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BCal Flight Deck & Cabin Crew Reunion
Friday 26th September 2025
The 2025 BCal Flight Deck and Cabin Crew Annual Reunion is to be held, as usual, on the last Friday in September. That is Friday 26th September 2025. The venue will be the usual one of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Crawley.
In 2023, in response to feedback from people on our emailing list, we tried altering the timing of the event to the afternoon, instead of the traditional evening event that the reunion had always been for the previous 40 + years. However, the 2023 reunion was not as well supported as previous years’ reunions, with only two thirds of the usual number attending. So, we changed the reunion back to an evening event in 2024. Sadly, even fewer people attended. Around half the number we had from 2016 to 2022. Despite the relatively low numbers, the 2024 reunion was a particularly good one, with many people continuing to party until well after midnight.
The organising committee will need to carry out another survey of the 430 people on our emailing list to decide whether to have the 2025 reunion in the afternoon or the evening.
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 [email protected].
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 didn’t help. To check whether you are on our emailing list, look for an email that was sent out on 16 August 2024 giving details of how to buy tickets for the reunion. It came from [email protected] with the subject of: ‘BCAL REUNION – GENTLE REMINDER’. If you haven’t received this email, then (after checking your junk folder) send an email to us at [email protected] and ask to be added to the emailing list. You will then be sent details of the 2025 and future reunions.
We look forward to seeing you on Friday 26 September 2025.
The reunion committee:
Jeanette Smith/Clark, Phil Benson, Karen Banfield/Strawson and Angie Marr
In 2023, in response to feedback from people on our emailing list, we tried altering the timing of the event to the afternoon, instead of the traditional evening event that the reunion had always been for the previous 40 + years. However, the 2023 reunion was not as well supported as previous years’ reunions, with only two thirds of the usual number attending. So, we changed the reunion back to an evening event in 2024. Sadly, even fewer people attended. Around half the number we had from 2016 to 2022. Despite the relatively low numbers, the 2024 reunion was a particularly good one, with many people continuing to party until well after midnight.
The organising committee will need to carry out another survey of the 430 people on our emailing list to decide whether to have the 2025 reunion in the afternoon or the evening.
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 [email protected].
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 didn’t help. To check whether you are on our emailing list, look for an email that was sent out on 16 August 2024 giving details of how to buy tickets for the reunion. It came from [email protected] with the subject of: ‘BCAL REUNION – GENTLE REMINDER’. If you haven’t received this email, then (after checking your junk folder) send an email to us at [email protected] and ask to be added to the emailing list. You will then be sent details of the 2025 and future reunions.
We look forward to seeing you on Friday 26 September 2025.
The reunion committee:
Jeanette Smith/Clark, Phil Benson, Karen Banfield/Strawson and Angie Marr
