(not so) Important news!
Mar 7, 2015, 8:15 am
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(not so) Important news!
Others know about them as well, but they didn't have the guts to report them!
- Skaltsounia are back in the ATH lounge. Hurry up, will be gone in April!
- Got this from the purser in one of yesterday's flights: the reason that made (almost all) A3's FAs have this standardized bun/chignon/κότσος as a hairdo will be effective in about one month. Almost all of them got their new uniform, including the hat.
- The stickers disappeared from your BCs! To go through security using fast-track as a A*G you now have to show your gold card. I'm certain that will provide half of the FTers posting here additional reasons for complaining about the late arrival of plastic cards.
Now, wasn't intuition recently complaining about nothing new happening?
- Skaltsounia are back in the ATH lounge. Hurry up, will be gone in April!
- Got this from the purser in one of yesterday's flights: the reason that made (almost all) A3's FAs have this standardized bun/chignon/κότσος as a hairdo will be effective in about one month. Almost all of them got their new uniform, including the hat.
- The stickers disappeared from your BCs! To go through security using fast-track as a A*G you now have to show your gold card. I'm certain that will provide half of the FTers posting here additional reasons for complaining about the late arrival of plastic cards.
Now, wasn't intuition recently complaining about nothing new happening?
Last edited by KLouis; Mar 7, 2015 at 11:21 am
Mar 7, 2015, 11:23 pm
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what is Skaltsounia? i fly to Greece in August so will miss it :'C
new uniform sounds great. FA looks nice in the current uniform so would be interesting to see the new one when I fly A3 next few months…
new uniform sounds great. FA looks nice in the current uniform so would be interesting to see the new one when I fly A3 next few months…
Mar 8, 2015, 8:47 pm
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Re the fast lane, do we need to have the card itself of is the luggage tag enough?
Last edited by KLouis; Mar 8, 2015 at 8:55 pm
Mar 9, 2015, 1:39 pm
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To be honest it is not that important; I have never actually been asked to show the BP (With Fast Lane stamp) or any kind of card at all. At most they ask if you're flying business, to which I always say yes. During the hundreds of times I have passed through the fasttrack in ATH I have never had to prove that I am allowed to do so.
Mar 16, 2015, 7:50 am
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Mar 22, 2015, 12:45 pm
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Preview: one can already see them in A3's newest (Greek) TV commercial.
Mar 22, 2015, 3:29 pm
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To be honest it is not that important; I have never actually been asked to show the BP (With Fast Lane stamp) or any kind of card at all. At most they ask if you're flying business, to which I always say yes. During the hundreds of times I have passed through the fasttrack in ATH I have never had to prove that I am allowed to do so.
Mar 27, 2015, 9:55 pm
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This is really bad: No more peanuts! As of a few days ago, peanuts were banned from both planes and lounges. 
They've been replaced with salty "biscuits". I was told, they'll not come back. I think that there must have been complaints with respect to peanut allergies, but this is only a guess.
They've been replaced with salty "biscuits". I was told, they'll not come back. I think that there must have been complaints with respect to peanut allergies, but this is only a guess.
Mar 27, 2015, 10:07 pm
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Ok, how about the always 2-person in the cockpit policy, how is A3 doing with this, do we know anything about it, forget the peanuts for a moment 
, let's focus on pilot suicide prevention first...
, let's focus on pilot suicide prevention first...
Mar 27, 2015, 10:20 pm
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As much as I sympathise with the families of the victims of this amazing act, I really wonder whether we should be discussing, among non-experts, "pilot suicide prevention", especially in a thread dealing, among others, with peanuts. With ten thousands of flights world-wide daily, times 365, times so many years, what were the chances events similar to this can be prevented in the future? And, please, allow me to want to discuss the peanuts and other minor, irrelevant and insignificant items "first", especially after having spent 26 hours in planes and airports in three continents in the last couple of days.