Celebs on BA | 2017 edition
Sep 25, 2017, 1:10 am
#586
formerly fdemoulin
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: UK
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Contrary to what may be a popular belief, F1 drivers do not fly everywhere on private jets. And, when they do, it's for flights of shorter distances. Your typical Gulfstream does not have the range of an A380 or similar jumbo, so it's often more practical to slum it, as you put it.
Sep 25, 2017, 1:27 am
#587
Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: MAN
Programs: IHG Diamond Ambassador
Posts: 351
Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester Airport T3
Sep 25, 2017, 2:29 am
#588
Join Date: Feb 2011
Posts: 5,797
Many of the drivers and the teams will fly whatever is most convenient even if that means somewhere like Luton, which is easy for Banbury/Milton Keynes. When you are travelling as much as they do you tend not to add travel time just to stay loyal to one airline.
Sep 25, 2017, 2:31 am
#589
Join Date: Feb 2014
Posts: 75
Last Tuesday, whilst juggling my 2 year old and a buggy, we were sent from security back to check-in due to a plane change. Whilst I gathered all our stuff up and turned around, Peter Andre said "got your hands full there mate".
My wife wanted to know why I didn't get a picture of him. I replied I don't think our daughter ranks him as highly as Peppa Pig. To which my wife replied "but he's on my list".
My wife wanted to know why I didn't get a picture of him. I replied I don't think our daughter ranks him as highly as Peppa Pig. To which my wife replied "but he's on my list".
Sep 25, 2017, 8:41 am
#590
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: ORD
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Sep 26, 2017, 6:03 am
#591
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: London
Programs: BAEC Gold, Hotels.com Gold
Posts: 576
Usain Bolt in CE on today's BA952 LHR-MUC
Perhaps heading out there for Oktoberfest
Perhaps heading out there for Oktoberfest
Sep 26, 2017, 6:13 am
#592
Join Date: May 2016
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold, Accor Gold
Posts: 1,429
Sep 26, 2017, 9:10 am
#593
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: ORD
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Sep 26, 2017, 9:34 am
#594
Join Date: May 2016
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold, Accor Gold
Posts: 1,429
I did some motorbike training with him in London a couple of years back (to his credit, his pal in Jamaica has bought him a Ducati and he wanted some lessons before attempting to ride it). I remember him being so tall and his feet being so big (they had to order in some specially made motorcycle boots as no-one held that size in stock!)
Sep 26, 2017, 11:30 am
#595
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: UK (NE)
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 223
Ben Shepard in CE on this afternoon's BA1334 LHR>NCL.
Sep 26, 2017, 7:58 pm
#596
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Singapore
Programs: BA Gold. KrisFlyer Gold
Posts: 732
Pierce Brosnan in the JFK CCR this evening. Funnily enough, I saw him in the LHR CCR about 3 weeks ago. Clearly he's mistaken me for Scaramanga.
Sep 27, 2017, 3:19 pm
#597
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Hong Kong
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Posts: 922
May be a celeb to some.... Professional skier turned media person. His take on BA first.
Sep 28, 2017, 12:25 am
#598
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: United Kingdom
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Sep 28, 2017, 1:50 am
#599
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Brexile in ADB
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Sep 28, 2017, 6:57 am
#600
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: UK, but sometimes wish it was USA
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 2,388
The Countess of Wessex on the lunchtime LHR - GLA yesterday... Jag and Discovery on the tarmac to meet her. Not helped by the air bridge breaking, meaning everyone had to get off via the steps at the back of the plane...
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