global pandemic has largely brought many people's travel plans to a halt this year, with flights grounded and border restrictions introduced across the world.

However, those missing the jet-set experience can now recreate the magic at home (if hot towels and cabin blankets are what you miss most about flying).

British Airways has launched a new homeware portal, where the airline is selling off accessories, crockery and textiles from its aircraft.

The What A Buy concept divides the airline's products, much like its air fares, into classes. The general category consists of a set of six white mugs from the World Traveller Plus cabin, as well as a four-shelf oven rack, used to heat up in-flight meals, which is up for grabs for £50 ($67).

The Club World category is designed to replicate the business class experience, with items such as a set of six steel bread baskets (£10) and square plates (£38 for five), used on the airline's Japan routes.

The First Class category is full of the airline's premium in-flight collectables from William Edwards-branded china tableware to a herringbone-patterned day blanket (£9).

A set of six dinner plates costs £40, while a plate designed to offer hot towels around the cabin goes for £20 for a pack of five.

"This is an incredible one-off opportunity for people to bring the magic of flying with British Airways into their own homes," said Carolina Martinoli, British Airways's director of brand and customer experience, in a statement.

"We know that these special items will fly and we are delighted to be able to offer them in time for Christmas to give people the opportunity to make it memorable during a difficult year."

Crockery makes up much of the airline's retired stock. Courtesy BA

Stock is predominately taken from the surplus supply or the airline's retired jumbo jets, and some popular items, such as drinks trolleys and Club World slippers, have already sold out since the website launched on Monday, November 23.

British Airways, which has cut thousands of jobs as its profits plummeted amid the pandemic, also sold off millions of pounds worth of art earlier this year to boost its finances.

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Click through the gallery below to see highlights from British Airways' 100 years in the skies:

The final British Airways Concorde flight lifts off from John F Kennedy Airport in New York on its final voyage to London, on October 24, 2003. AFP

The Royal Air Force Aerobatic team, the Red Arrows, and a British Airways Boeing 747 at 2019 Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Britain, on July 20, 2019. EPA / RAF

Concorde pictured at Al Bateen Airport in Abu Dhabi in July 1974. Courtesy: Peter Alvis

A BOAC Boeing 707 taxing to its terminal gate as two Vickers VC10 long-range narrow-body four engined commercial jet airliners for the British Overseas Airways Corporation are refuelled at London Heathrow airport on October 22, 1968 in London. Getty Images

A British Airways Airbus A380. Courtesy British Airways

The British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) Short Sandringham passenger flying boat a demilitarised conversions of the Short Sunderland military flying boat taxing for its maiden flight from the Short Brothers facility on 28 November 1945 at Rochester, United Kingdom. Getty Images

A British Airways plane touches down in Phoenix in the US in 1996 with its Landor livery. Courtesy British Airways

British Airways Concorde Flight 1215 passes through a water display provided by the Massport Fire Rescue Department after arriving at Logan International Airport from London on October 8, 2003 in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston was one of only three North American cities, including Washington, DC and Toronto, to receive a special farewell visit from the Concorde before the supersonic fleet was taken out of service. Getty Images / AFP

A British Airways Boeing 747 passenger plane in historic BOAC livery. EPA

Aviation pioneer Sir Alan Cobham (1894 - 1973, left) with Air Vice Marshal Donald Clifford Tyndall Bennett (1910 - 1986), Chief Executive of British South American Airways, in front of a converted Lancaster bomber at Heathrow Airport, UK, 28th May 1947. J Wilds / Keystone / Hulton Archive / Getty Images

Miss Dorothy West, a hostess on a British European Airways, Viking, photographed at Northolt, Northolt. Year unknown. Getty Images

The British European Airways (BEA) Vickers Viscount medium-range four engined turboprop commercial airliner circa 1960. Fox Photos / Hulton Archive / Getty Images

The earliest production de Havilland DH-106 Comet 1 four engined pressurised passenger jet airliner registration G-ALYP of the British Overseas Airways Corporation flying above the United Kingdom with the first prototype Ministry of Supply Comet DH106 G-ALVG during trials on 4th April 1951. Central Press / Hulton Archive / Getty Images

