Bah! Humbug! Would you rather spend New Year's Eve on a BA flight than on the ground?
Dec 31, 2014, 12:39 pm
#32
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It made me think ... perhaps a great way of celebrating New Year's Eve for the man or woman who wants to get away from general festivities would be by spending it on a BA overnight flight! Does anyone else feel the same? 
Still on my to do list before the Grim Reaper gets me!
Hawaii (been twice, but I don't think you can get bored by it and there are a few islands I haven't yet seen.)
San Diego (my idea of heaven - almost every day a constant 27 degs C and the perfect place to escape a BRitish winter when I retire!
Fiji
Vanuatu
Alaska and specifically Denali National Park (warm weather only please! The Iditarod is best viewed on a TV screen in front of a roaring fire!)
Bora Bora
New Zealand
Dec 31, 2014, 12:44 pm
#33
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The one thing about NYE I hate is the twats that keep banging off fireworks at random intervals when I am trying to get to sleep ... never mind the distress it causes The Cat.
This year I shall be particularly sensitive, as we have a taxi booked for 0745 tomorrow to start heading for HNL, and I really need my sleep if i'm getting up that early.
HUMBUG ... it's just another day nearer my coffin
This year I shall be particularly sensitive, as we have a taxi booked for 0745 tomorrow to start heading for HNL, and I really need my sleep if i'm getting up that early.
HUMBUG ... it's just another day nearer my coffin
Dec 31, 2014, 1:47 pm
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Bah! Humbug! Would you rather spend New Year's Eve on a BA flight than on the ground?
Just think of them as helping your jet lag - 7.45 is what, 9.45 HNL time? Have a decent kip on the plane from a position of tiredness
Dec 31, 2014, 1:58 pm
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I'm in Milan this year and I'm just off to the city to enjoy the celebrations. Happy New Year to all fellow Flyertalkers, I wish you all happy and safe travelling in 2015. ^
Dec 31, 2014, 2:06 pm
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As long as my flight into TPA isn't late tonight (scheduled 11:44pm 12/31) I will just make it in time for a hug with my wife before we see in the new year together probably in the short stay car park at the airport.
Dec 31, 2014, 2:16 pm
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Dec 31, 2014, 2:46 pm
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NYE is always an anticlimax. Best to let the wife chat to her mother in the kitchen while I sit on the sofa with a glass of Pinot Grigio, some cheese, and flyertalk.
Best NY was in NYC at a comedy club, but that would have been a good night at any time. I worked one NYE night shift, put the (boring endless repetetive) fireworks on TV then watched a few movies with a glass of wine.
Best NY was in NYC at a comedy club, but that would have been a good night at any time. I worked one NYE night shift, put the (boring endless repetetive) fireworks on TV then watched a few movies with a glass of wine.
Dec 31, 2014, 2:54 pm
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May as well, cant be dealing with all this merry festive nonsense, especially all the happy clappy facebookers (look at me my life is brilliant. naw, it's no). May as well start a year in a new country, i like it! Unfortunately im on my sofa with some rubbish comedy review on STV. On the other hand i have a few hoegaardens, troopers and a bottle of scharffenberger from anderson valley to cheer me up. All im missing is an ardbeg or two, although that would mean real pain when the 6am baby wake up call comes, hurrah! Happy easter!
Dec 31, 2014, 3:24 pm
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I hate New Years Eve so I would definitely take being on a plane rather than being on the ground (though i'm having a nice quiet night in with the cats and a Kir Royale so it isn't all bad). I did consider going away this year but then I realised i'd spend New Years Day in a place where nowhere was open and the racing wasn't on TV.
Dec 31, 2014, 3:57 pm
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I'm a miserable old git when it comes to NYE too, so am perfectly happy to be sat at JFK now waiting for the 9pm sleeper service back to LHR. How much sleeping will actually happen is yet to be seen if there are festivities taking place on board.
Dec 31, 2014, 5:19 pm
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Great things in TV. Washed up old guys and a guy who needs a haircut "singing" on bbc1, washed up old guys singing on bbc2, washed up old comedian on itv, and 50 funniest washed up people on channel 4.
Paloma faith seems vaugly ok now, nearly as good as an iPod!
Ron Weasley is now "singing"
Paloma faith seems vaugly ok now, nearly as good as an iPod!
Ron Weasley is now "singing"
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