The BA "Thank Goodness it's Friday!" Thread
Sep 12, 2024, 8:11 pm
#4786
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: BKK
Programs: Mucci Chevalier de la Brosse a Cheveux Dore, SK GfL, BA Gold, TG *G, HH DIA, IHG Gold, Hertz PC
Posts: 4,148
Happy Friday, everybody! Another week flown by.
Bit of a dull week here, so not much excitement to report - but looking forward to flying off to FUK on Thursday for a long weekend.
This weekend will be a quiet one with some work preparations for next week
Bit of a dull week here, so not much excitement to report - but looking forward to flying off to FUK on Thursday for a long weekend.
This weekend will be a quiet one with some work preparations for next week
Sep 12, 2024, 9:58 pm
#4787
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: Mexico
Programs: BAEC Gold / SQ *A Gold / Marriott Titanium
Posts: 3,812
Just about to tick into Friday here. Not much other than work. So much going on, good problem to have.
Amongst the doom and gloom of Mexico's impending fall into being a militarized dictatorship, I did get a nice 3400 avíos boost from buying.some QR tickets with my revolut card. It's the little things, no?
Amongst the doom and gloom of Mexico's impending fall into being a militarized dictatorship, I did get a nice 3400 avíos boost from buying.some QR tickets with my revolut card. It's the little things, no?
Sep 12, 2024, 10:01 pm
#4788
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: Mexico
Programs: BAEC Gold / SQ *A Gold / Marriott Titanium
Posts: 3,812
Have fun! I have not dived that far away from the UK, the furthest was Egypt. I don’t count my snorkelling in the Caribbean, which was further away, as diving!
What I recall from that Egypt trip (my first one outside the UK) was how lovely and warm the water was. And the visibility was amazing, compared to looking at WW2 wrecks in the English Channel where the visibility was rarely more than a few metres!
PS Nice that you were able to meet WickedStepMother again.
What I recall from that Egypt trip (my first one outside the UK) was how lovely and warm the water was. And the visibility was amazing, compared to looking at WW2 wrecks in the English Channel where the visibility was rarely more than a few metres!
PS Nice that you were able to meet WickedStepMother again.
Sep 12, 2024, 10:25 pm
#4789
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Kent, UK
Programs: M&S Elite+, BAEC Silver
Posts: 3,791
Happy Friday everyone. It has been a slow week in Ethiopia. It is their New Year holiday which has meant three days of no work. It is nice to have a rest but I would rather have just got the project completed. Back to work tomorrow and hopefully out of here by the middle of next week and on to the next one.
I did at least put the Christmas FT do in the diary. It is the 19th December in the Victoria area just in case you had not seen the post.
I did at least put the Christmas FT do in the diary. It is the 19th December in the Victoria area just in case you had not seen the post.
Sep 12, 2024, 11:36 pm
#4790
Join Date: Nov 2019
Location: Newcastle, UK
Programs: BAEC GGL, IHG Platinum, FlyingBlue Gold, Hilton Diamond, Mucci des repas d'enfant
Posts: 4,190
Happy Friday one and all!
Currently enjoying the hospitality of the Premier Inn at the end of another business trip to Birmingham. What they didn’t mention was the renovations, no bar, no restaurant, and this is breakfast!
Today is the joys of the long train trip home. A weekend of domestic bliss ahead and then I have an 8 day 15 flight TP run starting Wednesday
Currently enjoying the hospitality of the Premier Inn at the end of another business trip to Birmingham. What they didn’t mention was the renovations, no bar, no restaurant, and this is breakfast!
Today is the joys of the long train trip home. A weekend of domestic bliss ahead and then I have an 8 day 15 flight TP run starting Wednesday
Sep 12, 2024, 11:44 pm
#4791
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: UK
Programs: Mucci. And BA Gold – previous awards - Gold 12, Silver 7, Bronze 4.
Posts: 5,142
Happy Friday one and all!
Currently enjoying the hospitality of the Premier Inn at the end of another business trip to Birmingham. What they didn’t mention was the renovations, no bar, no restaurant, and this is breakfast!
Today is the joys of the long train trip home. A weekend of domestic bliss ahead and then I have an 8 day 15 flight TP run starting Wednesday
Currently enjoying the hospitality of the Premier Inn at the end of another business trip to Birmingham. What they didn’t mention was the renovations, no bar, no restaurant, and this is breakfast!
Today is the joys of the long train trip home. A weekend of domestic bliss ahead and then I have an 8 day 15 flight TP run starting Wednesday
PS is there a prize for most TP runs in a year? Surely you must be top of the leaderboard!
