jongar
Mar 19, 01, 1:29 am
LHR – FRA Business Class
A car from the office as usual takes me to Heathrow T2, I have the worst driver today, who insists on telling me about this **** women from Bloomberg who insisted on going to the office prior to heathrow and kept him waiting for ten minutes without offering him a coffee – The company pays $50 for a 7 mile journey, and I have to listen. I tell him I’m assisting the company evaluate the contractors, - he soon shuts up.
I must point out at this point we just passed Ancara and the pilot is talking to the guest opposite, his English obviously isn’t up to conversation standard, as he merely asked am I ok before going through to business – nice gesture though.
Arrive at T2 and proceed to check in, there is a queue at the Gold and business so decide to check in at the Eco, no hitches, the girl notes my first class upgrade on the FRA-DXB segment. She asks what its like, in F, I coolly say, ‘better than you can imagine, tell you what, give me your phone number and you can come with me next time’ I must point out at this time that I broke up with my girl friend this morning, but we hade really good breakup s** so the amount of testosterone in my body at the time was at a critical level, to my surprise (remember I figured me v Adonis = ME)she declines, but asks me if the company is paying for the flight, I answer they are paying for biz, and the upgrade is a treat for myself. Through to departures, pausing only for batteries and a new Hackett top, ( I go through 3 a month playing rugby, for the Americans its like American Football but with skill !!!!!) ( side note – the FA bending over the chair in front has a really good …… **** the testosterone) . Pick up the Telegraph and the Times and into the SEN lounge. Not really worth much comment, but they don’t get annoyed when you drink the entire jug of OJ. (something must of dehydrated me earlier) (**** it shes bending over again !!!!!). 2 pints of OJ later and the flight is called. Onto the plane, 1A was gone so I took 1F. Took off, and heard the ping at 10k, great to me that means just 10 hours to 20040 airmiles (2500 for LHR-FRA ((1000 x 2) + 25%) + FRA-DXB ((3008 x 2) + 25%)) x 2. Few minutes on of the FA’s comes round and asks me, ‘do I want the crab cakes of the teriyaki chicken’ He doesn’t ask anyone else on my row, I assume this is cos im a Senator. This is my first LH flight since becoming a SEN as I have mostly been flying OS and BD since Xmas (don’t tell anyone but I took a BA flight as well – urgh).
Food was good as always (we are passing over Ankara now) as was the Gin and Tonic.
We arrived at FRA on time (German efficiency) and got a bus to the terminal ( not breaking my run of no jetways at FRA in 7 months).
No time to dawdle so miss out on using the RCC in FRA (I keep meaning to take a look even though im a SEN) in the B40 area.
Board almost immediately, and wow, just 8 seats, all bigger than my armchair. There’s 3 inches either side of my butt. ( just ordered a brandy – ‘we only have Armanac ‘ this gets better) There are only 6 of us in here, the front middle row being empty ( **** good brandy – smooth as a …. Dam test…..) We are presented with the amenity packs, I remember a discussion on the boards recently about the quality, well the ones in Swiss air bus class were better but these aint bad. Made by a company called Gold Pfiel, they come on a small blue wash bag and contain a brush, tooth brush, some earplugs and socks, we also got some flip flops. I settle in and examine the seat, more storage space than my flat. The customary glass of champagne and then we are off. – at this point im going to stop writing and get some shuteye – it is 12.00 after all and I wanna try the bed configuration.
Well it’s a great bed, although the privacy screens do barely nothing. Just flying over Tehran and its amazing. Its so weird lying on you side and looking down on a city all lit up, and then looking up and seeing the stars and I think mercury). So after the drinks we took off, and the menu’s and roses were distributed. My menu was pre-prepared and has Welcome on Board Mr Garside, in lovely calligraphy style writing.
Hors d’oeuvres
Caviar (Beluga?) from the Caspian sea - amazing
Slices of Tuna with fruit chutney - great
Smoked duck – out of this world
Salad
Winter greens with Cremini Mushrooms, with a Thyme and Tomato Vinaigrette - wonderful
Entrees
Tenderloin of Beef in Pepper Crust – with red wine jus – great
Desert
Pear Chocolate Parfait
Passion fruit mousse – I had both and they were great.
Wine
The Champagne on the flight was Taittinger – quite nice
I also par took in a particully nice South African 1998 Glen Carlou – think young Merlot !!!
