Forum Closure December 31st
Dec 31, 2013, 2:34 pm
#76
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: HUY
Programs: HH Diamond, IHG Plat Amb, Accor Gold, Marriott Gold, BA Gold, easyJet Flight Club, Global Entry
Posts: 564
Yep, farewell BMI forum.
All the good folks here helped me:
- achieve my first ever status with any airline - shortly before LH introduced mileage thievery
- make my first ever redemption - LH First to Dubai on the 744
- take my friend and I on a redemption trip in AC Exec First to Toronto
..and a whole host of other useful snippets whilst flying from LBA to LHR or EDI (remember the afternoon tea on the F100?!)
BMI was a beautiful thing.
TTFN
Neil
All the good folks here helped me:
- achieve my first ever status with any airline - shortly before LH introduced mileage thievery
- make my first ever redemption - LH First to Dubai on the 744
- take my friend and I on a redemption trip in AC Exec First to Toronto
..and a whole host of other useful snippets whilst flying from LBA to LHR or EDI (remember the afternoon tea on the F100?!)
BMI was a beautiful thing.
TTFN
Neil
Dec 31, 2013, 2:44 pm
#77
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Scotland
Programs: BA Silver, Hilton Diamond, BD Blue (RIP)
Posts: 1,986
Dec 31, 2013, 2:48 pm
#79
Original Poster
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: DUB - Ireland
Programs: EI-GCE, BD-G, BA-G, A3*G, TK*G, FB-G, HH-G, Hyatt-Dia
Posts: 8,527
Aw, shucks. It was always a pleasure here. 
I am overjoyed to see so many old friends dropping by today - we hit a 'recent record' of 50 users online this afternoon - it hasn't been that high in years!
And now as things wrap up, I have to say I am impressed that one gentleman's agreement was never broken - and the veil of silence remains over the pile of unused 3D TVs, toasters and blenders...
I've made several Thank You posts over the last two years, so I won't recite the Litany of the Saints, but my final post on this forum will simply finish thus:
Cannot believe it's over...
Wherever life brings you now, I'd like to wish you all safe landings and Godspeed, my friends.
I am overjoyed to see so many old friends dropping by today - we hit a 'recent record' of 50 users online this afternoon - it hasn't been that high in years!
And now as things wrap up, I have to say I am impressed that one gentleman's agreement was never broken - and the veil of silence remains over the pile of unused 3D TVs, toasters and blenders...
I've made several Thank You posts over the last two years, so I won't recite the Litany of the Saints, but my final post on this forum will simply finish thus:
High flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Ho'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through the footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew.
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
John Gillespie Magee Jr (1922 - 1941)
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Ho'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through the footless halls of air.
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew.
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
John Gillespie Magee Jr (1922 - 1941)
Cannot believe it's over...
Wherever life brings you now, I'd like to wish you all safe landings and Godspeed, my friends.
Dec 31, 2013, 2:50 pm
#80
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Chilling with penguins
Posts: 13,043
Ten years ago, when I was studying in Europe, I was regularly flying bmi. At that time, I was able to learn a lot here about BD's operations and also managed to score a bunch of awesomely-priced tickets to bum around the Continent.
So, a big thank you to you all! I hope my contributions back then were of some value, haha.
So, a big thank you to you all! I hope my contributions back then were of some value, haha.
Dec 31, 2013, 3:12 pm
#81
Community Director
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Norwich, UK
Programs: A3*G, BA Gold, BD Gold (in memoriam), IHG Diamond Ambassador
Posts: 8,480
GoldCircle, it'll never be over. As we all know, BD - and, more specifically, Jo and Keeley - was always more a family than an airline.
That spirit will always live on with those of us who actually set foot on her metal, and - as ajamieson said - whenever we see a little remaining part of the airline on board we take heart.
Besides which, we surely can't go out without a final do at the Glasshouse Stores - it's your civic duty to make it happen :-)
That spirit will always live on with those of us who actually set foot on her metal, and - as ajamieson said - whenever we see a little remaining part of the airline on board we take heart.
Besides which, we surely can't go out without a final do at the Glasshouse Stores - it's your civic duty to make it happen :-)
Dec 31, 2013, 3:18 pm
#82
Join Date: May 2006
Location: 5 miles from EMA
Programs: BD, BAEC Pleb, VS Pleb, Accor Pleb, HHonors Gold, Big White Season Pass
Posts: 5,904
Dec 31, 2013, 3:21 pm
#83
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: MEL
Programs: QF, VA, VN, BA, SQ, KC - all reds and blues.
Posts: 3,205
Dec 31, 2013, 3:34 pm
#84
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: From ORK, live LCY
Programs: BA Silver, EI Silver, HH Gold, BW Gold, ABP, Seigneur des Horaires des Mucci
Posts: 14,217
Goodbye all.
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Dec 31, 2013, 4:56 pm
#87
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: SIN 5 days out of 7
Programs: BD*G, A3*G, BA-S, Accor Gold, IHG Amb
Posts: 5,505
Farewell and thank you to all those who've been part of the experience that was bmi Diamond Club and this forum.
It would sound melodramatic to those that weren't in the know, but it truly was life altering - if not for bmi, Diamond Club and this forum, I'd not have the same perspective on this world that I do today. It really has made it a small place; both the ability to travel to what many consider far away places, as well as making the distance been airline and customer that much closer.
All the best to all your future endeavours.
It would sound melodramatic to those that weren't in the know, but it truly was life altering - if not for bmi, Diamond Club and this forum, I'd not have the same perspective on this world that I do today. It really has made it a small place; both the ability to travel to what many consider far away places, as well as making the distance been airline and customer that much closer.
All the best to all your future endeavours.
Last edited by jbfield; Dec 31, 2013 at 5:00 pm Reason: Might not make the last post - but how about the last edit?