I like working in Club Europe
Feb 20, 2018, 11:36 am
#31
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Cumbria
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I’ve often seen a lot of confidential information in documents and on laptops when people work on them in airport lounges and on planes and trains and it’s not from the want of trying. We only need to refresh our minds with Flyertalks very own Printing and breakfast https://www.holidaypirates.com/fligh...ncl-bags_26071. My absolute pet hate though is the walker talkers in the lounge or people on the train trying to sound important. Most of them seem to want to go through their contact list saying what they are doing where they are off to and if they leave a number following a colleagues doing this I’ve texted that person asking them to talk a bit louder as we didn’t quite get all the details of xxx deal. That seems to shut them up pretty quickly.
Feb 20, 2018, 2:17 pm
#34
FlyerTalk Evangelist, Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Somewhere between 0 and 13,000 metres high
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Feb 21, 2018, 2:52 am
#35
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: London, ARN, HEL, ..... or MAN
Programs: BA GGL / GFL, Mucci Diamond!, HH Diamond, Radisson Premium, IHG Gold, Hertz Gold
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Yes, you're right, especially the person behind scenario. However they do have benefits -such as being able to post on FT right now while appearing to be at work in the office !
Feb 21, 2018, 3:36 am
#36
Fontaine d'honneur du Flyertalk
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Morbihan, France
Programs: Reine des Muccis de Pucci; Foreign Elitist (according to others)
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As Calcas said - how do you know? Were you on a headset with a microphone? If not, my misease with the placing of Wifi on aircraft has now metamorphasised into outright hope that it never works.
Feb 21, 2018, 3:58 am
#37
Fontaine d'honneur du Flyertalk
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Morbihan, France
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I used to do a lot of thesis work on my laptop when in my madness, and to prove that I was not just a pretty face (to some). Wifi and constant streaming in of emails and chatter would have driven me mad. The only emails I ever needed at that point were those from my Supervisor of my Research and Him Indoors to tell me what the state of play with washing machines, dishwashers, or what shopping I might do on the way home from Heathrow.
Feb 21, 2018, 4:36 am
#38
Moderator: British Airways Executive Club, Marriott Bonvoy
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Englandshire
Programs: SPG LT Plat, BA G, BD*LG, MG Blue+ ...
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I am pleased to report that on my last three Club Europe flights together, each of which was in row 1, I achieved nearly six hours of actual productive work, building pricing models and writing reports for my customer. Then in the lounge before one of the flights I achieved another two hours of actual work. That is more than a full day of productivity. I have to say that I found it a really enjoyable way of spending the flight and it made the time go by extremely quickly. 
And more than a day's worth of fees makes Club Europe look excellent value for money to boot. ^
And more than a day's worth of fees makes Club Europe look excellent value for money to boot. ^
Feb 21, 2018, 5:25 am
#39
Join Date: Sep 2013
Programs: BAEC Gold, EK Skywards (enhanced Blue !), Oman Air Sindbad Gold
Posts: 6,399
Just curious, what is your point ? What's the specific attraction / benefit of working in Row 1 of BA Club Europe, compared to, say "I like working on the bus" or "I like working on the train" ? Not the in-seat power, nor the sparklingly quick Wi-Fi, that's for sure ....
But hey ....... I’ve just come up with a long list of other things which makes CE such a great environment for working.
Here they are :
Feb 21, 2018, 9:02 am
#40
Join Date: May 2013
Location: YYZ/YTZ/YUL
Programs: BA Gold, TK Elite
Posts: 1,558
I’ve often seen a lot of confidential information in documents and on laptops when people work on them in airport lounges and on planes and trains and it’s not from the want of trying. We only need to refresh our minds with Flyertalks very own Some people have no manners
Printing and breakfast. . My absolute pet hate though is the walker talkers in the lounge or people on the train trying to sound important. Most of them seem to want to go through their contact list saying what they are doing where they are off to and if they leave a number following a colleagues doing this I’ve texted that person asking them to talk a bit louder as we didn’t quite get all the details of xxx deal. That seems to shut them up pretty quickly.
On an AA regional flight I was sitting in first row of Y and could not avoid overhearing a telephone call a person had in F. They were working for a well known HR consulting company. Discussion around hiring a new VP, with the company named. Apparently the current occupant of the role was not aware of the need for replacing him yet.
Feb 21, 2018, 9:06 am
#41
Join Date: May 2013
Posts: 6,349
Just curious, what is your point ? What's the specific attraction / benefit of working in Row 1 of BA Club Europe, compared to, say "I like working on the bus" or "I like working on the train" ? Not the in-seat power, nor the sparklingly quick Wi-Fi, that's for sure ....
But for sure it all sounds splendid.
Feb 21, 2018, 2:05 pm
#42
formerly JackDann
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Northern Ireland
Posts: 1,657
Feb 21, 2018, 7:39 pm
#43
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 1,105
Feb 21, 2018, 8:01 pm
#44
Moderator: British Airways Executive Club
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: TPA/ABZ
Programs: BA Lifetime Gold. GGL/CCR.
Posts: 13,248
Feb 21, 2018, 8:18 pm
#45
Join Date: Apr 2015
Programs: Some
Posts: 5,251
Assume this is part of the new BAEC board BA positivity initiative, but how unfortunate that this was posted just before we found out BA is probably removing the tables from CE, making it materially more difficult to work...