Photographs from your BA travels
Aug 18, 2023, 8:07 am
#1681
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: JAX
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Exeter, July 2023
Flew BA IAD-LHR, took GWR to EXD and back the same way. Stayed at the Holiday Inn Express Exeter City Centre.
Tudor House, Tudor Street, opposite hotel.
View of the River Exe from hotel room. The Medieval Exe Bridge is behind the trees in the middle.
View of Exeter from Haldon Forest Park. Can see the John Lewis car park, and the towers of Exeter Cathedral if you know where to look...
Sidmouth
Tudor House, Tudor Street, opposite hotel.
View of the River Exe from hotel room. The Medieval Exe Bridge is behind the trees in the middle.
View of Exeter from Haldon Forest Park. Can see the John Lewis car park, and the towers of Exeter Cathedral if you know where to look...
Sidmouth
Aug 18, 2023, 2:30 pm
#1685
Join Date: Jan 2020
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Aug 18, 2023, 3:48 pm
#1686
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: US/UK - and elsewhere
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Ah, the 'mobile lounges', as they like to call them (i.e. buses on stilts). I believe when they were introduced they were used at other (US) airports, but IAD is - as far as I know - the only place they're used now. Essentially you get the train (or walk) to the terminal for departures, but for international arrivals you get chaperoned (briefly along the terminal margins) to board these that whisk (not!) you to the immigration/customs hall. Many years ago, I seem to remember using them to directly disembark from the aircraft. I think some are currently being refurbished/upgraded... .
Sep 1, 2023, 10:03 pm
#1687
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: Oxford
Programs: BAEC GGL
Posts: 82
Ah, the 'mobile lounges', as they like to call them (i.e. buses on stilts). I believe when they were introduced they were used at other (US) airports, but IAD is - as far as I know - the only place they're used now. Essentially you get the train (or walk) to the terminal for departures, but for international arrivals you get chaperoned (briefly along the terminal margins) to board these that whisk (not!) you to the immigration/customs hall. Many years ago, I seem to remember using them to directly disembark from the aircraft. I think some are currently being refurbished/upgraded... .
Sep 1, 2023, 10:14 pm
#1688
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 3,613
I believe these came from YMX which was designed, as many things in Quebec following ideas coming from France which never really caught on anywhere else. The idea was that planes were going to get bigger and bigger and having gates for each plane was going to be less and less practical. So instead the idea was to have a small number of gates close together take the passengers to the planes elsewhere. It was one of many terrible ideas at YMX and far from the worst.
Sep 1, 2023, 10:14 pm
#1689
Join Date: Jul 2018
Location: Oxford
Programs: BAEC GGL
Posts: 82
Wasn't sure if this should go in this thread or Where in the World... I don't know if this is very easy or whether mountain views like this are quite generic... It's my first close up like this so hope it is ok to share... Answer - if needed - in 24 hours.
Edit : this was of course Mt Rainier in Washington State. We seemed to use it like a slingshot as we flew from Seattle to Salt Lake City. Was transfixed by its approach...
Edit : this was of course Mt Rainier in Washington State. We seemed to use it like a slingshot as we flew from Seattle to Salt Lake City. Was transfixed by its approach...
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Sep 9, 2023, 7:04 am
#1691
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: US/UK - and elsewhere
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When flying to Scandinavia - have a pre-Scandi experience at the ScandiKitchen in London (if have a layover in LHR of course!). Certainly beats the BA breakfast in economy!
Just next to the BBC is All Souls Langham Place - always thought it was a small spire on top of a colonnade, but no, the colonnade has be plonked on top of the spire.
Aunty Beeb herself - no celebs to be seen though.
And just off Cavendish Sq - The Medical Society of London... .
Managed this with a planned 6.5 hr layover, which turned into 5 hours due to not being able to exit the plan (duh!), 35 mins 'Liz Line to Bond St, about an hour+half there and 35 mins back. Easy... .
Just next to the BBC is All Souls Langham Place - always thought it was a small spire on top of a colonnade, but no, the colonnade has be plonked on top of the spire.
Aunty Beeb herself - no celebs to be seen though.
And just off Cavendish Sq - The Medical Society of London... .
Managed this with a planned 6.5 hr layover, which turned into 5 hours due to not being able to exit the plan (duh!), 35 mins 'Liz Line to Bond St, about an hour+half there and 35 mins back. Easy... .
Sep 13, 2023, 8:23 pm
#1694
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: London
Programs: KLM, BA Silver, Etihad
Posts: 920
Queensboro Bridge
9/11 anniversary evening
9/11 anniversary evening
High Line
You travel several thousand miles and you find this in the toilet of your hotel. A team less than 3 miles from your house..
The New Yorker hotel
New Jersey
