Where Are They Now? (Old BMI forum)
Jul 9, 2017, 5:43 pm
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Where Are They Now? (Old BMI forum)
It has been almost 5 years since BMI got the chop (along with the BMI forum) and just wondering if anyone is in touch with the old crew??
Used to really enjoy the BMI forum and wondered if anyone is still floating about? People such as:
Oxon Flyer
More Champagne Sir?
Joanna from the Diamond Club
FlyingOnceMore
Guy Betsy?
I see Hiddy's name popping up every now and then in this forum.
Can't believe how quick 5 years has gone. Looking back the Diamond Club was amazing!!!
^
Used to really enjoy the BMI forum and wondered if anyone is still floating about? People such as:
Oxon Flyer
More Champagne Sir?
Joanna from the Diamond Club
FlyingOnceMore
Guy Betsy?
I see Hiddy's name popping up every now and then in this forum.
Can't believe how quick 5 years has gone. Looking back the Diamond Club was amazing!!!
^
Jul 9, 2017, 6:15 pm
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It has been almost 5 years since BMI got the chop (along with the BMI forum) and just wondering if anyone is in touch with the old crew??
Used to really enjoy the BMI forum and wondered if anyone is still floating about? People such as:
Oxon Flyer
More Champagne Sir?
Joanna from the Diamond Club
FlyingOnceMore
Guy Betsy?
I see Hiddy's name popping up every now and then in this forum.
Can't believe how quick 5 years has gone. Looking back the Diamond Club was amazing!!!
^
Used to really enjoy the BMI forum and wondered if anyone is still floating about? People such as:
Oxon Flyer
More Champagne Sir?
Joanna from the Diamond Club
FlyingOnceMore
Guy Betsy?
I see Hiddy's name popping up every now and then in this forum.
Can't believe how quick 5 years has gone. Looking back the Diamond Club was amazing!!!
^
(*or may be merged into the GateA14 thread)
Jul 9, 2017, 6:23 pm
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Boddingtons as well...^
Last I heard most of them had taken advantage of those one way redemptions in F to Kathmandu which included about six stopovers all over the Far East. Months later on arrival in KTM they found they couldn't afford the fare back so had to go and work in the rice terraces....probably still there.
Last I heard most of them had taken advantage of those one way redemptions in F to Kathmandu which included about six stopovers all over the Far East. Months later on arrival in KTM they found they couldn't afford the fare back so had to go and work in the rice terraces....probably still there.
Jul 9, 2017, 6:31 pm
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Boddingtons as well...^
Last I heard most of them had taken advantage of those one way redemptions in F to Kathmandu which included about six stopovers all over the Far East. Months later on arrival in KTM they found they couldn't afford the fare back so had to go and work in the rice terraces....probably still there.
Last I heard most of them had taken advantage of those one way redemptions in F to Kathmandu which included about six stopovers all over the Far East. Months later on arrival in KTM they found they couldn't afford the fare back so had to go and work in the rice terraces....probably still there.
Jul 9, 2017, 10:50 pm
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I was an occasional BMIer. I do miss the BMI board culture which was a bit more friendly and less about class status than BA. It was also full of people who never flew BMI, so I guess memories can be overly rosy.
Jul 10, 2017, 2:04 am
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BMI was the first FFP in my life, it counted for:
an amazing 9 years of star alliance gold,
my first F experience on SQ and TG (on miles).
My first introduction to Dom Perignon and Krug (and the fact I drank it at 11am)
It kinda went downhill from there.
This tread is BA related as BA assimillated the airline and the program. I don't think BAEC is bad, but it was for sure not as good as BMI Diamond Club.
Guy Betsy I see respond frequently on other forums, mainly MH and CX. OF here, Joanna was an FT member but not too active I think. She was a pure gem and pati not with difficult people like me. Any company will be lucky to have her working for them.
Globalist
an amazing 9 years of star alliance gold,
my first F experience on SQ and TG (on miles).
My first introduction to Dom Perignon and Krug (and the fact I drank it at 11am)
It kinda went downhill from there.