Sep 12, 2024, 11:52 pm
#4792
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: UK
Programs: BAEC electrum
Posts: 2,771
Sep 12, 2024, 11:53 pm
#4793
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: Mexico
Programs: BAEC Gold / SQ *A Gold / Marriott Titanium
Posts: 3,812
Happy Friday one and all!
Currently enjoying the hospitality of the Premier Inn at the end of another business trip to Birmingham. What they didn’t mention was the renovations, no bar, no restaurant, and this is breakfast!
Today is the joys of the long train trip home. A weekend of domestic bliss ahead and then I have an 8 day 15 flight TP run starting Wednesday
Currently enjoying the hospitality of the Premier Inn at the end of another business trip to Birmingham. What they didn’t mention was the renovations, no bar, no restaurant, and this is breakfast!
Today is the joys of the long train trip home. A weekend of domestic bliss ahead and then I have an 8 day 15 flight TP run starting Wednesday
Sep 12, 2024, 11:54 pm
#4794
Join Date: Nov 2019
Location: Newcastle, UK
Programs: BAEC GGL, IHG Platinum, FlyingBlue Gold, Hilton Diamond, Mucci des repas d'enfant
Posts: 4,190
I’m an absolute part-time flyer compared to some on here, Markie and KARFA come immediately to mind but there are others striving for GFL and GGLFL and racking up miles and points at prodigious rates.
Sep 13, 2024, 12:37 am
#4795
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: UK
Programs: Mucci. And BA Gold – previous awards - Gold 12, Silver 7, Bronze 4.
Posts: 5,142
Sep 13, 2024, 12:44 am
#4796
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: UK
Programs: Mucci. And BA Gold – previous awards - Gold 12, Silver 7, Bronze 4.
Posts: 5,142
Happy Friday everyone. Another quiet week in the English countryside has passed by. Next couple of days is packing and pre-flighting the fast German car ready to catch the ferry to Santander on Sunday. Felt strange to have to fill out online check in and API for me and SWMBO as well as a car. The start of a little tour of the Spanish vineyards and (according to the latest forecast) we are in for ten days of pretty good weather. Fingers crossed!
Sep 13, 2024, 3:15 am
#4797
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: LON
Programs: Mucci, BAEC, Eurostar
Posts: 3,485
Happy Friday everyone! It's nice to read about other people's travel, for me the high point of the week was when the little one finally accepted sleeping the whole night in her bed, 3 nights in a row now.
We're off to OTP next week for a weekend visit, and then there are a few trips under the Channel in the pipeline.
Safe travels!
We're off to OTP next week for a weekend visit, and then there are a few trips under the Channel in the pipeline.
Safe travels!
Sep 13, 2024, 3:22 am
#4798
Join Date: Nov 2023
Programs: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Posts: 292
Any estimation how many lounges will you visit? 🤣
Sep 13, 2024, 3:36 am
#4800
Join Date: Oct 2018
Location: UK
Programs: BA Gold, *A Gold, HH Gold, IHG Diamond
Posts: 551
We found some very Dutch heritage in Malaysia and I can’t believe that our time here is getting toward the end.
We wanted to come back here (35 years after trip 1) as it was the country that really set off years of travelling. It is such an amazing mix of cultures and never a dull moment.
From a travel point of view, we’ve done trains, planes (Air Asia, MH) and bus. Air Asia was weirdly great …
Wheels up at 1422
Lunch served at 1433
Touchdown at 1442
We flew at 10,000ft and the lunch was served in a take away bag as you couldn’t eat on the plane. It was included in the bundle we bought. made no sense to even offer it on a 20min flight.
Sadly (not really!) we missed out on the SIN QF F lounge as it was closed at the time of our MH flight … indeed the BA one was too. Never mind, I am really looking forward to the SQ Private Room and hoping it knocks the proverbial socks off the CCR. That said, as much as I admire JapesUK lounge tours, being in a waiting room doesn’t excite me that much
Enjoy the weekend all.
We wanted to come back here (35 years after trip 1) as it was the country that really set off years of travelling. It is such an amazing mix of cultures and never a dull moment.
From a travel point of view, we’ve done trains, planes (Air Asia, MH) and bus. Air Asia was weirdly great …
Wheels up at 1422
Lunch served at 1433
Touchdown at 1442
We flew at 10,000ft and the lunch was served in a take away bag as you couldn’t eat on the plane. It was included in the bundle we bought. made no sense to even offer it on a 20min flight.
Sadly (not really!) we missed out on the SIN QF F lounge as it was closed at the time of our MH flight … indeed the BA one was too. Never mind, I am really looking forward to the SQ Private Room and hoping it knocks the proverbial socks off the CCR. That said, as much as I admire JapesUK lounge tours, being in a waiting room doesn’t excite me that much
Enjoy the weekend all.