Dec 31, 2019, 5:51 am
Last edit by: tcook052
This new annual thread has been carved out of the previous thread in an effort to reduce the number of megathreads on the AC forum. For those interested previous versions are the original 2004 - 2014 thread , 2015 edition, 2016 edition , 2017 edition, 2018 edition and 2019 edition.
The original thread started by accident but quickly became a popular place to come and discuss off topic things such as hockey, new movies, or almost anything that wouldn't fit into existing AC forum threads. Air Canada or Aeroplan topics such as flight feedback, in-flight services issues, status or mileage earning/redemption are all topics that should go into existing AC forum threads so others can benefit from this information. Topics about hotels or airlines and/or their loyalty programs, destinations, in-flight travel tech. or anything best discussed elsewhere on FT may be relocated to that forum as this thread isn't meant to import travel topics to this forum that are better discussed on other forums. FT is an amazingly diverse and large community so members are encouraged to seek out all of its resources.
While the conversation is more relaxed as it would be in a lounge that doesn't mean however that the FT rules don't apply here as they definitely do so please refrain from controversial topics such as politics or religion, avoid profanities and treat other lounge patrons with the same respect you expect.
tcook052
Air Canada forum moderator
The original thread started by accident but quickly became a popular place to come and discuss off topic things such as hockey, new movies, or almost anything that wouldn't fit into existing AC forum threads. Air Canada or Aeroplan topics such as flight feedback, in-flight services issues, status or mileage earning/redemption are all topics that should go into existing AC forum threads so others can benefit from this information. Topics about hotels or airlines and/or their loyalty programs, destinations, in-flight travel tech. or anything best discussed elsewhere on FT may be relocated to that forum as this thread isn't meant to import travel topics to this forum that are better discussed on other forums. FT is an amazingly diverse and large community so members are encouraged to seek out all of its resources.
While the conversation is more relaxed as it would be in a lounge that doesn't mean however that the FT rules don't apply here as they definitely do so please refrain from controversial topics such as politics or religion, avoid profanities and treat other lounge patrons with the same respect you expect.
tcook052
Air Canada forum moderator
The Forum Lounge Thread (2020)
Feb 2, 2020, 1:43 pm
#226
Join Date: Jan 2020
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Posts: 182
While that was not the result I would have wanted, I still wanted to see that game. For a good chunk of years the Battle of Alberta was pretty dull and not very intense, but lately it looks like it's picking up!
Feb 5, 2020, 3:04 pm
#227
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LAD getting Betts and Price in 3-way!
Maybe this is the year. They probably could've won in 2017 if it weren't for all those trash cans.
#sportshardball
Maybe this is the year. They probably could've won in 2017 if it weren't for all those trash cans.
#sportshardball
Feb 5, 2020, 3:07 pm
#228
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: YEG
Programs: HH Silver
Posts: 56,449
LAD getting Betts and Price in 3-way!
Maybe this is the year. They probably could've won in 2017 if it weren't for all those trash cans.
#sportshardball
Maybe this is the year. They probably could've won in 2017 if it weren't for all those trash cans.
#sportshardball
Feb 5, 2020, 3:10 pm
#229
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Don't get me wrong - I don't have any skin in the game per se... but I do believe they would've won in 2017 if it weren't for some other possible (cheating) factors...
Feb 5, 2020, 4:56 pm
#230
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: YVR - MILLS Waypoint (It's the third house on the left)
Programs: AC*SE100K, wood level status in various other programs
Posts: 6,231
Sitting in the Queen Victoria Building in SYD, admiring the sights, sipping mimosas while some dude a floor below me is confidently cruising his way through The Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, without sheet music of course. That done, I guess it's time for a polonaise.
Life is grand.
Except for my next flight on VA. Nothing some more bubbles can't solve.
Life is grand.
Except for my next flight on VA. Nothing some more bubbles can't solve.
Feb 5, 2020, 5:43 pm
#231
Moderator, Air Canada; FlyerTalk Evangelist
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Feb 5, 2020, 7:54 pm
#232
Join Date: May 2013
Location: YYT/YYC/TPE
Programs: AC SE, UA, National Exec Elite, Nexus, GE
Posts: 1,810
What a game! Raps won by one!
Feb 5, 2020, 9:40 pm
#233
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: YYZ
Programs: AC SE MM, Bonvoy Plat, Hilton G,Nexus, Amex MR Plat,IHG Plat
Posts: 4,426
Feb 6, 2020, 12:32 pm
#234
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: YHZ/YQM
Programs: Aeroplan
Posts: 1,618
Last night my 17 yo daughter came home with a trumpet that she borrowed. Now she's trying to teach herself to play it.
Oh happy day.
At least she already knows the fingering from her time on the baritone horn.
Oh happy day.
