Originally Posted by
Soupdragon62
We were once traveling back from a mini break in the Bordeaux region which was to celebrate my wife's 40th and my brother in Law's (non milestone) birthday fell on the day of the return leg.
We were in CE and the birthday card I had for him, on the front, had a 1960's style cabin crew saying to a passenger 'Happy Birthday, now **** off back to economy'. The Captain had great pleasure giving this card to my B.I.L and sat with him for a chat for a few minutes as well.
I bought that card for a friend of mine (didn't present it to her on a plane though) because her and her partner fly business/first whenever they travel long haul but have no status because they do it all on points.