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Feb 2024

Mar 2024
Fri 1st LHR-SOF BA890 - GuyWMD
Fri 1st SOF-LHR BA891 - GuyWMD
Sun 3rd LHR-SOF BA890 - GuyWMD
Sun 3rd SOF-LHR BA891 - GuyWMD

2023 ARCHIVE
Dec 2023
Mon 4th SOF-LHR BA891 - fluffymitten
Thu 7th LHR-SOF BA890 - EGLK FLYER
Fri 8 SOF-LHR BA891- EGLK FLYER

Nov 2023
Thu 2nd LHR-SOF BA890 - peter h
Thu 2nd SOF-LHR BA891 - peter h
Sat 4th LHR-SOF BA890 - Deathslam
Tue 7th LHR-SOF BA890 - peter h
Tue 7th SOF-LHR BA891 - peter h, Deathslam
Thurs 9th LHR-SOF BA890 - ms101, Bluekjp
Thurs 9th SOF-LHR BA891 - Bluekjp
Tues 14th SOF-LHR BA891 - ms101
Wed 15th LHR-SOF BA890 - Gastrocnemius, peter h
Wed 15th SOF-LHR BA891 - Gastrocnemius. peter h
Fri 24th SOF-LHR BA891 - EGLK FLYER
Tues 28th LHR-SOF BA890 - klimike
Tues 28th SOF-LHR BA891 - klimike
Wed 29th LHR-SOF BA890 - choosethedrew, EGLK FLYER, fluffymitten
Wed 29th SOF-LHR BA891 - choosethedrew
Thu 30th SOF-LHR - EGLK FLYER

Oct 2023
Monday 23rd October - LHR-SOF - BA0892 - muttley_
Monday 23rd October - SOF-LHR - BA0893 - muttley_
Tuesday 24th October - LHR-SOF - BA0892 - muttley_
Tuesday 24th October - SOF-LHR - BA0893 - muttley_

2022 ARCHIVE
Dec 2022
Thu 1 - LHR-SOF BA890 - TPRun,
Thu 1 - SOF-LHR BA891- TPRun,
Sun 4 - LHR-SOF BA890 - DarkHarlequin,
Sun 4 - SOF-LHR BA891 - DarkHarlequin,
Wed 7 - LHR-SOF BA890 - DarkHarlequin, gustavmahler,
Wed 7 - SOF-LHR BA891 - DarkHarlequin, gustavmahler, AtoB,
Tue 13 - LHR-SOF BA890 - Lucanesque,
Thu 15 - SOF-LHR BA891 - Lucanesque,

Nov 2022
Sat 5 - LHR-SOF BA890 - stephenjc+1, LeeT, 86BA7, Gastrocnemius, palcsaky, FlyingBrit,
Sat 5 - SOF-LHR BA891 - LeeT, palcsaky, FlyingBrit
Sun 6 - LHR-SOF BA890 - palcsaky,
Sun 6 - SOF-LHR BA891 - stephenjc+1, 86BA7, Gastrocnemius, palcsaky* Plane went Tech in Sofia, Pax overnighting, returning on Mon 7 Nov @ 12.30pm
Tues 8 - LHR-SOF BA890 - IJG2,
Tues 8 - SOF-LHR BA891 - IJG2,
Thu 10 - LHR-SOF BA890 - TPRun, FlyingBrit, Vahan Hovhannisyan, smiles in the aisles,
Thu 10 - SOF-LHR BA891- TPRun, Vahan Hovhannisyan, Lucanesque,
Sat 12 - LHR-SOF BA890 - jfallesen, 81romeo,
Sat 12 - SOF-LHR BA891 - 81romeo FlyingBrit,
Sun 13 - LHR-SOF BA890 - Lucanesque,
Sun 13 - SOF-LHR BA891 - jfallesen,
Tues 15 - LHR-SOF BA890 - TPRun, rosswill,
Tues 15 - SOF-LHR BA891 - TPRun, rosswill, smiles in the aisles,
Thu 17 - LHR-SOF BA890 - TPRun, Percy Pig+1, 81romeo,
Thu 17 - SOF-LHR BA891- TPRun, Percy Pig+1, 81romeo, Lucanesque,
Sat 19 - LHR-SOF BA890 - Vahan Hovhannisyan, ms101, 1A or No Way,
Sat 19 - SOF-LHR BA891 - Vahan Hovhannisyan,
Sun 20 - LHR-SOF BA890 - TPRun,
Sun 20 - SOF-LHR BA891 - TPRun, ms101, 1A or No Way,
Tues 22 - LHR-SOF BA890 - TPRun,
Tues 22 - SOF-LHR BA891 - TPRun,
Wed 23 - LHR-SOF BA890 - DarkHarlequin, Waggy, travellingwigbury, rosswill, Jetstreamer, MrCheapSeats,
Wed 23 - SOF-LHR BA891 - DarkHarlequin, Waggy, rosswill, Jetstreamer,
Thu 24 - LHR-SOF BA890 - TPRun+1,
Thu 24 - SOF-LHR BA891 - travellingwigbury,
Sun 27 - SOF-LHR BA891 - TPRun+1,
Tues 29 - LHR-SOF BA890 - josh100+1,
Wed 30 - LHR-SOF BA890 - DarkHarlequin, Jetstreamer, gustavmahler, AtoB,, IJN Harekaze
Wed 30 - SOF-LHR BA891 - DarkHarlequin, Jetstreamer, josh100+1, gustavmahler, IJN Harekaze

Oct 2022
Thu 27 - LHR-SOF BA890 - onobond
Thu 27 - SOF-LHR BA891 - onobond
Sat 29 - LHR-SOF BA890 - LeeT,
Sat 29 - SOF-LHR BA891- LeeT,

SOF B2B Meet Up Thread

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Oct 24, 2022, 11:28 am

TPRun

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SOF B2B Meet Up Thread

With lots of forumites booked on to the LHR-SOF-LHR or nested flights (on one of my trips there are 16 rows of CE and I'm certain FT is to blame!) I wondered how a Wiki could be started, so those who wish to share dates can?

