BCal Flight Deck & Cabin Crew Reunion
Friday 27th September 2024
The next BCal Flight Deck and Cabin Crew Annual Reunion is to be held, as usual, on the last Friday in September. That is Friday 27 September 2024. Don’t forget to save the date in your diary.
The venue is the usual one of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Crawley.
This year we are reverting to an evening event. Last year when we tried an afternoon event for the first time, it was not as well supported.
Last year we tried a ‘Finger Buffet’ instead of the traditional ‘Four Continents’ three-course dinner. That was well received so we are trying the Finger Buffet again this year. We have managed to hold the ticket price to £30, the same as last year, despite price inflation. Dessert, tea and coffee are included in the ticket price, as is parking. There will be a pay bar, as usual. There will be more than enough tables and chairs to accommodate everyone.
The start time is 6:30pm, with the food being served at 7:30pm.
There are a limited number of hotel rooms available at a discounted price for attendees of the reunion. Contact the reunion committee on bcalreunion@gmail.com if you want further details.
An email will be sent out to everyone on the reunion emailing list in the early summer giving details of how to buy tickets.
The reunion committee are concerned that it is difficult for us to advertise the annual reunion to all those former BCal Flight Deck and Cabin Crew who are not on our emailing list. We would like to acknowledge the help given to us in publicising the reunion by Dave Thaxter, who runs the excellent www.british-caledonian.com website as well as a Facebook group called ‘The British Caledonian Group’. Dave kindly includes a reference to our reunion in his twice-monthly ‘Staff Newsletter’ email that can be subscribed to by contacting him by email on bcalatribute@outlook.com.
We periodically post details of the reunion on the other three BCal Facebook groups, which are: ‘BCal Family’, ‘British Caledonian Airways’, and ‘BCalReunited. BCal/BUA’. However, because these posts are usually only visible for a short period of time, it is better to periodically check our website and, best of all, to ask us to add your email address to our emailing list.
Please pass on details of our www.bcalreunion.org website to any of your former BCal crew colleagues that you are still in contact with and who you think may be interested in attending the annual reunion.
Many of those people who are on our emailing list must have changed their email address because there were many ‘undelivered’ messages returned to us. The three-year gap after the 2019 reunion caused by the pandemic hasn’t helped this situation.
To check whether you are on our emailing list, look for an email that was sent out on 16 August 2023 giving details of how to buy tickets for the 2023 reunion, which was held on 29 September 2023. If you haven’t received this email, which came from bcalreunion@gmail.com with the Subject of ‘BCAL REUNION 23’, then, after checking your Junk folder, send an email to us at bcalreunion@gmail.com and ask to be added to the emailing list.
We look forward to seeing you on Friday 27 September 2024.
The reunion committee:
Jeanette Smith/Clark, Phil Benson, Karen Banfield/Strawson and Angie Marr
The venue is the usual one of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Crawley.
This year we are reverting to an evening event. Last year when we tried an afternoon event for the first time, it was not as well supported.
Last year we tried a ‘Finger Buffet’ instead of the traditional ‘Four Continents’ three-course dinner. That was well received so we are trying the Finger Buffet again this year. We have managed to hold the ticket price to £30, the same as last year, despite price inflation. Dessert, tea and coffee are included in the ticket price, as is parking. There will be a pay bar, as usual. There will be more than enough tables and chairs to accommodate everyone.
The start time is 6:30pm, with the food being served at 7:30pm.
There are a limited number of hotel rooms available at a discounted price for attendees of the reunion. Contact the reunion committee on bcalreunion@gmail.com if you want further details.
An email will be sent out to everyone on the reunion emailing list in the early summer giving details of how to buy tickets.
The reunion committee are concerned that it is difficult for us to advertise the annual reunion to all those former BCal Flight Deck and Cabin Crew who are not on our emailing list. We would like to acknowledge the help given to us in publicising the reunion by Dave Thaxter, who runs the excellent www.british-caledonian.com website as well as a Facebook group called ‘The British Caledonian Group’. Dave kindly includes a reference to our reunion in his twice-monthly ‘Staff Newsletter’ email that can be subscribed to by contacting him by email on bcalatribute@outlook.com.
We periodically post details of the reunion on the other three BCal Facebook groups, which are: ‘BCal Family’, ‘British Caledonian Airways’, and ‘BCalReunited. BCal/BUA’. However, because these posts are usually only visible for a short period of time, it is better to periodically check our website and, best of all, to ask us to add your email address to our emailing list.
Please pass on details of our www.bcalreunion.org website to any of your former BCal crew colleagues that you are still in contact with and who you think may be interested in attending the annual reunion.
Many of those people who are on our emailing list must have changed their email address because there were many ‘undelivered’ messages returned to us. The three-year gap after the 2019 reunion caused by the pandemic hasn’t helped this situation.
To check whether you are on our emailing list, look for an email that was sent out on 16 August 2023 giving details of how to buy tickets for the 2023 reunion, which was held on 29 September 2023. If you haven’t received this email, which came from bcalreunion@gmail.com with the Subject of ‘BCAL REUNION 23’, then, after checking your Junk folder, send an email to us at bcalreunion@gmail.com and ask to be added to the emailing list.
We look forward to seeing you on Friday 27 September 2024.
The reunion committee:
Jeanette Smith/Clark, Phil Benson, Karen Banfield/Strawson and Angie Marr