You know your'e a FlyerTalker When:

1. You are on the phone with the reservations agent feeding them the flight information like spelling your name J Juliet O Oscar H Hotel N Nora Last Name S Sierra M Mike I India T Tango H Hotel. Saying you want Air France 084 in Y Class and asking to search for the Fare Basis Code YLLAP90 to get an airfare that allows you to stay 90 Days.

2. You want to arrive at the airport early to watch planes take off and land. As well as to spend time at the lounge. You will spend $50 just to visit the lounge before a flight.

3. When your at the ticket counter you ask the agent to through check your bags and to confirm the HK status on all sectors. You then ask for seats by their exact row and seat letter.

4 . At Hotels you go up to the front desk and confirm your requests like a travel agent. Hello my name is XXX and I have a reservation and would like to confirm a Non Smoking 2 King Bed Room on the High Floor away from the elevator and ice machines with the best view possible. Or if you have stayed at the hotel/resort before you went around noting down the best rooms so you can call to request room 2344 etc.

5. You look on SeatGuru before booking any flight in Coach to be sure the plane has Inflight Entertainment and it has to be an AVOD system. Before you book you look at the Inflight Entertainment Guide online of the airlines you are considering and you base your choice if the airline has Airshow a Camera to view different angles while flying, enough CD's and Movies. You further go online to get advice which airline has the best IFE system in terms of response time and if they offer USB jacks.

6 . You want to be sure there is a good alcohol selection in Coach on International Flights so you will change an Award Booking from Air Canada who switched your itinerary to Rouge their low cost carrier that offers no IFE or complimentary alcohol to Lufthansa which does(I did this and I'm the first one to admit I changed from Air Canada Rogue to Lufthansa) and the upside is the new flight itinerary on Lufthansa from Barcelona-Munich-Vancouver and Vancouver-SFO on United gets you back to SFO 90 minutes before the Air Canada/United flight does.

7. You can remember what inflight entertainment was played on a 1996 TWA flight (Jan Arden Insensitive, Rod Stewart So Far Away, The Tony Rich Project Nobody Knows, The Presidents of the United States of America Peaches, Gin Blossoms Follow You Down, Celine Dion Because You Loved Me. And you can remember the movies they showed(Up Close And Personal and The Truth About Cats and Dogs). Oh and the meal from JFK-TLV was Turkey with a Cheese Sauce and a Banana Muffin and Eggs for Breakfast. Only a FlyerTalker would remember these things.

8. You remember it being a sunny day when you departed on Friday May 15 1998 on Air France 83 to Paris CDG on the 747. The song I heard the Wednesday before the f light was Bittersweet Symphony by the Verve. I remember going onto Air France's Website and downloading information about their Tempo Cabin and I had it posted in the laundry room 1 month before the flight.

9. You can remember the days and dates of your big trips. And you have a visual image playing through your head of the trips.(I can visualize and remember a lot of details about my trips etc). I'm the type of person if I have been through SFO once I can get you to your gate quickly. I have a visual memory of roads etc.

10.In 1996 I would call up TWA's FLIFO Line to hear the cheery voice proclaim "TWA Flight 884 has left the gate but is not yet off the ground please call back in 10 to 15 minutes for an update" I would just keep hitting the key to repeat the status until the flight took off(:. Also in 1996 I would call Delta Airlines during their busiest times just to hear Adimus playing on their On Hold system.

11. I started printing my own boarding passes back in 2000 when AmericanA Airlines gave bonus incentives in miles for doing so.

12. When EasySabre was around I would come home after school back in the days of DialUp and my Father would come in to see why the phoneline was tied up as he needed to send a fax. I remember telling my Father please let me look up one more itinerary. So I would log onto EasySabre in the middle of the night when everyone was sleeping. I was 10-11 at the time.

13. I remember asking a friend who worked at the airport to send me the OAG guides and I would look up unique schedules and plan exoitic longhaul trips in my head. I played a game to see the longest nonstop longhaul flight that I could find.

14. When kids were watching cartoons I was watching shows like Rick Steves. In 1998 he had tv marathons on Saturdays and I would sit there from morning till night watching them especially before our 3 month European trip.

15. I remember my Parents breaking the news to my teachers that I will be taking a 3 month trip to Europe and they were glad that I could have the experience since our school emphasized experential education. They asked me what my itinerary was and I started rattling off the Airport Codes and dates thinking like a travel agent but had to stop myself.

16. A FlyerTalk God told me in the middle of the night one early morning in February 2012 to call up American Airlines to see if I was going on a Trans Atlantic Cruise from San Juan-Barcelona. I just picked a random date of when the cruise was supposed to depart so I gave the date and possible flight connection SFO-MIA-SJU since I thought we'd be booked on a RedEye Flight. The agent pulled up my Father's and my Reservation. He had this booked since November and didn't tell me so I randomly guessed the itinerary and I was right. Told my Dad when he woke up"Guess what I found out we're going on a cruise and gave him the American itinerary"(:. He was amazed at how I found it out but I did not tell him about my close contact with the FlyerTalk God who FTG and I have a strong intuition about things like this especially when it comes to travel(:.

I can think of others but I know other FT'er's will want to read other posts.