Originally Posted by gorps1

A phone conversation overheard (difficult not to) in the EDI lounge yesterday evening. The caller had just been escorted into the lounge a little worse for wear and called his other half to explain why he was going to be late arriving at LHR.

"The Captain refused to fly me and I was escorted from my seat on the plane. I explained that I was Gold but the Captain said it was irrelevant, I still wasn't flying. It was so embarrassing."