Originally Posted by
RxCapt
It has less to do with FAs treating PLTs and EXPs nice but more to do with the fact that the ground cleaning crew usually sets up row 17 as if they will be used as crew rest seats, regardless of whether they will or not so they always get the duvets and nice pillows. At least that is what an FA told me one time.
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In my, very limited, experience of being in Row 17 we had the red blankets. But, n=1 is always problematic. And, we were PLT at the time. I'm not worried as I almost never need a blanket because I always seem to sit in the warmest seat on the plane. I'd like a "NGBC sweatband" instead of a duvet. Regardless, all the explanations of the duvet make perfect sense.
Originally Posted by
BarkinJ
I might have come across the same young man. He's been doing MRs on this route pretty much every Saturday for the past month or two.
Several weeks ago, we were talking at the gate at BOS, and he found out I was PLT. He seemed very upset that I got an upgrade over him (EXP) that morning on a 763 (I never got the chance to explain to him that I burned 15,000 miles to make it happen). The next week, when I was MRing on the same flight, he approached me and told me that he has friends at AA, and that they told him I'd used miles to upgrade, and that he had thought something was fishy.
Usually, I blow off people who claim to have friends in high places, but he knew a surprising amount about my previous travel (that I'd used miles for one segment, and stickers for another, that I'd be on a returning flight BOS-LAX the day after the next). Kind of freaked me out. Since I'm not MRing on that route anymore, I kind of blew it off.
Interesting thing: On that flight where I'd upgraded w/ miles (and his upgrade didn't clear), he sat in 17 A, with an empty seat next to him. Same on one of the other flights I was on with him.
So I have no idea if something was amiss here. But I wouldn't be shocked to hear it...
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If this guy is "pulling strings" (or is himself an employee, perhaps?):
- Should anything be done?
- What can be done?
- What should be done?
- By whom?
The potential that somebody at the airline is sharing personal information about customers with other customers is very troubling.
Jim