KARFA has joined the forum's Ambassador team
Dec 24, 2020, 2:55 pm
#48
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: London, ARN, HEL, ..... or MAN
Programs: BA GGL / GFL, Mucci Diamond!, HH Diamond, Radisson Premium, IHG Gold, Hertz Gold
Posts: 5,928
Congratulations KARFA - it’s because of people like you that the forum is such an amazing fount of knowledge and good humour. You’ve always added insight and balance in your posts so it’s great that this is now recognised!
Dec 24, 2020, 3:19 pm
#49
Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: UK
Posts: 10,177
Welcome to the Ambassador team KARFA and I was really pleased to read this news.
He's such a valuable member on here and is always extremely helpful and very knowledgeable
(and a real AV geek too!)
Having known him since joining FT and many, many encounters over the years I can say with great honesty he is a genuine and friendly person. Some of the guides he has produced and others he has been heavily involved in are now embedded in the very foundations of the BA Forum Dashboard. Keep up the fantastic work KARFA and as the old song goes.......... "We'll Meet Again"!
He's such a valuable member on here and is always extremely helpful and very knowledgeable
(and a real AV geek too!)Having known him since joining FT and many, many encounters over the years I can say with great honesty he is a genuine and friendly person. Some of the guides he has produced and others he has been heavily involved in are now embedded in the very foundations of the BA Forum Dashboard. Keep up the fantastic work KARFA and as the old song goes.......... "We'll Meet Again"!
Dec 24, 2020, 3:24 pm
#50
Join Date: Nov 2017
Programs: BA, Hilton
Posts: 2,092
Congratulations KARFA on a well deserved appointment. Your contributions to this board have been greatly appreciated by myself, and I'm sure by many, many others.
I used to think I could do a decent amount of damage to a CE bar cart on a domestic hop until I read about the exploits of a certain young man!
I used to think I could do a decent amount of damage to a CE bar cart on a domestic hop until I read about the exploits of a certain young man!
Dec 24, 2020, 3:33 pm
#52
Moderator, Iberia Airlines, Airport Lounges, and Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club
Join Date: Feb 2010
Programs: BA Lifetime Gold; Flying Blue Life Platinum; LH Sen.; Hilton Diamond; Kemal Kebabs Prized Customer
Posts: 63,924
Not all forums have them but the skill sets are different, the responsibilities too. Personally I think the way the BA forum balances this up contributes to its utlity and staying power.
Dec 24, 2020, 7:40 pm
#55
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: LON
Programs: Mucci, BAEC, Eurostar
Posts: 3,299
Dec 24, 2020, 7:43 pm
#56
Join Date: Feb 2009
Programs: Executive Club
Posts: 1,115
Congratulations KARFA and thank you for your help and advice on several occasions this year.
I have a question though. Do you and C-W-S work for BA or just fly a lot? I just wonder how both of you know so much about everything and assumed you both worked there but I'd really like to know.
I have a question though. Do you and C-W-S work for BA or just fly a lot? I just wonder how both of you know so much about everything and assumed you both worked there but I'd really like to know.
Dec 24, 2020, 10:06 pm
#57
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: YYC
Programs: BA bronze, Aeroplan peon
Posts: 4,747
Congratulations and well deserved. I had the honour of meeting KARFA at one of the simulator sessions, and I am forever grateful that he was able to organize those events and I decided to spend the money to cross the Atlantic to attend. I think it would be like not flying Concorde - one of those bucket list things that all of a sudden cannot be done any more.
I gained a very valuable skill from the simulator sessions, but not what you might think. I'm incredibly squeamish about anything medical, and needles and getting jabs or a blood test in particular. I usually manage to pass out when I need one. Now however, I can transport myself in my mind to short finals and I start running through the landing checklist, then the gear goes down, speedbrakes armed, there's the 100 feet announcment, start the flare, drift down to 10 feet, kiss the runway with the main landing gear, push control column forward and the nosewheel is just about to touch -Oh! You're finished now nurse? Well, getting that needle wasn't so bad was it?
I gained a very valuable skill from the simulator sessions, but not what you might think. I'm incredibly squeamish about anything medical, and needles and getting jabs or a blood test in particular. I usually manage to pass out when I need one. Now however, I can transport myself in my mind to short finals and I start running through the landing checklist, then the gear goes down, speedbrakes armed, there's the 100 feet announcment, start the flare, drift down to 10 feet, kiss the runway with the main landing gear, push control column forward and the nosewheel is just about to touch -Oh! You're finished now nurse? Well, getting that needle wasn't so bad was it?
Dec 25, 2020, 1:32 am
#59
Community Director
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Norwich, UK
Programs: A3*G, BA Gold, BD Gold (in memoriam), IHG Diamond Ambassador
Posts: 8,484
Congratulations KARFA and thank you for your help and advice on several occasions this year.
I have a question though. Do you and C-W-S work for BA or just fly a lot? I just wonder how both of you know so much about everything and assumed you both worked there but I'd really like to know.
I have a question though. Do you and C-W-S work for BA or just fly a lot? I just wonder how both of you know so much about everything and assumed you both worked there but I'd really like to know.
Beyond that, Internet Brands - the owner of Flyertalk - has a privacy policy which means no-one on this site should have to reveal any of their personal details.