OT: occupation of BA FTers
Aug 1, 2018, 6:29 am
#1216
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Norwich, UK
Programs: IHG Gold
Posts: 309
I'm an IT network analyst for a large housing association. Put simply, making sure all of our offices can communicate with each other. Zero international travel, every month or so I'm away around the South East somewhere. Flying purely for pleasure and VFR.
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Aug 1, 2018, 7:31 am
#1217
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Perthshire/Cardiff
Programs: Clan Loganair, BAEC (Blue4life), AMEX
Posts: 48
Just had read through the thread, a very diverse group of people.
I'm an engineer, working on the design and development work for orthopaedic implants eg hip/knee replacements
I'm an engineer, working on the design and development work for orthopaedic implants eg hip/knee replacements
Aug 1, 2018, 7:39 am
#1218
Join Date: Apr 2018
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 117
Forensic analyst in digital forensics. Cool name for something you might name "hacker". I analyse hacks and reproduce them to find out how they were done. I also search for hacked data to see how it leaked and why it is/was used.
Aug 1, 2018, 11:48 am
#1219
Join Date: May 2017
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 120
I work in financial planning and strategy, business partnering a senior operations guy. I generally fly once or twice a year to the US and once or twice a quarter to Europe. I'll get bronze from business travel but augment myself to silver.
Unfortunately I don't follow my business partner who flies to the US every couple of weeks, Asia a few times a year and is gold in multiple programmes!
Unfortunately I don't follow my business partner who flies to the US every couple of weeks, Asia a few times a year and is gold in multiple programmes!
Aug 1, 2018, 1:55 pm
#1225
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: In the sticks
Programs: VS FC Gold, BA EC Gold, Amex Centurion, EK Gold, ex-G-ATVK driver
Posts: 1,830
My career is varied with several strings including 30+years of Fintech (mostly before it was called Fintech), gadget inventor and manufacturer, space communications systems engineering, and retirement. At the moment I am doing three of those things.
Aug 1, 2018, 2:53 pm
#1226
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Rugby, United Kingdom.
Programs: United Mileage Plus, Avios
Posts: 63
Train Driver Manager for me, and I might know TrainDriverSparky.
Where TDS and I work there’s a decent crowd of BA/OW fliers and we’re all quite happy to share what we’ve done/booked/found out about, via here or personal research. And that even includes them telling me...
Where TDS and I work there’s a decent crowd of BA/OW fliers and we’re all quite happy to share what we’ve done/booked/found out about, via here or personal research. And that even includes them telling me...
Aug 1, 2018, 4:04 pm
#1228
Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: London
Programs: HH Diamond, Marriott Titanium, BAEC Gold
Posts: 283
Soon to be part time pilot in the next few years as my folks retire and their businesses will need an eye kept on them, not really sure how well the two will balance up so will likely have to pick one or the other at some point 
Aug 1, 2018, 6:10 pm
#1229
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Cheddar
Programs: TG *G 20 years
Posts: 406
Risk and corporate governance consultancy helping organisations achieve more. Lessons learned are so infrequently remembered within organisations that the need for advice is cyclical. Long haul is great for letting the brain cells relax, wander and create ideas. Good for TPs too.
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Aug 1, 2018, 6:28 pm
#1230
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: The Big Smoke
Programs: BAEC Silver, Accor Platinum, Marco Polo Gold
Posts: 38
MOD civil servant based in the Falkland Islands for 2 years! Spend endless hours on Air Tanker / RAF Voyager’s to and from the U.K, as well as LATAM for South America jaunts.