I came rather late to the BM party but benefitted a lot from it. I got good advice from some of the regulars about where to credit my *A miles and quickly achieved a Diamond Club Gold Card. I managed to accumulate quite a lot of miles through flying and got a great redemption going to BKK and ICN experiencing F on both Thai (marvellous) and Asiana (not so good).
I also managed to get two years of Gold and one of Silver with BAEC when the take over happened.
I think I first flew on BM in 1976 from EMA to GLA. Not only was it a long time ago but I was not particularly interested in flying then so the memory is vague, but it was a propeller aircraft and we got a real English breakfast complete with fried eggs. Am I hallucinating about the fried eggs?