At least she already knows the fingering from her time on the baritone horn.
Feb 6, 2020, 12:46 pm
#235
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: YYZ
Programs: TK *G
Posts: 3,099
Sitting in the Queen Victoria Building in SYD, admiring the sights, sipping mimosas while some dude a floor below me is confidently cruising his way through The Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, without sheet music of course. That done, I guess it's time for a polonaise.
Life is grand.
Except for my next flight on VA. Nothing some more bubbles can't solve.
Life is grand.
Except for my next flight on VA. Nothing some more bubbles can't solve.
I would be more than happy if I can play Hungarian Rhapsody No 2, or anything from Franz Liszt.
Feb 6, 2020, 1:58 pm
#236
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Ideally YOW, but probably not
Programs: AC SE*MM
Posts: 1,826
I had a long day in SYD yesterday with customers, and then out for drinks with partners in the CBD at the end of the day, then out for a late dinner with a co-worker.
As the people the next table over were finishing dinner one guy leans over and asks if I am Canadian. I assume it is because he's heard my accent (and he has a Canadian accent too) but no it is because he's noticed the SE tag on my laptop bag. Turns out he's part of the team working on the new loyalty program, based in Toronto. Of all the gin joints in the world
We chatted for a while and he said that he really hoped I would be impressed with the new program, so I guess we'll see! Considering our corporate HQ is right next to AC at YUL I usually have these finds of encounters around YUL ... to be having that conversation on a Thursday night in Sydney seemed like a hilarious coincidence to me
As the people the next table over were finishing dinner one guy leans over and asks if I am Canadian. I assume it is because he's heard my accent (and he has a Canadian accent too) but no it is because he's noticed the SE tag on my laptop bag. Turns out he's part of the team working on the new loyalty program, based in Toronto. Of all the gin joints in the world
We chatted for a while and he said that he really hoped I would be impressed with the new program, so I guess we'll see! Considering our corporate HQ is right next to AC at YUL I usually have these finds of encounters around YUL ... to be having that conversation on a Thursday night in Sydney seemed like a hilarious coincidence to me
Feb 6, 2020, 2:14 pm
#237
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: Halifax
Programs: AC SE100K, Marriott Lifetime Platinum Elite. NEXUS
Posts: 4,569
Feb 6, 2020, 5:20 pm
#238
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: YYZ
Programs: AC SEMM / HH Diamond
Posts: 3,165
I had a long day in SYD yesterday with customers, and then out for drinks with partners in the CBD at the end of the day, then out for a late dinner with a co-worker.
As the people the next table over were finishing dinner one guy leans over and asks if I am Canadian. I assume it is because he's heard my accent (and he has a Canadian accent too) but no it is because he's noticed the SE tag on my laptop bag. Turns out he's part of the team working on the new loyalty program, based in Toronto. Of all the gin joints in the world We chatted for a while and he said that he really hoped I would be impressed with the new program, so I guess we'll see! Considering our corporate HQ is right next to AC at YUL I usually have these finds of encounters around YUL ... to be having that conversation on a Thursday night in Sydney seemed like a hilarious coincidence to me
As the people the next table over were finishing dinner one guy leans over and asks if I am Canadian. I assume it is because he's heard my accent (and he has a Canadian accent too) but no it is because he's noticed the SE tag on my laptop bag. Turns out he's part of the team working on the new loyalty program, based in Toronto. Of all the gin joints in the world
We chatted for a while and he said that he really hoped I would be impressed with the new program, so I guess we'll see! Considering our corporate HQ is right next to AC at YUL I usually have these finds of encounters around YUL ... to be having that conversation on a Thursday night in Sydney seemed like a hilarious coincidence to me 
Feb 6, 2020, 5:24 pm
#239
Moderator, Air Canada; FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: YYC
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Posts: 16,774
I had a long day in SYD yesterday with customers, and then out for drinks with partners in the CBD at the end of the day, then out for a late dinner with a co-worker.
As the people the next table over were finishing dinner one guy leans over and asks if I am Canadian. I assume it is because he's heard my accent (and he has a Canadian accent too) but no it is because he's noticed the SE tag on my laptop bag. Turns out he's part of the team working on the new loyalty program, based in Toronto. Of all the gin joints in the world
As the people the next table over were finishing dinner one guy leans over and asks if I am Canadian. I assume it is because he's heard my accent (and he has a Canadian accent too) but no it is because he's noticed the SE tag on my laptop bag. Turns out he's part of the team working on the new loyalty program, based in Toronto. Of all the gin joints in the world
Feb 6, 2020, 9:19 pm
#240
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Ideally YOW, but probably not
Programs: AC SE*MM
Posts: 1,826
Not where I thought the story was going. I thought you were going to tell us it was Bohemian1