A British Airways special liveried Boeing 747 takes to the skies alongside the Red Arrows during the 2019 Royal International Air Tattoo on July 20, 2019 at RAF Fairford, England. The Boeing 747 has been painted in the airline's predecessor British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) livery to mark British Airways' centenary this year. Getty Images for British Airways

British aircraft engineer Geoffrey de Havilland (1882 - 1965, centre) hands over the articles of a new Comet IV jet airliner to Sir Gerard d'Erlanger (right), Chairman of BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation), at London Airport, 30th September 1958. On the left is Aubrey F Burke, Managing Director of the de Havilland Aircraft Manufacturing Company. J Wilds / Keystone / Hulton Archive / Getty Images

22nd November 1977: Captain Brian Walpole smiles from the cockpit of Concorde, having flown from London to New York on its first commercial flight. Brian Alpert / Keystone / Getty Images

Spectators watch the last ever British Airways commercial Concorde flight touch down at Heathrow airport on October 24, 2003 in London. Getty Images

Hawker Siddeley HS 121 Trident 1C medium-range commercial jet airliners for British European Airways (BEA) lined up at de Havillands Hatfield Aerodrome following a Far East sales drive on October 29, 1963 in London. Getty Images

April 1946: Miss B Midgley of Northolt aerodrome stands under the nose of a BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) aircraft. She was one of ten 'air traffic girls' currently taking part in a course at Hurn airport, to learn how to deal professionally with passengers. Getty Images

A Hawker Siddeley HS 121 Trident 2E registration G-AVFF and a Trident 3B registration G-AWZJ medium-range commercial jet airliners for British European Airways (BEA) lined up at their passenger terminal gates at London Heathrow airport on May 1, 1975 in London. Getty Images

Concorde arrives at its final destination at The Museum of Flight, April 19, 2004 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Getty Images

A mass meeting that took place at London Airport during a strike by 4,000 British Overseas Airways Corporation engineers, on October 16, 1958. Getty Images

The second Anglo-French supersonic airliner, Concorde 002, at the British Aircraft Corporation's airfield at Filton, Bristol where it was construtcted. 002 is identical to Concorde 001, which was assembled in France, containing the same French and British built parts. Getty Images

A British Airways flight from London arrives in Gibraltar on September 11, 2018. Getty Images

A British Airways Airbus aircraft flies over the Queen Victoria Memorial at Buckingham Palace during the London 2012 Victory Parade for Team GB and Paralympic GB athletes on September 10, 2012 in London. Getty Images

A British Airways plane flying past the moon on day four of the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club on June 28, 2012 in London. Getty Images

A British Airways plane taxis from Heathrow's Terminal 5 on October 25, 2016 in London. Getty Images

A British Airways plane makes its way towards City Airport, passing over the Shard building on February 14, 2019 in London, England. Getty Images

British Overseas Airways Corporation de Havilland DH-106 Comet 1 four engined pressurised passenger jet airliner registration G-ALYP taking off from London Heathrow airport on the world's first commercial jetliner flight with fare-paying passengers to Johannesburg, South Africa on May 2, 1952. Getty Images

Circa 1955: Passengers crossing the runway at Berlin's Tempelhof Airport to board a British European Airways flight. Getty Images

A British Aircraft Corporation Super One-Eleven 500 short-range commercial jet airliner (BAC 1-11 ) for British European Airways (BEA) registration G-AVMH County of Cheshire flying above the United Kingdom circa June 1967. Getty Images

The Vickers-Armstrongs Vickers Viscount 700 prototype medium-range commercial turboprop airliner for British European Airways (BEA) registration G-AMAV flying somewhere above the United Kingdom on April 18, 1953. Getty Images

A converted Avro Lancaster heavy bomber the Avro 683 Lancastrian MkI passenger airliner of the BOAC - British Overseas Airways Corporation registration G-AGMO flying above the United Kingdom circa 1946. Getty Images