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Past DO's:
1. April 1/2, 2005:
Fri night: IAH Marriott Ballroom - drinks, Texas buffet, CO band, execs
Sat day: Airport baggage tour
Sat afternoon: Q&A at the Marriott in meeting room
Sat evening: IAH Marriott, penthouse meeting rooms, Mexican buffet dinner, execs spread around meeting rooms for Q&A
2. Jan 27/28, 2006:
Fri night: IAH Marriott Ballroom - drinks, buffet, execs, poster signing
Sat day: IAH baggage tours, Smith St tour, Chelsea tour, simulators
Sat night: Big hanger - Q&A setup in hanger, Texas BBQ, 752 on display, door prizes - top prize being Lifetime PC membership.
Sat late - Cigarman set up poker meet at Doubletree (formerly Hyatt)
3. Sept 28/29, 2007:
Fri night: Cook out around pool at Doubletree, execs
Sat day: Tours: Bunker, Simulator, Smith St, IAH - Chelsea, Baggage, etc.
Sat afternoon: Breakout Q&A sessions at Doubletree in 3 meeting rooms.
Sat night: Charity casino in Term E PC. Access to employee store. Dressy, private party, elaborate food, silent auction.
4. Likely early 2009 - my guess - late Jan or Feb. How can they top these past events.
After I had to cancel plans for the last one at the last moment, I'm looking forward to actually making it this time. Who knows, maybe the big plan is to hold it in Belgium in January! Wouldn't that be nice - kill two... well, DOs, with one stone
CO's 4th qtr financials come out 1/29 so I highly doubt it will be in the prior 2 weeks of that. Also, the weekend of 1/30 is probably too soon after the call to do somthing so my $$$ is on the month of February.
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Since my company moved to Houston, I've been a loyal CO flier for nearly 2 years now. Unfortunately, I had to work out-of-town on the weekend of the DO... I can't wait to finally attend one of these!
I for one would love to see Scott contact us F/As individually through flyertalk, and after verifying our identity, offering us a paid or non-paid day to officially represent CO as F/As at the DO... at least that'd be the easy way for me to attend
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Originally Posted by LukeSkywaiter
I for one would love to see Scott contact us F/As individually through flyertalk, and after verifying our identity, offering us a paid or non-paid day to officially represent CO as F/As at the DO... at least that'd be the easy way for me to attend
Last time there were FA waiters/waitresses at the event.
For those who have not attended the previous DOs and to those CO employees who're new to this forum:
1. At previous DOs, all the CO employees that help with the events - from those accompanying us on the tours to the tour guides to the FAs who serve hors d'oeuvre at the PC - volunteer their own time to come.
We didn't have that many employees on this board before, so I'm not sure if any attend as just plain FTers.
2. Everybody is invited, as long as you're registered here and have a Onepass account. You can have no post and no miles. However, because of the very limited availability, they do look at your Onepass account to determine who can go on the Simulator tour. Not just elite status, but probably based on money spent on CO recently. So, if you have no miles and no posts, don't expect to get in the simulators.
If the timing works out, I'll do my best to make it. Hopefully my girlfriend will be able to make it this time. Unfortunately, I've joined the unwashed masses so no bragging about elite status this time. (At least until post-grad school)