This tread is BA related as BA assimillated the airline and the program. I don't think BAEC is bad, but it was for sure not as good as BMI Diamond Club.
Guy Betsy I see respond frequently on other forums, mainly MH and CX. OF here, Joanna was an FT member but not too active I think. She was a pure gem and pati not with difficult people like me
. Any company will be lucky to have her working for them.Globalist
Last edited by Globalist; Jul 10, 2017 at 2:14 am
Jul 10, 2017, 2:07 am
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MCS? and Boddingtons are both alive and well, I can vouch! In fact, if you were at the Head for Points Christmas party last year, MCS? arranged and handed over one of the raffle prizes.
Jul 10, 2017, 5:17 am
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Just some statistics.
More Champagne Sir last posted in December 2016 which was their first post in 2 years. They didn't post much more than 20 times in the whole of 2014.
More Champagne Sir last posted in December 2016 which was their first post in 2 years. They didn't post much more than 20 times in the whole of 2014.
Jul 10, 2017, 5:27 am
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Boddingtons as well...^
Last I heard most of them had taken advantage of those one way redemptions in F to Kathmandu which included about six stopovers all over the Far East. Months later on arrival in KTM they found they couldn't afford the fare back so had to go and work in the rice terraces....probably still there.
Last I heard most of them had taken advantage of those one way redemptions in F to Kathmandu which included about six stopovers all over the Far East. Months later on arrival in KTM they found they couldn't afford the fare back so had to go and work in the rice terraces....probably still there.
Jul 10, 2017, 6:25 am
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In the early days after the takeover, a lot of the established BA crew would comment on just how much their BD colleagues had brought to the party, something that epitomised the airline so many of us loved. I'm lucky enough to still see the logo regularly because of my work proximity to the runway at NWI, where Regional operate flights to ABZ, and it still brings a pang of nostalgia. Like others, Diamond Club gave me my first trips in F, including the TG lounge at BKK. Sadly it was one of the few financial bright spots for the company, and the demise was entirely, and painfully, predictable ...
The forum also gave me my first DO, at the ubiquitous Glasshouse Stores, where I learnt so much - mostly about drinking, to be fair, with the resident experts present in the form of Goldcircle and Oxon Flyer.
Joanna is no longer working in the airline industry, but did open an account here to say goodbye after she left Donnington Hall. Keeley Downing did the same - "Hugsandkisses" was an inspired choice!
So, if ever anyone fancies resurrecting the final DO we never had, I'm sure some of us would turn up for old times' sake ...
The forum also gave me my first DO, at the ubiquitous Glasshouse Stores, where I learnt so much - mostly about drinking, to be fair, with the resident experts present in the form of Goldcircle and Oxon Flyer
. Joanna is no longer working in the airline industry, but did open an account here to say goodbye after she left Donnington Hall. Keeley Downing did the same - "Hugsandkisses" was an inspired choice!
So, if ever anyone fancies resurrecting the final DO we never had, I'm sure some of us would turn up for old times' sake ...
Jul 10, 2017, 6:51 am
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I miss the occasional surprise of accruing mileage on redemptions.
I'm sure things like that didn't help BD's financial state, but by the end they were a shadow of their former self. The put option that LH agreed to effectively spelled the end (with the benefit of hindsight), although it was a financially very shrewd move by Sir Michael Bishop.
The role BD played in stopping BA enjoying monopoly power has now passed to FR, EZJ and BE.
I'm sure things like that didn't help BD's financial state, but by the end they were a shadow of their former self. The put option that LH agreed to effectively spelled the end (with the benefit of hindsight), although it was a financially very shrewd move by Sir Michael Bishop.
The role BD played in stopping BA enjoying monopoly power has now passed to FR, EZJ and BE.
Jul 10, 2017, 11:01 am
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Jul 10, 2017, 12:46 pm
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I heard it was a good forum. Sadly my BMI experience was minimal ... 2 returns JER-LBA, and a solitary JER-LHR shortly before they binned that route.
I have heard of OxO, though
I have heard of OxO, though