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BCal Flight Deck & Cabin Crew Reunion
The 2025 BCal Flight Deck and Cabin Crew Reunion was held on Friday afternoon 26 September. The fifty people who attended all had a good time, but the last three years’ reunions have all had a much-reduced number of people compared to the 2016-2022 reunions, which all had around 130 attendees.
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 each year from 2016 to 2022. So, for 2025, the reunion committee decided to try holding an afternoon event again, but the number attending fell again. Having said that, everyone who did attend the last three years reunions all said they had a good time.
The 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 who 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 have been 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 20 September 2025 from [email protected] with the Subject of: ‘BCAL REUNION 2025 -’. 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 future reunions.
After the relatively poor response to the last three reunions the committee has decided that we need to make changes in the format and timing of the reunion in 2026. We will send out emails to everyone on our emailing list once the details of changes have been decided and also announce them on this www.bcalreunion.org website.
The reunion committee:
Jeanette Smith/Clark, Phil Benson, Karen Banfield/Strawson and Ann Barnes/Roberts
