Frequent flyer lookalikes? Doppelganger's on BA?
Sep 25, 2017, 12:23 pm
#1
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Frequent flyer lookalikes? Doppelganger's on BA?
For the third time, I've had a crew member come up, think they recognise me and ask if I'm a regular to MAD...
Flyertalk has taught me to book in advance, nabbing good seats which tend to result in more crew conversation - a nice bonus! - but this keeps happening.
Will whoever regularly travels to MAD and gets greeted with "Ah welcome back, how was Paris?" please step forth!
Flyertalk has taught me to book in advance, nabbing good seats which tend to result in more crew conversation - a nice bonus! - but this keeps happening.
Will whoever regularly travels to MAD and gets greeted with "Ah welcome back, how was Paris?" please step forth!
Sep 25, 2017, 1:51 pm
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I sort of expected a slightly different angle based on the title and my recent experience. On three separate occasions this summer I had a BA crew member ask if I wasn't really a particular actor. One time this was because a passenger asked the crew member if I was a particular actor while I was sleeping. 
Sep 25, 2017, 2:03 pm
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I've had it a couple of times on LAX flights where I have been mistaken for someone else.
There's also a chap on the NCL flights who always speaks to me like I'm some long-lost friend - but I haven't a clue who he is! Last time we spoke he asked what I'd been up to recently and seemed surprised when I said "Living and working in Las Vegas"
If he's an FT regular maybe this will jog his memory and I'll get a PM
There's also a chap on the NCL flights who always speaks to me like I'm some long-lost friend - but I haven't a clue who he is! Last time we spoke he asked what I'd been up to recently and seemed surprised when I said "Living and working in Las Vegas"
If he's an FT regular maybe this will jog his memory and I'll get a PM
Sep 25, 2017, 2:36 pm
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I've had it a couple of times on LAX flights where I have been mistaken for someone else.
There's also a chap on the NCL flights who always speaks to me like I'm some long-lost friend - but I haven't a clue who he is! Last time we spoke he asked what I'd been up to recently and seemed surprised when I said "Living and working in Las Vegas"
If he's an FT regular maybe this will jog his memory and I'll get a PM
There's also a chap on the NCL flights who always speaks to me like I'm some long-lost friend - but I haven't a clue who he is! Last time we spoke he asked what I'd been up to recently and seemed surprised when I said "Living and working in Las Vegas"
If he's an FT regular maybe this will jog his memory and I'll get a PM
Sep 25, 2017, 3:25 pm
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I sort of expected a slightly different angle based on the title and my recent experience. On three separate occasions this summer I had a BA crew member ask if I wasn't really a particular actor. One time this was because a passenger asked the crew member if I was a particular actor while I was sleeping.
Nobody has you as a Vincent Price (when in costume) body double, thank goodness 😀😀😀
Sep 25, 2017, 4:46 pm
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Sep 25, 2017, 5:07 pm
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This is actually the bane of my existence, and for some reason flying produces the highest incidence of it, with people going out of their way to engage on aircraft.
It invariably starts the same way: "I don't know if anyone has told you this, but you look just like...". Thereafter though, there is little consistency it who exactly it is, the only common denominator is I don't look anything like them. Among the long list of supposed doppelgängers, are Jude Law, Rowan Atkinson, Jeffrey Goldblum, and Jimmy Fallon, and if you can put those faces together into a photofit you'd be doing well.
I got the Jeff Goldblum one on an internal US flight travelling with an actor friend. I replied "No, never had that before, but don't you think he looks like..." and indicated the actor friend. Our interloper considered this for a few seconds then said "I dunno who that is", paused, then added "but yeah, he does".
It invariably starts the same way: "I don't know if anyone has told you this, but you look just like...". Thereafter though, there is little consistency it who exactly it is, the only common denominator is I don't look anything like them. Among the long list of supposed doppelgängers, are Jude Law, Rowan Atkinson, Jeffrey Goldblum, and Jimmy Fallon, and if you can put those faces together into a photofit you'd be doing well.
I got the Jeff Goldblum one on an internal US flight travelling with an actor friend. I replied "No, never had that before, but don't you think he looks like..." and indicated the actor friend. Our interloper considered this for a few seconds then said "I dunno who that is", paused, then added "but yeah, he does".
Sep 25, 2017, 7:06 pm
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets welcomed back by crew as being a regular, thinking Im someone else. I only fly to one maybe two holidays a year, I dont fly for work. So either the crew have very good memories and I have had the same crew by chance. Or more than likely I just look like someone else who maybe flies an awful lot with BA!
First time I was flying to Sydney in First. As I was being shown to my seat another crew member came from the galley and said it was nice to see me back on my regular LHR-SYD route again. This was the first time I had set foot onboard a BA plane for about a year!
Second time I was flying LHR-PHL, as I boarded a crew member came up and said it was nice to see me again and asked what I had been doing with myself since he had last seen me. Again I had not been on BA for about 10 months.
Last time I was flying SFO-LHR. As I entered the lounge at SFO the lady on the desk asked me how were things going at Apple, (I dont work for Apple). This caused a bit of embarrassment for me when the two gents behind then followed me around the lounge until I sat down and then they sat next to me, and proceeded to try an talk about 'upcoming products' in the tech world.
Bri
First time I was flying to Sydney in First. As I was being shown to my seat another crew member came from the galley and said it was nice to see me back on my regular LHR-SYD route again. This was the first time I had set foot onboard a BA plane for about a year!
Second time I was flying LHR-PHL, as I boarded a crew member came up and said it was nice to see me again and asked what I had been doing with myself since he had last seen me. Again I had not been on BA for about 10 months.
Last time I was flying SFO-LHR. As I entered the lounge at SFO the lady on the desk asked me how were things going at Apple, (I dont work for Apple). This caused a bit of embarrassment for me when the two gents behind then followed me around the lounge until I sat down and then they sat next to me, and proceeded to try an talk about 'upcoming products' in the tech world.
Bri