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26 Incredible things you didn’t know about Flight Centre’s new HQ

By now I’m sure you’ve heard all about Flight Centre’s grand opening of their new ivory tower in Brisbane. But what’s the real back-story? Here are my 26 facts that won’t win you any pub quizzes.

By now I’m sure you’ve heard all about Flight Centre’s grand opening of their new ivory tower in Brisbane. But what’s the real back-story? Here are my 26 facts that won’t win you any pub quizzes.

1. If you shone a black light on the slide, you would never use that slide again.

2. The entire building is constructed from Jenga pieces.

3. There’s more tinder/Grindr usage in the square kilometres around the office than there is in the entire city of New York.

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4. The official hashtag for Flight Centre’s Office is #fcoff.

5. All of the old Captain Flight Centres are locked in the attic, and thrown food scraps occasionally.

6. There’s a unisex toilet, a male heterosexual toilet, a female heterosexual toilet, a male homosexual toilet, a female homosexual toilet, a male bisexual toilet, a female bisexual toilet, a transgender toilet, a unisex disabled toilet, a male disabled heterosexual toilet, a female disabled heterosexual toilet, a male disabled bisexual toilet, a female disabled bisexual toilet, and a disabled transgender toilet. During late night functions, like at Global, the women use the male toilet.

And men just don’t put the lid down, and never flush. They are just pigs.

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7. If you shone a black light on the boardroom table, you would never have a meeting in there again.

8. The muzak in the elevators is the old hold music from Great Holiday Escapes. “Here we go now… Oh, let’s holiday, oh, Great Holiday Escapes.”

9. The running track is of marathon length. Tod Horton does the whole thing twice daily… During his 15-minute breaks… Boom!

10. Every time the Flight Centre share price drops, management turns off the elevators. Elevators are for closers.

11. When meeting rooms are occupied, the do not disturb sign says, “If this room is a rocking, don’t come a knocking.”

12. The meeting rooms are named after old Flight Centre area names, from “Xanadu” to “Heartland” “Brigadoon” to “FIGJAB, #$#$ I’m good, just ask Bonnie.”

13. There’s Hall of Fame Wall recognising the Flight Centre women who slept with Shaggy at the Pattaya Global Ball.

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The muzak in the elevators is the old hold music from Great Holiday Escapes.

14. There’s a timer and a cost metre in every toilet stall, to remind everybody in the building of their cost of seat.

15. This is the first corporate office to embrace aromatherapy, with the smell of money being infused throughout the office.

16. The password for the security system is “8675309”

17. The contracting and marketing room is always set at 35 degrees, at 90% humidity, with a magnified glass sunroof, and the sound of dripping water. Fergie’s “Glamorous” plays on a continuous loop, cause “If you don’t have no money take your broke ass home.”

18. Each floor has a distinct theme. The youth and adventure floor has a slide and a Top Deck Bus. The air floor has an airline themed meeting room and no legroom. The Cruise floor has deck chairs and bad Wi-Fi. The insurance floor has the company pub.

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Every Wednesday is unofficially Commando Wednesday

19. There are fireman poles throughout the office so during business hours; employees can transfer quickly between floors. After business hours, things go pear shaped with those poles.

20. The construction site was on an ancient Pokémon burial ground.

21. Building maintenance is done by oompa loompas.

22. Magically, there’s always one less meeting room than what you need. And that one guy from air contracting always takes a room without making a reservation. What is with him?

23. There’s a place where the wholesale division of Flight Centre can exercise, relax, frolic, or cool down, it’s called the Infinity Pool.

24. The project was subsidised by incentos (30%) and the Global SWOT team swear jar (70%)

25. Every Friday is officially Fancy Dress Friday. Every Wednesday is unofficially Commando Wednesday.

26. You can even eat the dishes.

Want to know what happened when Skroo took his first slide? Read on

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