Thanks Wiggy

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I will get in touch with you again, when my search for easy lodging close to or at LHR starts in case of standby or back to back trips.
From where I live, there are daily BA flights to LHR. Can one with a BA badge simply hop on (like at Lufthansa/Alitalia/...)? Or is it not that simple

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I hope to be adopting BA as my commuting airline...
And just a thought: I checked the BA B777 destinations. By the time I will have been at all US and Gulf destinations - where I have NEVER set foor before - we'll be probably more than a year further. And by then, my seniority should be just high enough to get someting else from time to time

. Who said life is terrible for a fresh B777 FO? I am looking forward to it