OT: occupation of BA FTers
Jan 25, 2021, 11:04 am
#1337
Join Date: Oct 2011
Programs: BAEC Gold, HHonors Diamond, IHG DIamond
Posts: 458
I left my finance job a few years back to chase my dream as an airline pilot... after less than a year flying passengers I was made redundant last summer. Absolutely gutted, but consider myself lucky to have been able to return to a finance job relatively quickly.
Very little air travel in my finance roles, but always managed to maintain status with leisure travel (and a few TP crafted holidays).
Very little air travel in my finance roles, but always managed to maintain status with leisure travel (and a few TP crafted holidays).
Jan 25, 2021, 2:26 pm
#1341
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: London
Programs: BAEC Silver
Posts: 16
I’m a dentist so very little work related travel but a lot of leisure travel as fortunate enough to have staff travel since I was a child as Mum worked in Engineering at BA & has recently retired
Last edited by BSS; Feb 3, 2021 at 12:34 am
Jan 25, 2021, 4:11 pm
#1343
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Edinburgh
Programs: BAEC Gold, ITA Volare Executive
Posts: 450
Responsible for getting a few of my colleagues onto the BAEC ladder. Of course I try and keep FT secret so they think of me as the oracle rather than reading the collective views of FlyerTalkers.
Jan 25, 2021, 4:23 pm
#1344
Ambassador, British Airways; FlyerTalk Posting Legend
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Leeds, UK
Programs: BA GGL/CCR, GfL, HH Diamond
Posts: 42,968
There are a lot of people in the rail industry on FT!
No change for me since my last report in 2016, other than I have now been at my present company for over 10 years and have some grey hairs now. Still very little work travel and none since last March, have been working from home over the last 10 months.
No change for me since my last report in 2016, other than I have now been at my present company for over 10 years and have some grey hairs now. Still very little work travel and none since last March, have been working from home over the last 10 months.
Jan 25, 2021, 4:49 pm
#1345
Join Date: Mar 2020
Programs: British Airways GGL/CCR, Hilton Diamond & Marriott Gold
Posts: 2,612
There are a lot of people in the rail industry on FT!
No change for me since my last report in 2016, other than I have now been at my present company for over 10 years and have some grey hairs now. Still very little work travel and none since last March, have been working from home over the last 10 months.
No change for me since my last report in 2016, other than I have now been at my present company for over 10 years and have some grey hairs now. Still very little work travel and none since last March, have been working from home over the last 10 months.
Jan 25, 2021, 5:21 pm
#1346
Join Date: Jan 2018
Location: London
Programs: BAEC Gold, Accor Live Limitless Gold, Hilton Honours Gold, Avis Preferred Plus
Posts: 1,807
Recently finished my PhD in statistics, was lucky enough to have a pretty healthy travel budget during my PhD so managed a few TP optimised trips to conferences in various parts of the world. Now I am a quant at a large hedge fund, travel for work will be limited at best for the time being and even when things get back to normal, it will probably only be for a few conferences each year. The rest of my travel is personal, visiting family in various corners of the world. I consider myself very lucky to be able to travel to much!
Jan 25, 2021, 6:05 pm
#1347
Join Date: Nov 2016
Posts: 699
Jan 25, 2021, 6:11 pm
#1348
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Las Vegas
Programs: BA Gold; Hilton Honors Diamond
Posts: 3,228
I am still doing the same job as previously, working for a large US law firm and managing our data centres in the US, UK and Asia. It'll be 17 years in February since I joined my current employer and having worked in London, Belgium and now Las Vegas I have been fortunate to see a large chunk of the world as a result.
In terms of the railway industry I actually wanted to be a guard (this was me aged 5 or so) but ended up reading law at university, before ending up in IT. I was offered a role at Railtrack (as it then was) but turned that down, although the priv travel would have been good. I knew a fair few railway staff partly thanks to a driver who lived a few doors down from me when I was growing up (sadly he passed away quite a few years ago) and whose dad was a traction inspector. Not that this would ever happen now, but I did manage a few unofficial cab rides up front.
In terms of the railway industry I actually wanted to be a guard (this was me aged 5 or so) but ended up reading law at university, before ending up in IT. I was offered a role at Railtrack (as it then was) but turned that down, although the priv travel would have been good. I knew a fair few railway staff partly thanks to a driver who lived a few doors down from me when I was growing up (sadly he passed away quite a few years ago) and whose dad was a traction inspector. Not that this would ever happen now, but I did manage a few unofficial cab rides up front.
Jan 25, 2021, 6:16 pm
#1349
Join Date: Nov 2016
Posts: 699
I am still doing the same job as previously, working for a large US law firm and managing our data centres in the US, UK and Asia. It'll be 17 years in February since I joined my current employer and having worked in London, Belgium and now Las Vegas I have been fortunate to see a large chunk of the world as a result.
In terms of the railway industry I actually wanted to be a guard (this was me aged 5 or so) but ended up reading law at university, before ending up in IT. I was offered a role at Railtrack (as it then was) but turned that down, although the priv travel would have been good. I knew a fair few railway staff partly thanks to a driver who lived a few doors down from me when I was growing up (sadly he passed away quite a few years ago) and whose dad was a traction inspector. Not that this would ever happen now, but I did manage a few unofficial cab rides up front.
In terms of the railway industry I actually wanted to be a guard (this was me aged 5 or so) but ended up reading law at university, before ending up in IT. I was offered a role at Railtrack (as it then was) but turned that down, although the priv travel would have been good. I knew a fair few railway staff partly thanks to a driver who lived a few doors down from me when I was growing up (sadly he passed away quite a few years ago) and whose dad was a traction inspector. Not that this would ever happen now, but I did manage a few unofficial cab rides up front.
Jan 25, 2021, 6:37 pm
#1350
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Dundee
Programs: BA Plastic. HH Diamond. Speedwell Bar Lifetime Platinum.
Posts: 1,425
And us at NR have zilch! (Although I’m ex-BR and still have GBPR and FIP)