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#76
Join Date: May 2013
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Staff travel - check in at transit desk allowed?
Hi, I will be traveling from Hong Kong to Brussels and then onto LHR. I'm wondering, if I've listed already, will I be able to attempt to get my boarding card at the transit desk or will I be required to exit through immigration and customs and go to the check in hall for the boarding card? I will have hand luggage only so don't need to collect bags.
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#77
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Retro liveries and ATC
The arrival of the retro livery aircraft made me wonder about how ATC refers to these aircraft if they're giving an instruction to other taxiing aircraft to follow them. Peter Sellers jokes aside, is it more complicated than "Follow the Lufthansa", particularly when the BOAC-livery aircraft for example has relatively little on it from the current (or any) BA livery?
I know that many young pilots have a certain enthusiasm for aviation and airlines, but it's not universal and there must be a lot of pilots flying today who never saw a BOAC or BEA livery in real life, and perhaps not even a Negus. Even more senior crew might not have encountered these liveries routinely, depending on where and what they were flying at the time.
I know that many young pilots have a certain enthusiasm for aviation and airlines, but it's not universal and there must be a lot of pilots flying today who never saw a BOAC or BEA livery in real life, and perhaps not even a Negus. Even more senior crew might not have encountered these liveries routinely, depending on where and what they were flying at the time.
#78
Join Date: Jul 2018
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The arrival of the retro livery aircraft made me wonder about how ATC refers to these aircraft if they're giving an instruction to other taxiing aircraft to follow them. Peter Sellers jokes aside, is it more complicated than "Follow the Lufthansa", particularly when the BOAC-livery aircraft for example has relatively little on it from the current (or any) BA livery?
I know that many young pilots have a certain enthusiasm for aviation and airlines, but it's not universal and there must be a lot of pilots flying today who never saw a BOAC or BEA livery in real life, and perhaps not even a Negus. Even more senior crew might not have encountered these liveries routinely, depending on where and what they were flying at the time.
I know that many young pilots have a certain enthusiasm for aviation and airlines, but it's not universal and there must be a lot of pilots flying today who never saw a BOAC or BEA livery in real life, and perhaps not even a Negus. Even more senior crew might not have encountered these liveries routinely, depending on where and what they were flying at the time.
I would guess they would tell in this case to follow the “BOAC 747”. (With the exception of BA probably, “follow company 747” should be plenty clear enough for any BA pilots)
In the case of the Landor, that is close enough and says BA on it so I guess that would be normal.
#80
Join Date: Nov 2010
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The arrival of the retro livery aircraft made me wonder about how ATC refers to these aircraft if they're giving an instruction to other taxiing aircraft to follow them. Peter Sellers jokes aside, is it more complicated than "Follow the Lufthansa", particularly when the BOAC-livery aircraft for example has relatively little on it from the current (or any) BA livery?
I know that many young pilots have a certain enthusiasm for aviation and airlines, but it's not universal and there must be a lot of pilots flying today who never saw a BOAC or BEA livery in real life, and perhaps not even a Negus. Even more senior crew might not have encountered these liveries routinely, depending on where and what they were flying at the time.
I know that many young pilots have a certain enthusiasm for aviation and airlines, but it's not universal and there must be a lot of pilots flying today who never saw a BOAC or BEA livery in real life, and perhaps not even a Negus. Even more senior crew might not have encountered these liveries routinely, depending on where and what they were flying at the time.
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#82
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I would expect ATC to say follow the Titan A320, but if they were busy and made a mistake the average sharp F/O of the caliber BA employ would query it or ask for clarification.
#83
Join Date: Nov 2011
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We would generally only refer to the colours of the aircraft, so a BOAC 747, or Titan 757, or Air Belgium A340, and in fact we specifically mark such differences to the norm on the flight strip.
However, when we are at a critical point, such as a conditional line up clearance, we might say ‘behind the departing (airline) in (different) colours, line up and wait blah di blah....’, so that the crew we are giving that clearance to are not confused by seeing an Air Belgium A340 while they hear a Speedbird call sign.
However, when we are at a critical point, such as a conditional line up clearance, we might say ‘behind the departing (airline) in (different) colours, line up and wait blah di blah....’, so that the crew we are giving that clearance to are not confused by seeing an Air Belgium A340 while they hear a Speedbird call sign.
#84
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Staffs
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Air sickness and crew (turbulence)
Firstly, huge apologies, I’ve done a search here and on google and can’t find the Ask the Crew thread.
I’ve read lots of posts today about the extreme wind and pax being sick, how do you crew train for this? If I’m on a lovely BA flight can I guarantee that the crew will be calm and not feeling sick? To be frank I couldn’t care less if the crew were being sick with me but it would be nice to know that they weren’t!
I’ve read lots of posts today about the extreme wind and pax being sick, how do you crew train for this? If I’m on a lovely BA flight can I guarantee that the crew will be calm and not feeling sick? To be frank I couldn’t care less if the crew were being sick with me but it would be nice to know that they weren’t!
Just a note from one of the mods to say that the thread has been merged into the Ask the Crew thread after a kind FT member (thank you, you know who you are!) provided the link.
LTN Phobia, BA forum moderator
Last edited by LTN Phobia; Mar 11, 2019 at 12:51 am Reason: Mod update post-merge
#85
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I do have a valid reason for asking this, I’m absolutely TERRIBLE when it comes to travel sickeness. I was once seasick on a boat that was gently bobbing around in Thailand whilst every one else was snorkelling
#87
Join Date: May 2014
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That’s great to know. I do know that I’m in the minority but it’s comforting to know that the crew (sample of one lol) aren’t like me!
#89
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what I find most interesting is that if I’m in Club World or Tesco First then I don’t feel turbulence at all, no idea if it has to do with the prone position or the alcohol!