A Year of Fun at Brightsun

We have been very busy this year with our partnered airlines at key team-building and training events, as well as familiarisation trips. Click to see what we’ve been up to!

When it comes to the end of a year, it’s always nice to recap on all of the amazing things that have happened and take some time to sit back and reflect. Brightsun has been up to lots of fun stuff this year with some of our major partner airlines including Emirates, Lufthansa, Royal Brunei, Gulf Air and KLM.

One of our first experiences this year was an airport tour with United Airlines and Air Canada. Some of our team attended and toured around the aircraft and lounges at Heathrow Terminal 2. These airport tours really help us with our product knowledge, and provide us with more experience which we can use to advise and inform our customers.

In April we went go karting for our team build evening with Lufthansa - this was really fun and carefree! The multi-level indoor track on electric karts is one of the fastest tracks in the country, located in Acton. A lot of competitiveness was experienced here between the team and we also enjoyed unlimited pizza. Delicious!

A few members of our team were delighted to attend Emirates’ launch night to celebrate the airline’s new Stansted route to Dubai in May. Stansted is now the third London airport to be served by the airline, opening up travel to lots more passengers around South East England, Cambridge and Essex - 7.5 million to be exact.

Courtesy of KLM, some of the team enjoyed a great weekend trip to Paris this summer, including a wonderful city tour with a visit to the stunning Sacré-Cœur Paris building and a tour of Charles De Gaulle Airport, helping us to further increase our product and destination knowledge, in order to assist our customers with their queries.

This year was a very important year for our India office as they celebrated 15 years in the travel industry. To set off the celebrations, our colleagues in India as well as the founders of the company and managing director from the UK attended a Bollywood themed party which included an entertainment line-up and lots of Brightsun awards. A fantastic night was had by all!

During the summer a select few from Brightsun enjoyed a wonderful long weekend in Washington and Toronto with United Airlines and Air Canada. Highlights included a visit to CN Tower, which is one of the main landmarks of Toronto, and an Old Town Trolley City Tour in Washington DC which was a wonderful experience.

We enjoyed a bowling evening in June with Royal Brunei Airlines, grouped in teams with competitions to win excellent prizes. Earlier in the day we conducted training in the office to learn about the airline’s route network, cabins and aircraft, and it was nice to enjoy some fun in the evening and build our relationship with Royal Brunei.

Six members of our team visited Thailand this year which included an exciting stopover in the charming Middle Eastern city Doha. All in all this trip was an unforgettable experience with excellent sightseeing tours, visits to iconic attractions including beaches and temples and checking out some great hotels which we are now offering to you as part of our holiday packages.

In July one of our team members experienced a wonderful FAM trip to Bali courtesy of Thai Airways. During the trip Brightsun was presented an award for the promotion of tourism to Bali, which was awarded by Narongrat Sitthi, General Manager of Thai Airways. We were absolutely thrilled with this accolade and hope to continue our promotions.

We met up with Emirates in August for an excellent quiz night which included games to build the tallest Burj Khalifa out of playing cards, as well as blindfolded drawings of the Burj and an Emirates airplane. A very fun and creative night with great prizes up for grabs and even a yummy Brightsun/Emirates cake.

In August, some of the team experienced a FAM trip to the incredible city of Rio De Janeiro in Brazil courtesy of British Airways, with visits to key attractions including the famous Christ the Redeemer statue on top of Corcovado Mountain and the stunning Copacabana Beach. The team also took a cable car up Sugarloaf Mountain!

Courtesy of Thai Airways, some of our team enjoyed a memorable cooking class back in September where they learned how to make a selection of delicious Thai cuisines. So, not only can our team provide you with great value tickets and holidays to Thailand, but also may be able to cook you a nice Thai meal!

September was definitely the foodie month for Brightsun. As a team we went to Pizza Express to enjoy a pizza making extravaganza with Hahn Air. We tossed dough, spread out our own toppings and even got to sample our delicious creations afterwards. A very fun evening was had by all!

In October we enjoyed an immense team build evening with Gulf Air which consisted of delicious Indian cuisines, fun Bollywood dancing and dressing up in saris. The male agents really wore the saris well! There were prizes to be won aswell which was a great incentive for us.

Last month we delighted some of our United Airlines passengers with free lounge passes to use at Heathrow airport – they were thrilled with the surprise and this is something we want to continue in the new year  watch this space!

We also enjoyed a fun and fantastic Thanks Giving themed quiz night last month courtesy of United Airlines, Air Canada and Lufthansa. There were different categories in the quiz including American sports and ‘name that city’. The tie breaker for the grand prize was decided from who could fly their paper airplane the furthest – very fun!

Some of our team have just got back from an amazing FAM trip in Vietnam courtesy of Emirates and HA Travel, and had an incredible time exploring. Stay peeled as next week we shall be posting a blog all about this unforgettable experience!

We hope that next year brings just as much fun together with the airlines!