Love in the lounge?
May 26, 23, 11:40 pm
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Love in the lounge?
Mods feel free to remove, but I thought I’d introduce a little levity to the long weekend…
Does anyone have any stories of finding love in the BA lounges?
I have a dear friend who, despite her joie de vivre and beauty, can’t find love in the usual places. I wonder whether she should replace the endless carousel of dating apps with the luggage carousels of T5 and achieve BA status, opening up the possibility of finding love in the lounge.
My logic? Here are my insomnia musings…
Lounge people either delight in their leisure travel or have jobs that take them across the globe - both potentially nice qualities in a human.
(Get ready to insert wry smile…) Being a BA frequent flyer could indicate loyalty and a willingness to overlook shortcomings and minor disappointments in the name of maintaining a good relationship? On that note I wonder, the higher the status the more loyal the human?
Who knows? Maybe she’ll meet someone who likes Mr Lyan cocktails and getting caught in the walkways (sang in the style of the pina colada song of course
I’d love to hear your stories or thoughts, light hearted or otherwise!
Fly safe .•*
Does anyone have any stories of finding love in the BA lounges?
I have a dear friend who, despite her joie de vivre and beauty, can’t find love in the usual places. I wonder whether she should replace the endless carousel of dating apps with the luggage carousels of T5 and achieve BA status, opening up the possibility of finding love in the lounge.
My logic? Here are my insomnia musings…
Lounge people either delight in their leisure travel or have jobs that take them across the globe - both potentially nice qualities in a human.
(Get ready to insert wry smile…) Being a BA frequent flyer could indicate loyalty and a willingness to overlook shortcomings and minor disappointments in the name of maintaining a good relationship? On that note I wonder, the higher the status the more loyal the human?
Who knows? Maybe she’ll meet someone who likes Mr Lyan cocktails and getting caught in the walkways (sang in the style of the pina colada song of course
I’d love to hear your stories or thoughts, light hearted or otherwise!
Fly safe .•*
May 27, 23, 4:29 am
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Agree with this, lounges should be a haven of calm and good manners. Not the scene for some impromptu speed dating and showing off ones status.
May 27, 23, 4:36 am
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My husband proposed marriage to me on his knees in the mid-galley of a DC-10. He was a young policeman then and he was drop dead handsome. He was on duty at LGW and I was just a Purser with BCAL. Everyone in the crew coming back from LAX was in on the act except me. He was so afraid that I'd say "No" that he thought that I would not dare do that in front of witnesses. This was in 1985 - I married in 1986 - and I was drafted into BA when BCAL was bought out two years later.
This has nothing to do with Lounges and even less to do with BA so I expect that this will be shunted off to the dark side of FT before you can say "Compensation". Still - you may say What's Love Got To Do With This - Reader. I married him.
This has nothing to do with Lounges and even less to do with BA so I expect that this will be shunted off to the dark side of FT before you can say "Compensation". Still - you may say What's Love Got To Do With This - Reader. I married him.
May 27, 23, 4:38 am
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Sugar - they use aircraft and I can vouch for that. The content of the ice buckets nearly went over several.
May 27, 23, 4:40 am
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There is probably a lot I could say here from observation, but I don't think it's that interesting. But I do know of one well known lounge staff member who is in a long term and happy relationship with a passenger they met while at work in T5.
May 27, 23, 5:16 am
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May 27, 23, 5:25 am
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Dear, I think that it is mating in a BA Lounge which may interest him more. I have nothing to contribute to that conversation - people in First Class and aircraft lavatories are far more my experience. However this is a family show so politeness precludes me from saying more. However, maybe we could do with a TFTG after a week of chaos on Nobody's Favourite Airline on is due.
May 27, 23, 5:42 am
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May 27, 23, 5:44 am
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Meeting someone in the lounge would be a promising start for an Up in the Air type of romance based around what hotel and airline elite status cards they had in their wallet. Definitely on my dating bucket list.
Talking about Mr Lyan cocktails, I did find the Eurostar cocktail bars (when Mr Lyan ran those) were a more promising place to flirt. Perhaps the Paris link made things more light-hearted than your usual DFW connection out of Heathrow.
Talking about Mr Lyan cocktails, I did find the Eurostar cocktail bars (when Mr Lyan ran those) were a more promising place to flirt. Perhaps the Paris link made things more light-hearted than your usual DFW connection out of Heathrow.
May 27, 23, 5:46 am
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