Best,
TPRun

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Oct 24, 2022, 1:49 pm

stephenjc

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Quote:

Originally Posted by TPRun

With lots of forumites booked on to the LHR-SOF-LHR nested flights (on one of my trips there are 16 rows of CE and I'm certain FT is to blame!) I wondered how a Wiki could be started, so those who wish to share dates can?

Best,
TPRun

Just checked my flight on the 5th November and there are 14 rows of CE😮

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Oct 24, 2022, 1:51 pm

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Originally Posted by TPRun

I’ve added a wiki, over to you.

Oct 24, 2022, 2:07 pm

TPRun

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Quote:

Originally Posted by stephenjc

Just checked my flight on the 5th November and there are 14 rows of CE😮

Haha - more to come, I imagine!

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Originally Posted by Tobias-UK

I’ve added a wiki, over to you.

Amazing, thank you! Will start adding my flights in...

Oct 24, 2022, 2:18 pm

pmcg

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Very starnge, I was just searching for SOF B2B earlier.

Was trying to see if I could out from EDI with a 5 night car and come back the same day which was possible on 30/11 but I couldn't get a an EDI back to SOF in C to tie the dates up.

Thread watching....

Oct 24, 2022, 2:24 pm

DoctorCopper

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Is there any possibility of providing a translation into English?

Doc Copper

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Oct 24, 2022, 2:25 pm

Percy Pig

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Nice idea. Done.

feel free to edit my entry once formatting has been decided on!

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Oct 24, 2022, 2:58 pm

TPRun

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Originally Posted by Percy Pig

Nice idea. Done.

feel free to edit my entry once formatting has been decided on!

Sorry, I may have overwritten you whilst 'in edit'.
I may have gone a little crazy with the dates; instead, maybe better people 'copy paste' where necessary.

Last edited by TPRun; Oct 24, 2022 at 3:21 pm

Oct 24, 2022, 11:58 pm

DarkHarlequin

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I'm moderately embarrassed that I haven't even passed the 90 post mark in order to edit the wiki - oh the shame!

My dates are 23 Nov, 30 Nov, 4 Dec and 7 Dec.

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Oct 25, 2022, 5:53 am

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marcopizzaiuolo

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Sorry to go slightly off topic, but for those of you doing multiple TP run to Sofia within the month of November, is this the best way to actually earn TP compared to a multi leg transatlantic run? Are you sandwiching in multiple BA Holidays with Car Rental for example and thus having cross-cross tickets to achieve that? Just curious. I have done SOF last year as a TP run short holiday and would happily return in the future but would not want to go so often to the same place just for TP runs

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Oct 25, 2022, 6:20 am

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TPRun

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Quote:

Originally Posted by DarkHarlequin

I'm moderately embarrassed that I haven't even passed the 90 post mark in order to edit the wiki - oh the shame!

My dates are 23 Nov, 30 Nov, 4 Dec and 7 Dec.

Added!

Quote:

Originally Posted by marcopizzaiuolo

Sorry to go slightly off topic, but for those of view doing multiple TP run to Sofia within the month of November, is this the best way to actually earn TP compared to a multi leg transatlantic run? Are you sandwiching in multiple BA Holidays with Car Rental for example and thus having cross-cross tickets to achieve that? Just curious. I have done SOF last year as a TP run short holiday and would happily return in the future but would not want to go so often to the same place just for TP runs

I would have loved to do a long distance run, having done the big Bucharest to Phoenix trip where there was a pool party at the hotel in PHX (the mid point of all flights) & it was so much fun. I chose to do this many Sofia trips because a) I live close to LHR and can get to the airport and back with ease/low cost, b) it was overall cheaper for me to book 6 x nested B2Bs + 1 long weekend in Sofia than a transatlantic run (No need for cabs, hotels, time coming in/out of airports around the world etc) - £0.96p per tier point for gold.

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Oct 25, 2022, 6:57 am

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Added!

I would have loved to do a long distance run, having done the big Bucharest to Phoenix trip where there was a pool party at the hotel in PHX (the mid point of all flights) & it was so much fun. I chose to do this many Sofia trips because a) I live close to LHR and can get to the airport and back with ease/low cost, b) it was overall cheaper for me to book 6 x nested B2Bs + 1 long weekend in Sofia than a transatlantic run (No need for cabs, hotels, time coming in/out of airports around the world etc) - £0.96p per tier point for gold.

You not doing them as a holiday (car or hotel) to get the Double Points?

Oct 25, 2022, 7:10 am

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TPRun

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You not doing them as a holiday (car or hotel) to get the Double Points?

I'm not. 1) Not smart enough to plan that much ahead 2) I offset some of the bookings by spending avios to part-pay for each trip, so it kept the price considerably low.

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Oct 25, 2022, 9:57 am

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EGLK FLYER

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My SOF trips

23/11 - 24/11
29/11- 30/11
7/12 - 8/12

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Oct 25, 2022, 2:09 pm

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Added my mini-TP run from EDI-LHR-SOF with my wife, it's the first time my wife has flown just so I can get TPs to get back to Gold before my card expires at the end of Nov.

Spending the night in Sofia was the only way, she didn't fancy a B2B, which I'm glad I'm not doing as I reckon a day/night in Sofia should be a lovely way to spend a weekend!

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