Prince Charles is in the First Wing
Mar 13, 2018, 10:16 am
#32
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Is it just me or do I find it odd that people celebrate building's being open or still standing for 10 years.
What's to celebrate here ? The building did not catch fire ? Its doing its Job.
Seems like a total waste of money.
What's to celebrate here ? The building did not catch fire ? Its doing its Job.
Seems like a total waste of money.
Mar 13, 2018, 12:00 pm
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Mar 13, 2018, 3:53 pm
#38
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They're celebrating the delays from the first day computer problems finally clearing up.
Mar 13, 2018, 4:54 pm
#39
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Haha, was that you? I was the person patiently standing to go through the arch and had to wait ages! That Champers was definitely better than usual... I see he was steered away from the floppy toast and flaccid bacon!
Mar 13, 2018, 7:56 pm
#40
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On the HKG handover flight (which I was also on) HRH was upstairs on the 747, which is CW, whereas Chris Patten's entourage was in First. But the reason for that (as he noted at the time) was to ensure a suitably beefy member of the Met Police SO14 could sit on the staircase. This was at the time of Old First, so actually he got the better deal, as we mere FTers all realise.
Mar 14, 2018, 3:07 am
#41
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Interestingly, in light of more recent issues in CW when something new happens (787, 380, Do&Co CW catering), and given the BA crew was handpicked for the occasion, it took forever to get the meal out in the expanded CW, but I don't think any of the passengers noticed - everyone was moving around, talking and drinking, raiding the bars, flirting with the crew (especially the Met Police). But the crew certainly did notice. A crew member who was also on that flight reported they were having to sneak off to WC with bread rolls hidden in their uniform because they were working so hard without a break that some of them were at risk of fainting from a lack of food. They must have all collapsed when they got to the crew hotel. On the way back, everyone was exhausted, the crew had partied hard in HKG (ditto the passengers it should be said) and managed to slam out the meal in an hour! Which will ring a bell with today's HKG-LHR regulars....
Mar 14, 2018, 8:50 am
#42
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Mar 14, 2018, 9:17 am
#44
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A crew member who was also on that flight reported they were having to sneak off to WC with bread rolls hidden in their uniform because they were working so hard without a break that some of them were at risk of fainting from a lack of food. They must have all collapsed when they got to the crew hotel. On the way back, everyone was exhausted, the crew had partied hard in HKG (ditto the passengers it should be said) and managed to slam out the meal in an hour! Which will ring a bell with today's HKG-LHR regulars....