If I'm going to continue spending money on this site after January 23rd, it'd be nice if you lot could help by at least keeping this forum chat alive and kicking! Joking aside, with nearly 2k members on here now, it's gotta be worth it for us to continue with it... so get contributing! 🙂

News reports today state that a British Airways flight was intercepted by NATO fighter jets after it failed to respond to air traffic control.

Alarms were raised when pilots on a flight from Cyprus to London went radio silent.

German Eurofighter Typhoons were quickly scrambled, fearing a possible terror incident. Ummm... we all know what Cyprus-London flights COULD be like..... but.....!!!

As most of you will know by now, we're having a reorganisation of all our Crew Social offerings to you, as this old geezer plans to sally forth into the sunset - cocktail in hand - in January. The main Facebook site on Crew Social will be sorted this week with our own Juke Dilliway as the new Admin. - which just leaves this one to be sorted by January 23rd... or it will be left to its own devices. There is an option in that event though:- a QUID A YEAR subsctiption from you all will see it become a Premium site with our American hosts (Wix) and managed and constantly updated. The question remains as to whether you lot can stretch your budgets to that extortionate amount? Answers (on a very small postcard!) underneath

per-lease... or we may need to decide between us at our 'management AGM' on…

In line with this being the last 'official' Longhaul reunion I organise, we've been talking about whether it's maybe time to start having a 'general' reunion from now on due to dwindling numbers at the individual ones? Time will tell, but, for this one, all are welcome" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1st, 2026 !

   Right... it's CONFIRMED. Drinks (pay-bar!) from 1600... buffet at 1800...

   Browns Brasserie & Bar, The Promenade, Barry Ave, Windsor SL4 1QX.

   Cost:- £28p.p. payable to:-

   Sort code:-30-64-37... Acc.#:- 32460760... Ref.#:- 'Reunion'.

   First-come, first-served ... Orl right???!!! xx.

Hi y'all ...

The above is over for the time-being, thanks to our hosting partners.

The login issue with the website has now been fixed. You can now create yourself a password:

Visit https://www.crewsocial.org/

On the login popup click 'Log in' NOT 'Sign up', 

Click 'Forgot Password' and create yourself a password. 

' If you're a member of our Facebook 'Crew Social' group as well, you may be aware that this elderly geezer has finally decided to call time on it all. Having joined B.O.A.C. on January 23rd, 1967, it’s now coming up to time to say goodbye to you lot – emphatically, my ‘second family’.

'At last’, I hear you say! As I've said over there, the US hosting company (Wix) has been working on this site today to give us a workable 'chat' page, along with a re-vamped 'Registration' process. I'll be handing over the FB page to Juke Dilliway and our lady Moderators this month, whilst I content myself with tidying this site up in time for my 60th year of association with our airline on January 23rd next year. At that time, I'm hoping someone will come forward and do what others have done in the past (…

... From Tony Chetham:- 'This is a fascinating piece of Australian aviation ephemera because it combines three separate contemporary items into one humorous magazine page:

    • The poem A Plane with No Beer

    • A genuine newspaper clipping

    • A topical cartoon

Together they document a short-lived but much-publicised event aboard Qantas in the late 1970s.

The newspaper article

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNV8Z1rPOUo (no soundtrack on this one) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KBc-Y5pquU

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