US Airways Dividend Miles (Pre-FlightFund Merger) - The Walk of Shame... A F/C Confession

I am CP and travel in F/C quite often, but on my recent journey up from FLL, I really felt badly about the "walk of shame." Basically, this is when you sit in your first class seat and watch all those who are sitting in coach walk by. For some reason, everytime this happens, I just wish they had made us board last, becuase the whole thing is so "show offish."

What do you all think of the "Walk of Shame?" Do you ever look at the people as they walk by?

Do you ever look at the people as they walk by?



Now that I have gone to skyteam, in 2 years I will be doing the "walk of shame" about 4 times a year, as I will have no status on us.

I think it will be more like the "Walk of LAUGHTER!!!" Now I know why I see so many zone 1's walking in and laughing...they are UA flyers who know that US has a SHAME of f/c product!

I am CP and travel in F/C quite often, but on my recent journey up from FLL, I really felt badly about the "walk of shame." Basically, this is when you sit in your first class seat and watch all those who are sitting in coach walk by. For some reason, everytime this happens, I just wish they had made us board last, becuase the whole thing is so "show offish."

What do you all think of the "Walk of Shame?" Do you ever look at the people as they walk by?

I do sometimes...I have seen colleagues/friends sometimes walk past me in 2C with a gin and tonic, reading the WSJ...I do feel bad.

I do sometimes...I have seen colleagues/friends sometimes walk past me in 2C with a gin and tonic, reading the WSJ...I do feel bad.
You got a gin and tonic while boarding was going on? Are you sure you were on US? They're the navy blue planes.....the ones that are really dirty.....light gray seats with ink all over them......are you SURE????

What do you all think of the "Walk of Shame?" Do you ever look at the people as they walk by?

I was once flying SYD-BNE on QF, and shared a cab from work with the national Marketing Manager. He was all uppity, name dropping etc. I was flying home to BNE on leave (living in SYD at the time, just going home for holidays) and he was flying on the company purse. I never shared my status with my work colleagues, so imagine his face when he walked past me in 2F, headed for 35B. I smiled at him, tipped my drink towards him saying hello, and returned to my magazine.

I am CP and travel in F/C quite often, but on my recent journey up from FLL, I really felt badly about the "walk of shame." Basically, this is when you sit in your first class seat and watch all those who are sitting in coach walk by. For some reason, everytime this happens, I just wish they had made us board last, becuase the whole thing is so "show offish."

What do you all think of the "Walk of Shame?" Do you ever look at the people as they walk by?

Something just isn't adding up here. IHATESAT, I thought you were a 19 year old son of a pilot (non rev). This is according to one of your recent posts. Therefore, I have a VERY hard time believing that you are a CP, much less a "founding member". What's the real story??

Intersting topic.

Before 9/11 (or when load factors we sane and everyone did not carry everything on) I would routinely wait until just before they closed the flight to board, particularly if seated in F. I don't like spending any more time in a metal tube than absolutely necessary--F or otherwise.

Now, I do the zone 1 boarding, just to make sure I can get my relatively modest carry-on within 6 or 7 rows of my seat :mad: .

You got a gin and tonic while boarding was going on? Are you sure you were on US? They're the navy blue planes.....the ones that are really dirty.....light gray seats with ink all over them......are you SURE????

Haha...unlike many on this board I actually find I get pre-departure service on almost every flight except 321s.

Why would I ever feel shame?

I EARNED that seat by spending thousands of mine and my companies dollars every year. I never did MR's I got CP status the right way. I complied with the rules and hardly ever complained except on here. When US was at the brink and even up until recently I would wait as late as I could get away with before booking travel so as to increase the revenue to US.

That has now officially changed. I now have the entire contract of carriage printed out in my bag along with the Customer Commitment and I fully intend to hold their feet to the fire on EVERYTHING!

US Management has made is decisions and I've made mine. So guilt sitting in 2C? Not in this lifetime. Tell Dougie to stock up on the Gin and Tonics and to keep that snack basket full, cause I'm here for the duration.

Something just isn't adding up here. IHATESAT, I thought you were a 19 year old son of a pilot (non rev). This is according to one of your recent posts. Therefore, I have a VERY hard time believing that you are a CP, much less a "founding member". What's the real story??

