Many thanks to you all for your kind words. ^

The redundancy has worked out extremely well for my travel plans. I had already booked (before redundancy) a two night UA Y+ LAS trip departing on Saturday and an F out / J return BA trip to NYC 24-29 Dec. To cheer myself up (not that is was strictly required) I have just booked an SQ F trip to DPS using some UA miles for the flights and some of the SPG points that I won at the London Do for the hotels.

So December looks good: http://www.ba97.com/ba97/calendar/re...?handle=tex277

And finally, as I doubt that I will find another job with the same shift pattern, it looks like I will be unable to make those 19 multi-segment BA domestic daytrips to achieve AA Executive Platinum. The BACON sell-off would have scuppered that anyway I believe.

Every cloud has a silver lining