Super Aguri F1 Team - Fan BBS

[James BE ON EDGE]

Hey Gavin and Emma, just thought i'd ask for your feedbacks about the travelling that is required as part of your jobs. do you enjoy the travelling or has it become tiring and boring? and what is the most and least enjoyable travellling experience that you've experienced? and with which airline/carrier?
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[Emma B - SAF1 Team]

Hi there

Well for me your cannot really beat Quantas or Gulf Air.. but I am in the priviledged position of flying Business Class on long haul flights. For economy class it is still BA that gives the most comfortable flight. But we also fly charter with other F1 teams to some of the European destinations as it is cheaper for us....Can you imagine the cost of flying 50 people to 18 races!??? nightmare...

The travelling gets you down by mid season.....the August break could not come soon enough after the middle flyaways when we are away from home for 2 weeks. This year is a nightmare with Australia GP, then a Sepang Test, then the Malay and Bahraini back to backs..... most of the team will be away from home for 6-7 weeks!! Living out of a suitcase and in airports and hotels all year can get you down, but you then get to the end of the season, and a result like we had in Brazil makes it all worth while.

Once Christmas is over you start to get itchy feet again, and long for the first GP and getting back to racing....so you are in the circle of 'oh god when will I get time at home' and 'god I cant wait to get racing again!'.

Having said that, we all realise that we are in pukka jobs that most people would kill for... I am one of only 11 PR's (SAF1 Team Media Communications Manager now don't you know!)....so I am an extremely lucky person.

Hope that this answers your question!
Em
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[billylui2308]

Flying can be stressful for some, not me I love flying But over the years I have found out that while you are stuck in that 33inch little box for 10+ hrs it is a really good place to think about the future (which restaurant to go to or a review of the things that happened at the origin, not work related of course!)

Leaving home 6-7 weeks are not so easy as I do that all the time but now there's something call a Mobile Phone which really can make the difference. Keep working hard and thanks for everything.

[James BE ON EDGE]

Emma:

it's QANTAS btw... don't worry, you're not the only person that say q"U"antas as it is pronounced like so, even a lot of our overseas agents and members at our foreign stations make the same mistakes. QANTAS stands for Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Service... which has become the national carrier as we know it in the 1930/40s.

i love flying as well but i don't get to do enough of it! most of it is domestic shorthaul on 737s A320s and 767s with Qantas or Virgin Blue... not long enough to make a difference. if i fly long haul it'll be to taiwan to see the folks over there once every so often. personally i prefer SQ over CX, MH or TG or CI or QF as SQ has excellent customer service in Y and a great PTV system. but last few times i went on QF and let's just say i wasn't too happy stuck in Y in a 767 for 10hrs... nightmare!! (although i got a flight deck tour and i was allowed to flip thru the logbook so i couldn't complain) however i'd much prefer the 747SP that used to fly to TPE but they're all scrapped by now.

cost of flying 50 people to 18 races? easy!! charter a BBJ or a A319Bizjet! unless if your name is Paul Stoddart of course who had an entire fleet of everything at his disposal (European Aviation), he was famous in 2002 for flying in with all of minardi's equipment onboard his own 747-200 and also flying in with other F1 personnel for long haul races. i had a long conversation with him about that and about the aviation business when we interviewed him in 2003 on our university production tv show.

Which airline/lease company do you guys charter with? just curious to ask...
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05: The Son has Risen
06: THE REAL RISING SON
07: Got to be the BEST, NEVER GIVING UP, Cream of the crop, RISING TO THE TOP!!

BORN IN JAPAN, MADE IN THE UK, KEEPING THE HONDAS HONEST and making our dreams come true...

[Sach]

This is Japanese translation of Q&A between James and Emma

Q:エマさん、ギャヴィンさんこんにちは。あなた方のお仕事の一部である移動について回答をお願いします。お２人は移動を楽しまれていますか、それとも疲れて退屈なものになってしまっているのでしょうか。また、これまでで一番楽しかった移動と最悪だった移動の経験は何ですか。さらにどの航空会社を利用されたのでしょうか。

A:こんにちは。

そうですね、私としてはカンタス航空かガルフ航空が一番です．．．でも私は長距離移動の際はビジネスクラスを利用できる特権つきの立場にありますから。エコノミークラスでは依然ブリティッシュエアウェイズが一番快適なフライトを提供してくれます。が、私たちはまた、ヨーロッパ内での移動は他のＦ１チームと一緒にチャーター機を利用します。そのほうが安上がりですから．．．．。５０人もの人数を１８レースに飛行機で移動させる費用を想像できますか！？？？悪夢です．．．。

移動はシーズン半ばには私たちを憂鬱にさせます.....自宅を２週間離れる中盤の移動の後には、８月の休暇が来るのが遅すぎると感じます。今年の日程はは最悪で、オーストラリアＧＰの後にセパンテスト、それからマレーシアとバーレーンが連続で組まれています.....ほとんどのチームが６，７週間家から離れることになります！！スーツケースに詰めた荷物だけで空港やホテルで一年中過ごすのは、憂鬱になります。しかし、シーズンの終わりになって、ブラジルで得たような結果が出ると全てが報われます。

クリスマスが終わると、また落ち着かなくなってきて、最初のグランプリとレースに戻るのが待ち遠しくなります....ですから、「ああ、いつになったら家でゆっくりできるんだろう」と「ああ、レースに戻るのが待ちきれない！」という気持ちの繰り返しです。

とはいうものの、私たちは皆、殆どの方が是が非でも欲しがるいい仕事に就いているということを自覚しています．．．私は１１人しかいない広報責任者の一人です（ＳＡＦ１チーム・メディアコミュニケーションマネージャーですよ！）....ですから私はとても幸運です。

ご質問の回答になっていればよいのですが！

エマ
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