A First Class binge: BA F to CPT wine country

[Petrus]

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Background:

My Father turned 60 earlier this year and I thought it was fitting with a treat. Initially the idea was to head to MIA
and Florida to check out a Shuttle launch among other things. Availability did disappear however so I now tried to find
redemption seats to NYC instead. Petrus Sr. is very fond of the big apple and has not been for a couple of years.
As I was playing around with BA.com and the redemption tool the idea of Cape Town struck me.
And could I believe it! F seats available on the dates I had planned for.
I was slightly apprehensive to flyng BA F. My last sector to NYC during the May Strikes was terrible.

Now, finding F availability to Cape Town for one is fluke. For two is equal to winning the lottery.
Who was I to complain? Tickets booked asap and now my main worry was for dad not to log in to his BAEC account
as the booking would be visible there.

Petrus Sr. is winding down his business and is training to become a somelier. I believe the first level certificates are completed.
He had not been to Cape Town yet. This place is basically packed with stellar vineyards in a 50 mile radius.
Combine this with flying BA F and you get a proper First Class wine trip. Dad would be pleased.

A polite note: The picture quality is varying dramatically due to a mix of cameras, poor light, wrong settings and a lot of wine.


Sector 1:
ARN-LHR A320
Seat 2D
Club Europe (intra-EU J)
Crew: Above average

Dropped the wheels at ARN, which I reitirate is one of the most dull, boring airports ever.
As roads in Sweden are empty this time of the year we arrived early. The option now was to
head to the dreadful outsourced lounge at ARN.





Boarding was called and very smooth. We sat down for the just over 2h hop to London.
Champagne please. It turned out we where the only ones in the Club Europe cabing
More Champagne please. I believe I finished 4 mini champer bottles, for a total of 75cl.
I was now in that happy stage of early champagne intoxication.
















Finals to LHR.




We had a 5h 30 min layover in London. We headed into London for Dim Sum however there would be three of us.
As a surprise my sister, who lives in London, was waiting at the table. Petrus Sr. was speechless.
After the delicious Dim Sum at Royal China we headed back to LHR on the HEX.

T5 was a bit of a choker in the non-premium area:



Compared with the F check-in:



South security cleared:


Welcome to the Concorde Room dear Daddy:






To be continued....