I preface this blog with the above information because many of you will not know that Stuart's niece Sarah is a British Airways pilot and that as a consequence his younger brother and wife sometimes get to turn left on the aircraft rather than right. This is a particularly wonderful privilege when you are undertaking an 11 hour flight to South Africa as we did overnight on Wednesday of this week.
We don't really get to know if we have a comfy seat until we are just about to board the aircraft or in most cases, have boarded but if and when it does happen, our smiles go from ear to ear and become even wider when we get served a glass of wonderful chilled champagne before we even leave the stand.
The whole experience is amazing and if we could afford it, we would travel no other way. The service we have received from BA cabin crew over the 10 years plus we have now used staff travel has never been anything other than outstanding and it makes a long journey pass in the blink of an eye particularly when you can turn your seat into a flat bed and get some genuine quality sleep.
It has also presented us with the opportunity to sit alongside some of the UK's and in some cases the world's most famous people and engage in conversation. It makes you realise that they might be a touch wealthier than you but in essence most of them are extremely friendly and very down to earth.
Discretion means that I can't mention any in this blog but I do smile at the thought of them going home and telling their friends that they had sat next to Alistair and Linda Coy on their flight home from Los Angeles.......! On the other hand, perhaps not?
And so we came down to South Africa in BA Club Class and I would like to finish this dispatch by including some photos to highlight the experience. I particularly like the photo of the breakfast which I awoke to having had 5 very nice hours of sleep.
As I have said before, we never forget just what a privilege it is to travel in this way.
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