Visit http://www.cpavirtual.org then the “Flying Tigers” link – they have Delta, Icelandair and many others. You have to pass an entrance exam with more than 70% to join them. Don’t know about Aeroflot though, never seen one for them.

After reading all the replies to this topic, I decided to take the plunge and applied to join BA Virtual. The current wait is 1 day, I was told. I have just obtained a beautiful ARJ package which contains QANTAS, US Airways, Jazz, Lufthansa (very handy for my LCY-FRA flight next week) and British Airways. I am hoping that when I get accepted into BAV that I can fly the regional jet types because that fleet goes to all my favourite airports – MAN, BHX, LCY and best of all – BRU 😀

Thanks for comments!

As to what camera do I use, well I used a Kodak DX4530, but it broke yesterday and I don’t know what the problem is so it’s going back on Monday 🙁 It was a great camera as well, it had all the features that I like – several shooting modes, zoom lens, video recording. It was 5 mega pixels and had a 32MB internal memory, so I am not happy at the moment.

Back to the inflight meals, the veg sticks and cake are actually better examples of the cold Brussels Bistro snacks, the others are indescribable and tasteless.

Slightly off topic here, but the De Zandloper in Brugge is a bar which likes to think it can con tourists, until they dealt with us and met their match!!

They serve beer in the wrong glasses, thinking that tourists don’t know one beer from another, but when we went in and ordered Malheur Blond and Kwak, we knew immediately that it was wrong when the Malheur glass contained something resembling De Koninck in colour, and the Kwak glass contained a pale blond beer. The bimbo of a “barmaid” thought it was funny, until they realised that we knew our beers, then they had to bring the beers in the correct glasses, so it cost them an extra bottle of beer because there was no way we were paying for beer served in the wrong glasses.

When in Brugge, visit ‘t Brugs Beertje (sadly closed on Wednesday, that is why we ended up in Zandloper). There the beer is poured in front of you, and it is always in the correct glass. The beer range is superb as well.

The owners of De Zandloper are con artists and low lifes!!!!!!!! (And it would really please me if they happened to read this, or the review I wrote about them on Luchtzak.be!)

I will enjoy BHX-BRU, I think BHX is a superb airport to depart from, especially on the 08:50 flight to BRU, the airport is quiet at the time you are checking in, it certainly was when we did that run in March.

I too like Kwak, though we didn’t drink on the Grand Place this time because we headed out to Schuman to go to the best chippie in Brussels and then went to the Atomium to go up inside it the day before it closed down (until March 2006). Such a shame it will be to see the delightful Atomium covered in scaffolding.

If ever you go to Brugge, avoid the bar called De Zandloper.