Originally Posted by VivaTheBeaver
In the BA lounge at JFK, lots of Aussies being told to pick up their bags as their incoming aircraft hit a blast fence on the taxi in.
I just missed the excitement - I left the lounge about 45 minutes before you posted (on the 1900 BA to LHR), abandoning a number of Aussies sitting on the next sofa still eagerly discussing their forthcoming QF flight. Little did they know what was to come.