Celebs on BA | 2018 edition
Nov 18, 2018, 4:01 am
#721
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Wayne & Colleen Rooney (and their incredibly well behaved children) were in the MAN Lounge yesterday and on MAN-LHR (heading to IAD). I somehow broke the biometric system at domestic flight connections and delayed them and two aircraft full of passengers. It took 40 minutes to get the system back up again.
Nov 18, 2018, 9:17 pm
#722
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Wayne & Colleen Rooney (and their incredibly well behaved children) were in the MAN Lounge yesterday and on MAN-LHR (heading to IAD). I somehow broke the biometric system at domestic flight connections and delayed them and two aircraft full of passengers. It took 40 minutes to get the system back up again.
In that case, should not this have been posted in the DYKWIA thread instead
Nov 19, 2018, 12:28 am
#723
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After that I suggested that once the system was back up they should process the people who were on tight connections ahead of me (just in case it was an issue with my BP that was causing the problem) so they (including the Rooneys) could make their connections. It was a good job I did because after those 10 passengers were processed they tried my BP again and the system went down again!
Nov 19, 2018, 2:31 am
#724
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Well, no, there was no sign of a DYKWIA from me, my son or the Rooneys. We were first off and first to arrive at flight connections, my BP was scanned and the system froze. The agent opened the other desk and the same thing happened. They eventually managed to reboot but as soon as my BP was scanned the system froze again.
After that I suggested that once the system was back up they should process the people who were on tight connections ahead of me (just in case it was an issue with my BP that was causing the problem) so they (including the Rooneys) could make their connections. It was a good job I did because after those 10 passengers were processed they tried my BP again and the system went down again!
denotes that LCS was being facetious
Nov 19, 2018, 2:05 pm
#725
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Paul McGann is in the BA Galleries Lounge at JFK Terminal 7 right now, keeping a low profile.
Nov 19, 2018, 2:17 pm
#727
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Wayne & Colleen Rooney (and their incredibly well behaved children) were in the MAN Lounge yesterday and on MAN-LHR (heading to IAD). I somehow broke the biometric system at domestic flight connections and delayed them and two aircraft full of passengers. It took 40 minutes to get the system back up again.
Nov 19, 2018, 2:36 pm
#728
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There was another celebrity in 2A, a model heading to LAX. Did you notice her, know her name?
Nov 19, 2018, 3:23 pm
#729
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Funnily enough I bumped into him on the Victoria line a couple of weeks ago on his way to Brasserie Zedel with the female singer from his quartet. My very minor claim to fame is having dinner with him and a dozen others at Casa Brindisa early on in his restaurant critic days when Jose Pizarro ran it, and then a few years later at Brasserie Chavot where he and his dining companion sat adjacent to to our table. Charming fella.
Nov 19, 2018, 3:31 pm
#730
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Nov 19, 2018, 4:08 pm
#731
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Nov 20, 2018, 9:51 am
#734
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I may have been guilty of this when I caught sight of Liam Fox mixing himself a Bloody Mary at the bar in the SIN galleries lounge a couple of months ago!
Nov 20, 2018, 5:56 pm
#735
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