No more beer from Chez Léon on Brussels Airlines

[euroflyer]

to euroflyer:
That hick up with that flight booked by somebody else: don't rely on other people, even if it would be a part of their job. Too many things can go wrong. If you book it yourself through the internet, you will learn all the details, and it will make you think about some points like insurance, meals, luggage, preferred boarding,...
The first time it takes some time. But if you have done some online bookings yourself, you know the pittfalls. And you do it in 5 minutes, much shorter than your secretary does ( in a sloppy way )

Hm, you might be right in principle, and I have done this in the past, for example when I took easyjet (because they are the only ones flying Berlin-Geneva direct). But there are 3 problems: (1) we have a corporate agreement with a travel agency through which all the bookings (for the 'real' airlines ) are made, (2) I am doing 150+ flights a year and more than 80% of the original bookings have to be changed at least once for different reasons, even if it only takes 5 minutes each time, we are speaking of several working days here per year plus (3) most of the changes or new bookings have to be made while I am travelling myself, I do not always want to connect my Laptop to some funny Wireless Lan in an airport or hotel just to do those bookings and doing it with the Blackberry will certainly not only take five minutes

[Comet]

My experiences of Newcastle and NCHell are very recent - NCHell in 2006 and Newcastle as recently as summer 2008.

When we were there in 2006 we couldn't believe the lack of decent places to get a meal in the city centre, we ended up in Pizza Hut with a disgusting pile of tasteless modge which they were selling as "pasta" in sauces.

When I was there earlier in the summer I was incarcerated in a hotel beside a dual carriageway and it was gross. My experience of Newcastle is that it is a dingy dump, with run down estates and tower blocks, hideous bridges and a population who cannot speak any form of understandable English.

And as for drunks, it is not very nice to encounter Geordies on tour when you are out on your own and a gang of them start hassling you because they are so blind drunk and plastered they don't know any better.

Think binge drinking and the image of Brits abroad, and you have the inhabitants of that vile, disgusting city to a tee.

I have seen the Angel of the North from the train, like everything else associated with Newcastle, I do not like it.

The actions of Geordies abroad (and in Britain) are what make you feel ashamed to be English sometimes.

[euroflyer]

The actions of Geordies abroad (and in Britain) are what make you feel ashamed to be English sometimes.

Do not be too ashamed, unfortunately every European nations has some nice people like this on offer behaving like , especially when they are abroad ... (look at some Germans in mediterranean tourist destinations competing with some of those Brits you mentioned for who can behave worse or take some Scandinavians virtually falling off the Ferries when they arrive completely drunk, take some Dutch in the ski ressorts in Austria and so on and so on

[Av24.be]

This discussion is very off-topic! Please continue on the subject.

[euroflyer]

oops, you are right of course

must have been too much beer, so not from Chez Léon, as I was on an LH flight yesterday and I tell you never to taste the Warsteiner they do offer, you cannot really call that a beer

[sn26567]

I was on an LH flight yesterday and I tell you never to taste the Warsteiner they do offer, you cannot really call that a beer

I concur: Leon beer was much better than that ... Warsteiner!