The entertainment was great – although I was mostly writing this –
Was it worth using the miles given its only a 6 hour flight
YES YES YES
Will post return flight at later date
Jongar – so far a very happy chappy
A car from the office as usual takes me to Heathrow T2, I have the worst driver today, who insists on telling me about this **** women from Bloomberg who insisted on going to the office prior to heathrow and kept him waiting for ten minutes without offering him a coffee – The company pays $50 for a 7 mile journey, and I have to listen. I tell him I’m assisting the company evaluate the contractors, - he soon shuts up.
I must point out at this point we just passed Ancara and the pilot is talking to the guest opposite, his English obviously isn’t up to conversation standard, as he merely asked am I ok before going through to business – nice gesture though.
Arrive at T2 and proceed to check in, there is a queue at the Gold and business so decide to check in at the Eco, no hitches, the girl notes my first class upgrade on the FRA-DXB segment. She asks what its like, in F, I coolly say, ‘better than you can imagine, tell you what, give me your phone number and you can come with me next time’ I must point out at this time that I broke up with my girl friend this morning, but we hade really good breakup s** so the amount of testosterone in my body at the time was at a critical level, to my surprise (remember I figured me v Adonis = ME)she declines, but asks me if the company is paying for the flight, I answer they are paying for biz, and the upgrade is a treat for myself. Through to departures, pausing only for batteries and a new Hackett top, ( I go through 3 a month playing rugby, for the Americans its like American Football but with skill !!!!!) ( side note – the FA bending over the chair in front has a really good …… **** the testosterone) . Pick up the Telegraph and the Times and into the SEN lounge. Not really worth much comment, but they don’t get annoyed when you drink the entire jug of OJ. (something must of dehydrated me earlier) (**** it shes bending over again !!!!!). 2 pints of OJ later and the flight is called. Onto the plane, 1A was gone so I took 1F. Took off, and heard the ping at 10k, great to me that means just 10 hours to 20040 airmiles (2500 for LHR-FRA ((1000 x 2) + 25%) + FRA-DXB ((3008 x 2) + 25%)) x 2. Few minutes on of the FA’s comes round and asks me, ‘do I want the crab cakes of the teriyaki chicken’ He doesn’t ask anyone else on my row, I assume this is cos im a Senator. This is my first LH flight since becoming a SEN as I have mostly been flying OS and BD since Xmas (don’t tell anyone but I took a BA flight as well – urgh).
Food was good as always (we are passing over Ankara now) as was the Gin and Tonic.
We arrived at FRA on time (German efficiency) and got a bus to the terminal ( not breaking my run of no jetways at FRA in 7 months).
No time to dawdle so miss out on using the RCC in FRA (I keep meaning to take a look even though im a SEN) in the B40 area.
Board almost immediately, and wow, just 8 seats, all bigger than my armchair. There’s 3 inches either side of my butt. ( just ordered a brandy – ‘we only have Armanac ‘ this gets better) There are only 6 of us in here, the front middle row being empty ( **** good brandy – smooth as a …. Dam test…..) We are presented with the amenity packs, I remember a discussion on the boards recently about the quality, well the ones in Swiss air bus class were better but these aint bad. Made by a company called Gold Pfiel, they come on a small blue wash bag and contain a brush, tooth brush, some earplugs and socks, we also got some flip flops. I settle in and examine the seat, more storage space than my flat. The customary glass of champagne and then we are off. – at this point im going to stop writing and get some shuteye – it is 12.00 after all and I wanna try the bed configuration.
Well it’s a great bed, although the privacy screens do barely nothing. Just flying over Tehran and its amazing. Its so weird lying on you side and looking down on a city all lit up, and then looking up and seeing the stars and I think mercury). So after the drinks we took off, and the menu’s and roses were distributed. My menu was pre-prepared and has Welcome on Board Mr Garside, in lovely calligraphy style writing.
Hors d’oeuvres
Caviar (Beluga?) from the Caspian sea - amazing
Slices of Tuna with fruit chutney - great
Smoked duck – out of this world
Salad
Winter greens with Cremini Mushrooms, with a Thyme and Tomato Vinaigrette - wonderful
Entrees
Tenderloin of Beef in Pepper Crust – with red wine jus – great
Desert
Pear Chocolate Parfait
Passion fruit mousse – I had both and they were great.
Wine
The Champagne on the flight was Taittinger – quite nice
I also par took in a particully nice South African 1998 Glen Carlou – think young Merlot !!!
The entertainment was great – although I was mostly writing this –
Was it worth using the miles given its only a 6 hour flight
YES YES YES
Will post return flight at later date
Jongar – so far a very happy chappy