Leg 2 pt 2 LHR - JFK

LHR - JFK

British Airways - BA177

G-RAES

B777-200

1310(L) - 1555(L)

Well, what can i say - from the minute i walked through the doors at LCY to leaving, i thought i was being treated like royalty, it hasn’t stopped since. this IS definitely the way to travel.

GAMA had better up their game :p

Check in was a breeze, with another Manager trying to sort out the compensation - no luck

then whizzed through security. It's like arriving at GAMA - everything is just waiting for you to turn up :)

Was pointed in the direction of the lounge, then discovered that the lounge i thought was supposed to be in, wasn’t that one, i had to go back downstairs and goto the BA Concorde Rooms - holy moly.

Entrance

?Board Room - whatever it's called - conference facilities, computers and TV

Restaurant cubicles

I didn’t have to do anything, my drinks got brought to me, was offered a fully meal (plumped for a breakfast, shall we say i think i was the last person to get served breakfast) even had time for a shower (i had to do that myself:P - i can recommend one of those funky rain shower head things)

Then it was time to get on the flight - was one of the last on, due to getting slightly lost. Now this is just surreal, i got shown to my seat - someone from the cabin door actually took me to the seat - i did say “why, don’t you trust me to find it” and none of this fighting to put stuff in the overhead bins - i have 2 just to myself :)

Initially i was in Seat 1A, but that can get a bit noisy apparently, so was offered whatever seat i wanted - there were 5 of us, out of a total possible 14, - took 3K - to get some scale of the space/length the seat takes up - whilst there are 2 windows, the space is equivalent to 3

My Seat - 3K - Note the 2 windows each seat gets - mind you can't 

see much out of them as they're so far forward

the pull out telly, plus my warmed nuts ;)

Champers arrived, everybody came to introduce themselves - think the only one who didn’t come to say hello was the Pilot :)

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Nearly forgot to mention the sleep suit, ear plugs, eye mask and wash bag - wonder if AMW will let me wear that on nights :)
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Anyway back to the plot - there was none of this “chicken or beef” malarkey on the flight for me- There’s a 6 page food and drinks menu to digest (forgive the pun)

I’ll let the pics do the talking

i cannot fault the service, the crew (Lesley, Geraldine and a gent who's name escapes me) were polite, friendly, engaging and un-intrusive and knew their wines - clearly well trained.

After the meal, where i nearly blew up (with hind sight saying that to the crew may not have been the best choice of words, will have to think of a better one) i ate so much, whilst i went to the toilet, the crew made my bed - came back to a flat "bed", mattress placed down and then a duvet/pillow supplied.

I’m now sitting at my “command post” with wine, listening to music, all at FL380, with blue mood lighting

someone pinch me :)

Then, at about 40 mins to landing, afternoon tea arrives - sandwiches (crust removed) scones with jam and cream and sweets - i may have scoffed them all before remembering to take a pic

Got to be 3rd off the aircraft :) which meant i was first in the queue to Immigration :) 

This didn't go quite according to plan, as there was another aircraft just arrived in front of us, but the back half of my flight, became the front half when they were moved to another set of US Customs lines - i'm not entirely sure what was going on, but there was some medical emergency going on, which meant they had to move people quick - Big EBOLA warnings everywhere

Hallway was bloody hot whilst waiting, but i was impressed to see that families with children were taken out of line and taken to the front, and relieved - i just love that sound of screaming kids :)

Firstly i have to say hello to some new viewers - the crew from my British Airways and Finnair flights

Need to put the pics up separately on to the blog - outwith wifi, my laptop has no net access, but the pics are on the phone - transfer hell :)

Slightly out of sequence (and focus) BA177 over taking a BA 787

Can't remember its proper name, but it tasted lovely

Starter - Scallops :)

Main

High Tea - There was clotted cream, scones - but no evidence remains :)

George looking forlornly over his home county