My afternoon at SailGP in Portsmouth with ALL – Accor Live Limitless

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• e14 says:

  21 Jul21 July 03:18

  When do Coldplay play ?

  Anyone who stuck around after the 5.30pm finish could enjoy a Pete Tong set. Tom Grennan had played on Saturday.

  • Michael says:

    21 Jul21 July 10:56

    Ask HR

• NigelthePensioner says:

  21 Jul21 July 05:25

  Interestingly or possibly uniquely, the Logan Air flight I have booked to Aberdeen in Sept was cheaper booked as a BA flight on ba.com than on the Logan Air website. So beware……

  • david says:

    21 Jul21 July 06:29

    Points or cash? or both?

• BlairWaldorfSalad says:

  21 Jul21 July 07:08

  Re Jersey, I was looking at Saturday’s departures list on the airport’s website and there were all sorts of interesting destinations listed for BA. Faro and Palma if I recall, and another I forget. Is that a case of the same plane landing at LGW and taking off onwards?

  • planeconcorde says:

    21 Jul21 July 07:36

    They are charters. The last two years they have used LCY based aircraft.

    • Richie says:

      21 Jul21 July 08:18

      They are charters operated by BACF, they don’t have BA codeshare flight numbers, so no avios and no nTPs. The other destination was Ibiza. On Friday evening one aircraft does LCY-FAO, overnights and does FAO-JER on saturday morning and then JER-FAO. Similarly another aircraft does LCY-PMI, PMI-JER-PMI. For Ibiza it’s LCY-IBZ-JER-IBZ starting saturday morning.

      • Richie says:

        21 Jul21 July 08:34

        BTW BACF do tweak these patterns to also include other charters from IOM and GCI to AGP, FAO, IBZ and PMI through the summer season.

• ReadRuth says:

  21 Jul21 July 07:39

  I was lucky enough to get 2 tickets of the Accor VIP for sail gp on Saturday all thanks hfp! We also did not realise how huge ithe event would be. We had a wonderful time in the sun with the best views of the Solent seen through a rosé window and it helped when team GB keep making those wins. I thought the food and drinks were really special and the music brought a real fun party atmosphere.

  • Rob says:

    21 Jul21 July 07:44

    Stuart said he’d met you!

    • ReadRuth says:

      21 Jul21 July 07:51

      That’s the power of rosé.

• Whisper2 says:

  21 Jul21 July 08:10

  It was my first time at the SailGP, but we had the ordinary grandstand ticket. The event was great fun, and I would certainly recommend it.
  Is there any way to get Accor points if you don’t do a lot of hotel stays?

  • Rob says:

    21 Jul21 July 08:24

    You can convert Avios (in Qatar) to Accor at 4 to 1. Bad value except for a redemption like this.

    • Whisper2 says:

      21 Jul21 July 09:37

      Yikes , 4:1! The redemption price for this from Accor seemed very low. Do you think it was just a last minute sale to fill the spaces? Now with the positive coverage they might double/triple the rate?

• Talay says:

  21 Jul21 July 12:22

  We did the wetsuit and laundry cleaning for the team when they visited Southampton the other day.

  In and out, quick turnaround, all to get them ready for this race series.

• ChasP says:

  21 Jul21 July 15:19

  minor point
  “Each SailGP race takes place over two days, with three races per day.”
  Can you have a race of races ? shouldn’t that first race be series or event

  • Rob says:

    21 Jul21 July 15:41

    Obviously you can have a number of races, with the scores aggregated.

  • dundj says:

    21 Jul21 July 16:52

    Further point, SailGP has four races per day. Four fleet races on day one, and three fleet races plus the final on day two. Unless weather conditions curtail racing that is.

    • Rob says:

      21 Jul21 July 17:50

      Correct, error on my part. Too much champagne by that point.

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