Feeling very "corporate-wage-slave" thread
#76
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: London
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 10
Oh wow, I can't believe how many flights and hours you all seem to be able to put together in such a short time! It's really incredible.
My personal record is a mere LHR-PVG-LHR for work, one day of relax at home, then off to OSL for one night (to get the necessary TPs to keep me Silver) and back to LHR, one day of relax at home, then finally off to LGW and VCE for my holidays in May last year.
In December I also needed to jump on a project which was being delayed and it was right about time for my holidays, so did LHR-PVG-LHR, went to BLQ they day after and returned five days later in the evening, then a night sleep and back to LHR again, did DFW-MTY and returned the week after.
All in Y of course!
A packed schedule like this would probably be too much for me even in J
Congrats to all of you who can make it!
My personal record is a mere LHR-PVG-LHR for work, one day of relax at home, then off to OSL for one night (to get the necessary TPs to keep me Silver) and back to LHR, one day of relax at home, then finally off to LGW and VCE for my holidays in May last year.
In December I also needed to jump on a project which was being delayed and it was right about time for my holidays, so did LHR-PVG-LHR, went to BLQ they day after and returned five days later in the evening, then a night sleep and back to LHR again, did DFW-MTY and returned the week after.
All in Y of course!
A packed schedule like this would probably be too much for me even in J
Congrats to all of you who can make it!
#78
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Manila, Philippines (MNL)
Programs: BAEC Gold [>20k Lifetime TPs] | Hilton Honors Lifetime Diamond [as is Mrs PtF] | Various Others
Posts: 6,156
I know the feeling! This month (April 2015) will have ended up a bit like that for me. The five Thursdays (2, 9, 16, 23, 30) will have seen me sleeping in five different countries on three different continents: Qatar, Germany, England, Bulgaria and Egypt respectively.
At least my flights (in double figures, on four different airlines) for this month will have all been in either Business or First.
At least my flights (in double figures, on four different airlines) for this month will have all been in either Business or First.
#79
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: LHR- ish
Programs: MUCCI, BA Blue
Posts: 4,295
The closest i've got to that was when the chap doing Schengen exit controls asked me how long i'd been in Germany for - umm *quick calculation* 4 hours. I had however spent the preceding 4 days just over the border in Austria.
#81
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Anywhere I need to be.
Programs: OW Emerald, *A Gold, NEXUS, GE, ABTC/APEC, South Korea SES, eIACS, PP, Hyatt Diamond
Posts: 16,046
#82
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: In the air
Programs: Hyatt Globalist, Bonvoy LT Plat, Hilton Diamond, GHA Tit, BA Gold, Turkish Elite
Posts: 8,687
I got in a bit of trouble a couple of yeaars ago landing somewhere like New Orleans and mentioning a city without flights there that I'd been to the week before.
#86
Moderator, Iberia Airlines, Airport Lounges, and Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club
Join Date: Feb 2010
Programs: BA Lifetime Gold; Flying Blue Life Platinum; LH Sen.; Hilton Diamond; Kemal Kebabs Prized Customer
Posts: 63,476
My most egregious trip was NCL to HKK (South Island NZ) and back without spending the night in NZ. I was in HKK for just a few hours for a family event and I then flew straight back to Britain. I don't do that too often, however. On the other hand, after 6 weeks of almost not flying, with just a helicopter trip with a VIP in the middle of it, it was good to be back in the air, and to find my coffee mug was still ensconced in CCR.
#88
Had another rare "feeling very corporate-wage-slave" moment tonight on the flight out to FCO tonight:
Front row on A319 empty but for me with most other CE rows near full.
Celebrated the moment with a bottle (or a few) of Monopole rather than tea this time but I'm sure he'll forgive my slight modification...
TTIWCWS
(They thought I was cws!)
Safe travels everyone ^
Front row on A319 empty but for me with most other CE rows near full.
Celebrated the moment with a bottle (or a few) of Monopole rather than tea this time but I'm sure he'll forgive my slight modification...
TTIWCWS
(They thought I was cws!)
Safe travels everyone ^
#89
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Geneva/Sydney
Programs: Mucci; BA, LT GGL; QF, platinum; Marriott LT Titanium; Hilton Diamond
Posts: 926
And Mohamed guards it to pain of death. I haven't used it recently but missed you again by two hours, c-w-s, on Thursday (accordingly to afore-mentioned Mohamed) when I left on BA11 to SIN! Now in SYD.