just had Sarah Ferguson on a flight to Newcastle, very nice and seemed down to earth. wanted no special treatment and just drank water. cheap looking luggage though!!!
met the man u team a yr after they won the european cup for the 2nd time got talking to Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, and told him i broke my watch when he scored that goal, offered to buy a new one for me no i said just win a other cup ( wish i had taken the watch ).
when they where around the 1st time the boy group boyz' own with all there yes men and woman. we meet then in business lounge at lhr ronan keating made a pass at girl friend she turned round and said who the hell are you? lol he got the right hump and walked off lol
also met alistair darling in same lounge a few yrs later boarding a flight to manchester i got up to go to the gate was told by the girl there to sit down you need to finish your tea and bics will call you in a bit get the mp on so made to feel extra special
We carried lots of folks down to PMI back in the mid/late 60s all going to visit Harry (Seegoon) Seycombe's place. Along with 'Spike' we had Peter Sellers, Joe Brown, Harry Fowler, Frankie Howard, Micheal Bentine, 'Burley Chasse' (Shirley Bassey, Acker Bilk and many. many more. All were super pax and never failed to perform for the crew & hoards. Different world those days
Flown too many to think of them all, but the top two have to be Kylie and Mr. Depp. (In no particular order, they're both Class A* acts)
Sean Connery has to get a special mention too - a very kind man - and Thierry Henri is always an absolute gent.
For just sheer fun, 28 days with Metallica on the Monsters of Rock tour in 1991 will take some beating (all areas backstage pass for the whole tour, and they even wangled me a pass to see AC/DC stageside, too) *and* I got a name check from Lars on MTV! \m/
just flown Roger Moore and his wife to Paris, both absolutely lovely and charming. the slightly odd thing was that his wife was reading his autobiography!!
Mother Teresa, had the honour to fly her few years back. The best was after disembarking she held my hand and said "son i have nothing to offer but will pray for you".
I'm SLF, hope I can post here, but just wanted to mention I sat next to Kinky Friedman* on flight from LHR to IAH the other day (in economy). Seemed like the nicest guy, cracking jokes and signing autographs for anyone who asked. Interesting that he managed to hang on to the same unlit cigar for the entire 10 hr. flight.
*not many may know Kinky on these boards, but he is a famous country-western singer/songwriter/humorist and unsucessful Democratic candidate for Governor of Texas.
Had a freind who was Manager of Hughes in Calgary many years ago.
Tells the story of Phyllis Diller who after checking in early was nowhere to be found after relentles paging, aircraft now ten minutes late, was found playing poker with the handling staff and ground crew.
I had Boris Johnson, shortly after becoming Mayor of London on board along with his wife and children. All extremely well behaved, and even signed the article in that day´s Sun which the captain wanted signing.
Sir Trevor Brooking and his wife. My dad is a huge fan of his and I was almost named after him until my mum said no! His wife had come to the forward galley and I told her the story, she thought it was hilarious. She knew as much about football as he did, which is a lot. Also had the pleasure of shaking his hand. He also poked his head in the flightdeck to say thank you before disembarking.
Flew from ZRH-LHR with Lee Scratch Perry (he lives very quietly in Zürich.) Still, he is very much in charge of his own unique planet and on this day was wearing a suit with around 100 CDs sewn into the outside from top to bottom. He shone and clanked as he walked. It was a pleasure to shake the hand of a walking piece of reggae history. A very nice person.
great thread...
I am TLF but my brothers fly. Apparently...
Jules Holland: polite and quiet as a mouse.
Laurence Llewellyn Bowen: tall guy, much bigger and quieter than you think, chuntering somewhat because he didn't get an upgrade.
Gwyneth Paltrow: charming, didn't eat anything at all.
Nicole Kidman (travelling sans entourage): low key, politely chatty: surprise surprise didn't eat anything at all from HK to SYD but did knock back a couple of glasses of champagne.
Myleene Klass: tiny even in massively high heels, surprisingly brusque but had small baby with her so perhaps stressed...
Sir Bobby Charlton: very sour, complained twice, a big disappointment
Gary Barlow and wife coming back from holiday: no VIP treatment at all, were really quiet, hardly said anything all flight but happy to sign autographs for all the transfer bus staff.
Charles Kennedy: clearly 3 sheets to the wind, red faced, obnoxious, "do you know who I am"...
Tut-tut Jenny. The correct response is: "Oh God help us ... not another one with amnesia!"
This reminds me of the impeccably mannered stewardess who, on greeting a boarding male passenger with a cheerful "Good morning, Sir" got a snarling "What's so effing good about it?" She sweetly replied "It was merely a form of greeting, Sir, not the effing weather forecast!"
The cabin service director, who was standing next to her, went and cringed in the galley!
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. Different world those days
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