I was wondering the same thing...

Anyways...regarding the question, I don't feel bad when I am riding up front. Even though most of the time I am riding up front I'm doing so as an employee. ;) Don't worry guys, I don't get to sit up there to often. Since I've started working at US I've only rode up front when I was positive space on company business. I enjoy first class but it doesn't make me feel anymore special then when I am in the back, just more comfortable. Even when I've flown upfront as a paying passenger (NW) It was nice but nothing to special.

:p

Walk of Shame? I usually refer to it as the "Parade of Envy". ;)

I feel no shame watching people play the "Is this my seat" lottery. That's when pax look at the F seats then look at their seat assignment in some vain hope that the "6" in 26B somehow disappeared leaving them with 2B.

When they realized they crapped out, they look at you while you sip on your pre-flight drink knowing they have to tough it out in the depths of Y.

I only fly TA so I do feel a pang when I see folks head past, knowing what they are facing. BUT I'm so amazed at what walks by. My last flight I saw an adult in pajamas with the feet in them! I've seen folks that would have caused me to say the coach seat prayer "oh please please please don't let that be my seat neighbor" and I treasure and fully appreciate where I'm seated. I know that sounds awful.

Walk of Shame? I usually refer to it as the "Parade of Envy". ;)


I've only heard it referred to as the "Perp walk".

Several years ago, when my wife and I were infrequent flyers, we'd walk past F and assume that all of these folks were business folks with bucks. Now that we fly some 90K miles per year and are elites, we understand how to use the rules of the DM program.

We paid hard-earned money to fly and earn our status. No guilt or self-esteem problems sitting up front on our part.

Barry

That's when I feel bad.

I was on an LAX-PHX-MSP trip with my wife. I was on buisness and going on elsewhere after MSP while she was returning to LAX, so we were on two different PNRs. My upgrade went through at the window and by the time we got the airport and found out, the flight was oversold and the agent wasn't too keen on moving people around. I tried to get my wife to take the seat in F, but she wouldn't.

Of course, I got grief from her during the flight from PHX on the 733...no winning in these fights, but at least we're still married.

Most awkward situation I've found has been when I'm on the same flight as a client (work as a consultant), and I sit in first while my client (who is paying my salary and has paid for all the flights that enabled me to get to CP) tridges down to coach. Naturally, I always try to upgrade clients where possible.

Intersting topic.

Before 9/11 (or when load factors we sane and everyone did not carry everything on) I would routinely wait until just before they closed the flight to board, particularly if seated in F. I don't like spending any more time in a metal tube than absolutely necessary--F or otherwise.

Now, I do the zone 1 boarding, just to make sure I can get my relatively modest carry-on within 6 or 7 rows of my seat :mad: .


Ditto!! I used to be the last to board, even when in Y. Now I jump when zone 1 is announced.

Intersting topic.

Before 9/11 (or when load factors we sane and everyone did not carry everything on) I would routinely wait until just before they closed the flight to board, particularly if seated in F. I don't like spending any more time in a metal tube than absolutely necessary--F or otherwise...

I agree w/ ClueByFour, this is another disadvantage of modern travel - pre 9/11 I could leave work/home at the last minute, zip through security and hop on the plane just before they closed the door; last one on and first one off. Now I arrive an hour early and try to time leaving the US club to catch Zone 1 boarding before someone in 35D puts his carry-on over my FC seat. :(

I feel bad, but I blank it out by thinking about the show "Airline"

Then again, there are a few people that go bye that I'd love to save and have them sit next to me. Then Again, my SigOther might beat some sense into me, if I tried... :p

I then go back to thinking about "Airline" and thanking the maker I'm not back in 22D with Ma and Pa Kettle.


I am CP and travel in F/C quite often, but on my recent journey up from FLL, I really felt badly about the "walk of shame." Basically, this is when you sit in your first class seat and watch all those who are sitting in coach walk by. For some reason, everytime this happens, I just wish they had made us board last, becuase the whole thing is so "show offish."

What do you all think of the "Walk of Shame?" Do you ever look at the people as they walk by?

I then go back to thinking about "Airline" and thanking the maker I'm not back in 22D with Ma and Pa Kettle.

