Irreverent Medusa

Last July I did a day trip to ZRH to see a friend, booked a RFS out on the 7am from LCY and back on the 19:10. The stars pretty much aligned that day

On the way out (E170), there was a single empty seat in ET: the one next to me. The flight left on time and so we landed 20 minutes ahead of schedule. "Our" stand at the E gates wasn't available yet because we were early and after a little meandering we got parked up at the D gates (skip the Heidi train, yay!)
The weather was perfect, friend had sent the office car to pick me up and I had a very enjoyable day.

I had booked CE for the way back because between the lounge access and the more substantial, if average, meal on board, it's better value that eating at ZRH. When I checked in for the return (E190), the only seat available to me was 2D. I'm not normally bothered as there's 5'3 of me, so I fit pretty much anywhere but I'd never turn 2D down on the 190, especially has I only had a small handbag to squeeze in the overhead locker. After a few drinks and some munchies on the terrace at the E gates, I board and get settled in, With just a few minutes to go, 2C is still empty and the CC tells me that the pax has just been offloaded.
Then we get told that for some unknown reason the flight is over-catered, yes you read that right and we have 2 menus to choose from...

We landed at LCY on time and because it was the ENG-CRO match there was no traffic whatsoever and the cab dropped me at home 20 minutes after landing. Bonus: England lost (I'm French )

FlyingHighlander

What does c-w-s do for a living that puts him on a plane so much?
if that's kept private I understand, but if its public on the forum, can someone remind us?
Thanks

Calchas

It's a secret

FlyingHighlander

I bet it's not

Jerseylily2

Airline industry? CWS always strikes me as kindly defencive.

Tobias-UK

Jerseylily2

I have to say not knowing background of high volume contributors does affect my reaction to their posts. For instance if a contributor was a known airline or indeed BA employee then this naturally gives posts a different gravitas and indeed 'angle'. That said I respect privacy needs.

newyorklondon

I think the question posed by FlyingHighlander in post 152 is asking primarily whether this information has already been divulged in the forum over the years (in which case, can we be reminded), or not (in which case, no worries).

Vinotraveller

I believe CWS is not employed by any airline, and travels on lots of different airlines (not just BA), so you can certainly trust his posts as being impartial, and extremely useful. The amount of FT'ers he has helped (including myself) is huge. I have yet to meet him on my travels, but do keep a lookout so I can thank him personally for his help.

Workie Ticket

I was sat in 1F while he was sat in 1C on a recent flight from NCL - LHR, but I didn't know until a few days later.

I can also thank him for his help on several occasions.

BotB

No, it hasn't been divulged on the forum.

He's a very nice chap and comes to quite a few of the DO's or flight events (launch of the A380/787 for example) so the best way to satisfy your curiosity is to simply go to one...Please respect his privacy otherwise. You can also sometimes meet him in a lounge if he notices you're on FT...

As the OP of this thread, I'll kindly bring this back on topic and ask if anyone else has felt 'very C-W-S' of late?

Safe travels.

LTN Phobia

I had 26 flights booked for October at some point. Found more direct routing on some of them and eventually cut it down to 23. I have done 22 of them. Just one more to fly.

Only 7 were long haul, so I still haven't ended up spending 120 hours in one month on aeroplanes like I did some years ago. (I think I did 2 x Europe-Australia and 1 x Australia-Asia return that month, plus some short haul). Quite a few short haul ones were Band 4 so I am feeling a bit aeroplaned-out.

Long haul lowlight:
- SQ A330 J (kind of a regional config, no solo seating, sloped bed, showing its age)

Long haul highlight:
- SQ 787 J & QF A330 J (both comfortable solo-seats, and as far as SQ goes, no 'recline and twist' that they have on other J seats except A330)
- BA 777 (I bumped into a friend on the flight, but besides that, the cabin crew was utterly lovely! She got a golden ticket from me.)

Pascoe

Not a volume of flights thing, but I have been finding the shorthaul stuff, with the routine I get in, a bit exhausting when combined with the home life (I get home from a trip and a lovely but super demanding 2yo awaits me). So I attempted to work out an itinerary for MAD next week that does NOT involve me yet again being on what is literally the first flight (any destination) out of T5 on a Monday morning (with concomitant pre 4am alarm call).

But of course, a few mail exchanges and diary 'insertions' by the team PA later, which flight am I about to book up? (insert snatch of Simon and Garfunkel music here.... "Hello darkness BA456 my old friend.......")

TTmex

I came across this while searching for what the hamburg rule was. Made me laugh.

I had three ntense trips last year.

MDZ-SCL-MIA-MEX-LHR-BCN-LHR-KRK with one night BCN and one LHR.

Also BGL-HKG-LAX-MEX-LHR-KRK-LHR-KRK-LHR-MEX 7 days.

And. MEX-MIA-MXP-FRA-KRK-FRA-MXP-MAD-MXP-MIA-MEX with 5 nights krk and 2 mad.

Got MEX-LHR-CDG-LHR-SOF-LHR-TXL-KRK-LHR-CDG-LHR-MEX.

Not enough J to write home about and some reward flights and trips on other carriers in all that. But making gold for first time.

BotB

Well, felt very BotB (both Back of the Bus as well as Best of the Best) but also very c-w-s tonight on the A350 465 return flight to LHR. Had the whole aft CW cabin to myself (although the front CW cabin was quite full) and even had my own cabin crew member (one to one safety briefing and all)...




Anyone else had a c-w-s moment or crazy week of flights lately?