Non Revenue Challenge 2010 - an awesome experience

Awe, the fun is just about to begin and competition will be fierce. Please follow me as I dash around the world in 62 days with the goal of obtaining 100 pictures with my team members totalling 5. I will also be collecting monetray donations for my charity, The United Way so please open your hearts and pockets to a worthy cause.



Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Nonrevchallenge around the World

The past 2weeks has been truly eventful. Started out in Brussels where fellow Global Gal Debbie and I had a few hours to complete our Nonrevchallenge photo.
This requires posing while eating a delicious snack and yes, it was scrumptious.
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We then hop on a Lufthansa flight to Frankfurt for a rendezvous with the Bear and Bull sculpture at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange before dashing back to the airport.



Berlin was the next stop for a late night meet with an Ampelmannchen(German name for traffic light).

Midnight found us sleeping in the lobby of the airport area hotel because BER airport was closed.Early next morning we are back at the airport for a flight to London.  There we met with 2 other Global Gals for a photo op. snack at Laduree.



London was the most memorable stop on the trip as I was able to spend approx 5days with all my Warrior friends visiting London for the annual World airline Road Race.


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Delta Dusters







WARRiors


Post WARR was Barcelona, Spain along with some of my Warrior friends.


British Airways flight was late departing London City so my 1 day in BCN became about 10hrs instead.
 Just enough time to complete the Nonrevnorm photo at the Gaudi Park, spend a few hours with our Warrior friends and take a quick nap before heading to BCN airport for a flight to Amsterdam.


In Amsterdam Debbie and I met up with the other 3 Global Gals for our flight to Asia.

We first completed our Amsterdam Nonrevchallenge then flew KLM to HongKong(KLM service was excellent). Flight arrived late in HKG so there begins my first unscheduled layover in HKG for the night.
The team completed the photo at the Aberdeen Harbor then wanders the streets of HKG for a couple hours before getting some much needed rest at the Holiday Inn.


Following morning flew DL to Tokyo for our Nonrevnorm photo which was thankfully not far from our arrival gate.
The skyclub experience in TYO was as usual awesome.

Few hours later we hop on another DL flight to Singapore for the next Nonrevnorm photo, luckily also on airport grounds.
Sunflower Garden


Luck however ran out when we were unable to get on the flight back to TYO. Not to worry though. We purchase a ticket on UA and departed a couple hours later.
The UA crew was very nice. With their help we were able to complete one of the photo challenges onboard.




Second stop now in Tokyo where we completed another photo challenge at the Fuji TV Building.


Running short on time back to the airport for our flight to Honolulu we took the train in the opposite direction and miss our flight to Hawaii. Here, another unscheduled layover in Tokyo. We found the Radisson where there was no room in the Inn (really?). An employee was kind enough to let us shower and change in the Gym locker room (he needs a raise).
Because of  the missed flight we were able to complete this Nonrevchallenge photo here.


We quickly realize that we can get to HNL however flight to the mainland was full.  Operation plan B had to be activated. Flew instead TYO to Salt lake city, rented a car and completed two Nonrevchallenge photo then hop back on a DL flight few hours later to ATL.

The Great Salt lake

We arrive in the ATL approx 10:30pm on Saturday night. Can you say TIRED! Yes we were.
Well no resting.  This week lots to do because the Global Gals are in it to win it.





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