I like to call them "neverevers" (as in they never ever fly).

I always seem to get behind them in security or when they're in row 8 and I'm in 24.

I like to call them "neverevers" (as in they never ever fly).

I always seem to get behind them in security or when they're in row 8 and I'm in 24.

It happened to me last week at SFO. I was in 4C and from the moment I entered door 1L it took me 10 minutes to get to my seat. I love old people, because we will all get there eventually. But, I wonder why they are given early boarding by all airlines as a result of the fact that they tend to slow boarding down...sometimes significantly...while stretching turnaround times.

Well, I hope it is okay if I post in this forum. I dont want to upset people by my presence here. But I feel that it might be okay since I was a long time CP and I believe I am correcting a factual error in the OP and not in any way being critical of the astonishing, effective and loveable management team in Tempe.

The CP "Walk of Shame" is NOT sitting in first and watching others walk to coach. The CP "Walk of Shame" is when YOU as a CP are walking back to coach for whatever terrible reason.

In terms of what the OP incorrectly described, my favorite experience with that was on a LGA-DCA shuttle, sitting in first and watching Joe Biden walk back to coach. :)

Try this one on for size....

As a CP you travel often... You change your flights at the last minute... You find yourself doing the "Walk of BEING REALLY P***ED OFF" as you walk to 35B past a $50.00 First Up PAX who called in 30 hours in advance to get your seat... and they got the deep discount seat for the 1 flight a year that they take to go visit their sister, etc...

Try this one on for size....

As a CP you travel often... You change your flights at the last minute... You find yourself doing the "Walk of BEING REALLY P***ED OFF" as you walk to 35B past a $50.00 First Up PAX who called in 30 hours in advance to get your seat... and they got the deep discount seat for the 1 flight a year that they take to go visit their sister, etc...

Please do not be angry. What you are describing is simply "the CP walk of shame". Putting you in 35B every so often keeps you appreciative of US first class service ;)

appreciative of US first class service ;)


You really have to be kidding, RIGHT? US has F seats, but NOT f/c product! Doug Parker killed that!

You really have to be kidding, RIGHT? US has F seats, but NOT f/c product! Doug Parker killed that!


:rolleyes:

You've got to be kidding. US' F product was dead long before Parker came along. I'm no big defender of what he and his crew have done recently, but US was serving box meals in F long before HP showed up.

:rolleyes:

You've got to be kidding. US' F product was dead long before Parker came along. I'm no big defender of what he and his crew have done recently, but US was serving box meals in F long before HP showed up.

True you can't fault Dougie for that! BUT there are enough things you can fault him for to make up the difference.

Ditto!! I used to be the last to board, even when in Y. Now I jump when zone 1 is announced.

Ditto...too bad that zone 1 is usually, at best, announced as zone 1 and 2, and anyone who feels like it is allowed to board :td:

The one thing I like about the 757s is no walk of shame. FC turn left, Y turn right.

Something just isn't adding up here. IHATESAT, I thought you were a 19 year old son of a pilot (non rev). This is according to one of your recent posts. Therefore, I have a VERY hard time believing that you are a CP, much less a "founding member". What's the real story??

I'm 19 and Non Rev (http://web2.flyertalk.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5664926&postcount=58) to class of 1982 (Penn) and 1986 MBA at Harvard (http://web2.flyertalk.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5599025&postcount=1) to being a lawyer for an international corporation (http://web2.flyertalk.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5507195&postcount=1).

I'm 19 and Non Rev (http://web2.flyertalk.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5664926&postcount=58) to class of 1982 (Penn) and 1986 MBA at Harvard (http://web2.flyertalk.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5599025&postcount=1) to being a lawyer for an international corporation (http://web2.flyertalk.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5507195&postcount=1).


Well indeed. I believe that might be the first person who ever was awarded a bachelors degree pre-conception. The MBA from Harvard to a one year old is not terribly surprising though. ;)

I'm 19 and Non Rev (http://web2.flyertalk.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5664926&postcount=58) to class of 1982 (Penn) and 1986 MBA at Harvard (http://web2.flyertalk.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5599025&postcount=1) to being a lawyer for an international corporation (http://web2.flyertalk.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5507195&postcount=1).


