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Food For Thought: Odette, Gaa and other top restaurant chefs come together for #50BestTalks – Rewriting The Menu

Come October, the next edition of thought-leadership forum #50BestTalks, presented by Miele, will tackle the challenge of ‘Rewriting the Menu’ for a more equitable, post-pandemic restaurant world. The virtual event – which will take place from 3-4pm (UK time) on Wednesday, 14th October – forms a key part of the 50 Best Recovery Summit, bringing the gastronomic community together online over three days. Launched in … Continue reading Food For Thought: Odette, Gaa and other top restaurant chefs come together for #50BestTalks – Rewriting The Menu

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Ready For Takeoff: British Airways offers long haul flights at reduced Avios points

British Airways is offering customers the chance to fly to any long haul destination, in any cabin, for half the amount of Avios normally required. For a limited time, the number of Avios needed to book a long haul Reward Flight across any cabin has been slashed by 50%. This means that customers can pick up return flights to destinations like Los Angeles for 30,00 … Continue reading Ready For Takeoff: British Airways offers long haul flights at reduced Avios points

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Ready For Takeoff: British Airways’ final Boeing 747 aircraft cleared for takeoff this week

UNITED KINGDOM – British Airways has announced that its final two Heathrow based Boeing 747 aircraft are scheduled to depart from the airport for the very last time tomorrow morning (Thursday 8 October). One aircraft is painted in its heritage ‘Negus’ livery and the other in its current Chatham Dockyard livery. Thousands of British Airways flight crew, cabin crew and engineering teams have worked over … Continue reading Ready For Takeoff: British Airways’ final Boeing 747 aircraft cleared for takeoff this week

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Food For Thought: Australia’s Maybe Sammy wins Michter’s Art of Hospitality Award for World’s 50 Best Bars 2020

Maybe Sammy in Sydney has been named the winner of the Michter’s Art of Hospitality Award as part of The World’s 50 Best Bars 2020. Established to recognise the importance of hospitality in any bar experience, the award is voted for by 540 members of The World’s 50 Best Bars Academy. These industry experts are asked to name the institution where they received the single … Continue reading Food For Thought: Australia’s Maybe Sammy wins Michter’s Art of Hospitality Award for World’s 50 Best Bars 2020

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Ready For Takeoff: Singapore Airlines launches behind-the-scenes tours, ‘in-flight’ dining experiences and more

National carrier Singapore Airlines (SIA) may have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, but now they’re charting a brand new flight path, and letting guests experience a whole new suite of experiences over the next few weeks. Scrapping their proposed ‘flights to nowhere’ idea after an internal review, SIA is ready to launch the a one-of-a-kind dining experience in their Airbus380, with Restaurant A380 … Continue reading Ready For Takeoff: Singapore Airlines launches behind-the-scenes tours, ‘in-flight’ dining experiences and more

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Ready For Takeoff: British Airways brings its Flying with Confidence course online for the first time

British Airways is bringing its renowned Flying with Confidence course to the comfort of customers’ homes for the first time ever this October. More than 50,000 people have taken part in the Flying with Confidence course since it began more than 35 years ago. The course, which has typically only been run in a classroom format followed by a short flight the following day, is … Continue reading Ready For Takeoff: British Airways brings its Flying with Confidence course online for the first time

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Food For Thought: World’s 50 Best Bars to be unveiled this November

The annual list of The World’s 50 Best Bars, sponsored by Perrier, will be unveiled as part of a virtual awards ceremony on Thursday, 5th November. The announcement of The World’s 50 Best Bars 2020 list follows on from the work of the 50 Best for Recovery programme, which has raised $1.24m to date for the hospitality sector. The initiative included providing grants to 236 … Continue reading Food For Thought: World’s 50 Best Bars to be unveiled this November

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Food For Thought: World’s 50 Best Restaurants brings gastro-community together for recovery summit programme

The organisation behind The World’s 50 Best Restaurants announces that its Recovery Summit will take place over three days, from 13th to 15th October across digital platforms, with a focus on exploring how the restaurant sector can thrive once again. Hosted primarily on The World’s 50 Best Restaurants Facebook channel, but with additional elements presented across a range of digital platforms, the Summit will gather … Continue reading Food For Thought: World’s 50 Best Restaurants brings gastro-community together for recovery summit programme

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Ready For Takeoff: British Airways offers double the baggage allowance for all students travelling to the UK

British Airways is launching its popular annual offer for students travelling to the UK, entitling  them to check in an extra piece of luggage weighing up to 23kg, in addition to the current allowance of one checked bag of up to 23kg in the World Traveller (economy cabin). Moreover, these tickets are valid for a year and students can change dates without a change fee. … Continue reading Ready For Takeoff: British Airways offers double the baggage allowance for all students travelling to the UK

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Ready For Takeoff: British Airways says goodbye to first of its last 747 jumbo jets

On 18th August 2020, British Airways retired its first Boeing 747 since announcing last month that all 31 of its jumbo jets had sadly flown their last commercial services. The Boeing 747-400, registration G-CIVD, departed from London Heathrow this morning under flight number BA9170E after more than 25 magnificent years of flying. The aircraft received an emotional farewell from the NATS Air Traffic Control Tower … Continue reading Ready For Takeoff: British Airways says goodbye to first of its last 747 jumbo jets

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