TFK International Business Travel Thread

[Mac]

@Big_Dan_Campbell

Impossible to get a direct business class flight back from the West Coast be it LAX or San Francisco to Dublin in the middle of January. This is utter bullshit.

Will have to pick my poison between an east coast or heathrow stopover. East coast means leaving at stupid o clock in the morning while heathrow means that it would be saturday evening before getting back home.

Can you try San Jose > Dub thru Seattle? I’m going that way and getting business class from Seattle in Jan for an extra couple of hundred quid of what the economy fare from SF > Dub is.

[Big_Dan_Campbell]

Im south of LA for bidness. Have gone with San Anita>Dallas>Heathrow>Dublin

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Planes, Trains & Automobiles (9/10) Movie CLIP - My Dogs Are Barking (1987) HD

[Batigol]

Is LA the biggest kip you’ve ever been to?

[Big_Dan_Campbell]

I’ve only ever been to LAX, I spend my time in Orange County with the beautiful people.

It is a very nice area but extremely sleepy and very much like a bubble. The traffic is horrendous

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Some gorgeous Persian ladies in OC.

[mickee321]

@iron_mike

…I’d rarely eat at airports kid. They’re way overpriced. A couple of pints and I’m fine. I might have a BK or Macdonalds if there was one there. But I’d have to be absolutely ravenous before I’d part with either mine or the companies cash for the value you get.

what?
you cant expense food whilst in transit??

[iron_mike]

Course I can. That wasn’t my point though

[mickee321]

@Big_Dan_Campbell

…Coast be it LAX or San Francisco to Dublin in the middle of January. This is utter bullshit.Will have to pick my poison between an east coast or heathrow stopover. East coast means leaving at stupid o clock in the morning while heathrow means that it would be saturday evening before getting back home.

fuck !
i used to do DUB-ORD with aer lingus and ORD-PDX quite a bit with AA- on the way back tho id always try and arrange PDX-LAX with Alaskan and LAX-DUB with aer lingus
my MOO was switch in the mid west on the way over to break things up and on the way back have a long stretch for the home straight so you can rest

nothing worse than landing in say Liberty in Newark and then facing into another 5-6 hours on some yoke to get you to the PNW- you’d be in rag order arriving at 10pm local PST

[mickee321]

@iron_mike

Course I can. That wasn’t my point though

ah ok - the overpriced comment unsettled me tho- thats why we have AMEX

[mickee321]

you really have to reside in a deranged country like israel to fully appreciate the concept that we have US immigration onsite in Dublin
TLV-JFK - upon arrival in JKF you are coralled into some form of crush zone and filtered thru per flight - youd have lines of Arabs beside you from Royal Jordanian and god knows who/what else on some PanAM flight from Guatemala City,
a truly ridiculous experience
we used to utilise the AMS-PDX option quite a bit that the Oregon Project set up for Nike - PDX is a lovely airport

[flattythehurdler]

@mickee321

used to do DUB-ORD with aer lingus and ORD-PDX quite a bit with AA- on the way back tho id always try and arrange PDX-LAX with Alaskan and LAX-DUB with aer lingus
my MOO was switch in the mid west on the way over to break things up and on the way back have a long stretch for the home straight so you can rest

nothing worse than landing in say Liberty in Newark and then facing into another 5-6 hours on some yoke to get you to the PNW- you’d be in rag order arriving at 10pm local PST

You what mate?
Could any international business travellers tell us whether this is impressive?

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Long-short flying West
Short-long flying East
It makes a lot of sense if no direct flight.

[flattythehurdler]

I just hold that jet lag is less flying west

[TheUlteriorMotive]

I find the opposite.

Waking up at 4 or 5am is not much fun. Especially if you have gone to bed at 1am.

[flattythehurdler]

Depends.

[anon7035031]

@Big_Dan_Campbell

Im south of LA for bidness. Have gone with San Anita>Dallas>Heathrow>Dublin

If you haven’t flown out of Santa Ana before it’s one of the more interesting take offs. The runway is short so they hit the gas hard and climb fairly steeply for the first few minutes. Then they have to cut back power so as to not to upset the beautiful people of Newport Beach, so you have several minutes of what feels like gliding until you are over the ocean.

[flattythehurdler]

The most “interesting” landing was galway.
The start of the runway was a little too close to the fence at the far end.
Oh mo Dhia.

[Big_Dan_Campbell]

Very impressed with the BA lounge in Heathrow T3. Fine selection on the breakfast buffet and a nice layout. Bar well stocked, loads of reading material and even a couple of PS4s knocking about

[balbec]

Where are you off to?