LOL, I saw this too and wondered... Why lie about your background? I personally could care less what his education or work background is. :confused:

Oh, and I'm a fellow Quaker - Penn Class of 1992. But then again, who cares... Some of the smartest, most succesful people I work with only graduated from high school. I may have gone to an Ivy Leauge University, but I know several people roughly my age that never went to college or dropped out that have far more success than me.

Just be yourself...

Oh, and I'm a fellow Quaker - Penn Class of 1992. But then again, who cares...

You're right--no one cares----- about Penn! LOL.

Djlawman
Cornell Big Red '78

You're right--no one cares----- about Penn! LOL.

Djlawman
Cornell Big Red '78

Hey,

Your my neighbor. I'm in Mt Laurel. Stop the Penn jokes or else!!! :)

I want to bring up a point about the baggage space some of you mentioned earlier. It is true that you can just wait until all the others have gone onboard, and subsequently give up overhead storage bin availability. I try to avoid checking bags at all cost due to the fact that at most airports, the wait for checked bags to arrive in the baggage claim is often 45 minutes to an hour (even at regional airports???????). If it were guaranteed to be 10-20 minutes or your money back, I'd probably check my bag and just carry on my book or magazine. But staring at a baggage carosel waiting for it to start when I know I could have just crammed my bag into an overhead bin just bugs the crap out of me. And I usually only have one bag, not the two or three that some people try to tote on. Come on people, get a grip. That huge rolling monstrosity that can hardly even be lifted off the ground does not belong above your seatmates head where it can come crashing down in a good bout of turbulence.

Well, I hope it is okay if I post in this forum. I dont want to upset people by my presence here. But I feel that it might be okay since I was a long time CP and I believe I am correcting a factual error in the OP and not in any way being critical of the astonishing, effective and loveable management team in Tempe.

The CP "Walk of Shame" is NOT sitting in first and watching others walk to coach. The CP "Walk of Shame" is when YOU as a CP are walking back to coach for whatever terrible reason.

In terms of what the OP incorrectly described, my favorite experience with that was on a LGA-DCA shuttle, sitting in first and watching Joe Biden walk back to coach. :)

I often sit in the back of the shuttle, espcially when I just make an earlier flight. With no XOXO's and comp beer in the back and oftentimes nobody sitting beside you in coach with FC full it is really not a bad deal, epecially when traveling to LGA where you can go out the back and inspect the paintjob on the heritage planes that seem to be flying the shuttle routes these days.

Ok, so I'm bored, stuck on what has to be the worlds most boring conf call. Since I'm trying to do anything to stay awake, I did some research on our friend IHATESAT:

Please see the following posts for further details:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=546211

Claims he went to Penn in 1982 and Harvard MBA in 1986

Then...

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?p=5664926#post5664926

See post number 58. The date is April 21, 2006 and he claims to be 16 years old roughly 3 years ago. That would make him 19 right now. So, if we are to believe he graduated Penn in 1982, he would have been approx negative 5 years old!

Yeah, I know I have way to much free time on my hands right now, but like I said, I am on the worlds most boring conf call! :rolleyes:

Sorry IHATESAT, but these claims pretty much invalidate anything useful you've ever posted. There's no need to lie about your background. All of us share at least one thing in common, we all travel WAY to much on US Airways!

2 things I gotta say:

1) IHATESAT could be 2 people sharing an account, though silly it may be possible. But with the whole speculation about lies, and at least Im the annyoing-hated by most on US FT forum- but honest person here.

2) May we get back on topic. I see that people here on FT are sometimes a bit too nosy. Leave IHATESAT alone, you dont know his story, and it is incredibly rude for many of you too dig up stuff on other people, criticize or attack people.
About the topic, confession of a F/C pax. Im 16, so when I get upgraded to F, espcially on those ORD-PHL flights were all other pax or businessmen, I get very dirty looks from people in suits in ties. I try to avoid staring at people, but I always scan to see what kind of people are flying. Sometime I do hear: "Man, that should be my seat" saying and pointing at me. I realy hate that but smile to myself. :D

I have been known to sit in my F seat and observe the MOTOS boarding the aircraft. Las Vegas is a great city to travel from ;)

KGB ^ for your post above. LOL!