BA Flying Start Celebration Champagne Reception
Nov 11, 2016, 6:04 am
#17
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: London, UK
Programs: BA GGL, HHonors Diamond
Posts: 910
A mini 'trip report' 
from the event last night.
It was a very good event. Many thanks to BA for the invitation.
The event was held at the BT Tower which I was lucky to attend once before for a Children In Need event and certainly worth a visit if you ever get an invite to something. BA cabin and flight crew were welcoming guests at the ground floor reception and guiding to the lifts to the revolving area at the top.
Champagne (Castelnau) was flowing well and there was a number of Flying Start ambassadors in attendance such as Gary Linekar, Clare Balding and Darcey Bussell, with close up magic entertainment from Richard Jones winner of BGT. Tony Hadley sang a number of well known songs.
Troy Warfield greeted guests and was quite amiable. Generally the event was definitely about celebrating the fundraising achievement and thanking the staff. I met a couple of (very) frequent flyers and also chatted to people from the company that administers the Executive Club and the other IAG schemes.
It was especially pleasing to talk to people from Flying Start within BA and see the passion for what it achieves through Comic Relief, and to talk about my own experience from townships outside Cape Town and another event I attended recently for a charity for Nepal. It was heartening to hear about the immediate attention Flying Start gave after the terrible events in Nepal last year.
All the BA staff were attending on their own time and it was great to hear (and read on the Flying Start site) about the positive engagement Flying Start has from all staff areas in BA for a really great cause.
Again thanks to BA for a very nice evening to celebrate the great achievement so far.
from the event last night.It was a very good event. Many thanks to BA for the invitation.
The event was held at the BT Tower which I was lucky to attend once before for a Children In Need event and certainly worth a visit if you ever get an invite to something. BA cabin and flight crew were welcoming guests at the ground floor reception and guiding to the lifts to the revolving area at the top.
Champagne (Castelnau) was flowing well and there was a number of Flying Start ambassadors in attendance such as Gary Linekar, Clare Balding and Darcey Bussell, with close up magic entertainment from Richard Jones winner of BGT. Tony Hadley sang a number of well known songs.
Troy Warfield greeted guests and was quite amiable. Generally the event was definitely about celebrating the fundraising achievement and thanking the staff. I met a couple of (very) frequent flyers and also chatted to people from the company that administers the Executive Club and the other IAG schemes.
It was especially pleasing to talk to people from Flying Start within BA and see the passion for what it achieves through Comic Relief, and to talk about my own experience from townships outside Cape Town and another event I attended recently for a charity for Nepal. It was heartening to hear about the immediate attention Flying Start gave after the terrible events in Nepal last year.
All the BA staff were attending on their own time and it was great to hear (and read on the Flying Start site) about the positive engagement Flying Start has from all staff areas in BA for a really great cause.
Again thanks to BA for a very nice evening to celebrate the great achievement so far.
Nov 11, 2016, 10:38 am
#18
Join Date: May 2005
Location: London, UK
Programs: BA GGL/CCR/Lifetime Gold, Hyatt Lifetime Globalist, Marriott Titanium, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 562
A mini 'trip report' from the event last night.
It was a very good event. Many thanks to BA for the invitation.
The event was held at the BT Tower which I was lucky to attend once before for a Children In Need event and certainly worth a visit if you ever get an invite to something. BA cabin and flight crew were welcoming guests at the ground floor reception and guiding to the lifts to the revolving area at the top.
Champagne (Castelnau) was flowing well and there was a number of Flying Start ambassadors in attendance such as Gary Linekar, Clare Balding and Darcey Bussell, with close up magic entertainment from Richard Jones winner of BGT. Tony Hadley sang a number of well known songs.
Troy Warfield greeted guests and was quite amiable. Generally the event was definitely about celebrating the fundraising achievement and thanking the staff. I met a couple of (very) frequent flyers and also chatted to people from the company that administers the Executive Club and the other IAG schemes.
It was especially pleasing to talk to people from Flying Start within BA and see the passion for what it achieves through Comic Relief, and to talk about my own experience from townships outside Cape Town and another event I attended recently for a charity for Nepal. It was heartening to hear about the immediate attention Flying Start gave after the terrible events in Nepal last year.
All the BA staff were attending on their own time and it was great to hear (and read on the Flying Start site) about the positive engagement Flying Start has from all staff areas in BA for a really great cause.
Again thanks to BA for a very nice evening to celebrate the great achievement so far.
from the event last night.It was a very good event. Many thanks to BA for the invitation.
The event was held at the BT Tower which I was lucky to attend once before for a Children In Need event and certainly worth a visit if you ever get an invite to something. BA cabin and flight crew were welcoming guests at the ground floor reception and guiding to the lifts to the revolving area at the top.
Champagne (Castelnau) was flowing well and there was a number of Flying Start ambassadors in attendance such as Gary Linekar, Clare Balding and Darcey Bussell, with close up magic entertainment from Richard Jones winner of BGT. Tony Hadley sang a number of well known songs.
Troy Warfield greeted guests and was quite amiable. Generally the event was definitely about celebrating the fundraising achievement and thanking the staff. I met a couple of (very) frequent flyers and also chatted to people from the company that administers the Executive Club and the other IAG schemes.
It was especially pleasing to talk to people from Flying Start within BA and see the passion for what it achieves through Comic Relief, and to talk about my own experience from townships outside Cape Town and another event I attended recently for a charity for Nepal. It was heartening to hear about the immediate attention Flying Start gave after the terrible events in Nepal last year.
All the BA staff were attending on their own time and it was great to hear (and read on the Flying Start site) about the positive engagement Flying Start has from all staff areas in BA for a really great cause.
Again thanks to BA for a very nice evening to celebrate the great achievement so far.
Spoke to Troy - actually very sensible, and was clear that improvements needed to be made in the premium experience.