Originally Posted by Dorian

^ Thank you.


Just to give another example of how absurd this is...I am SE and have an Elite tag on one bag from a year I didn't make the cut.....so forget the DYKWIA crap.

Originally Posted by YOWzer

I'm relatively new to this forum. It made me realize that as a passenger, I am observed/judged by other fellow passengers that I didn't know before. Threads like these has made me self-conscious of being an SE, as I find ppl tend to view SEs more negatively than positively...

Originally Posted by yvr76

This may just be my experience, but the few arrogant passengers I've ran into over the last couple years have all been Es (a couple to the point of shouting at check-in or gate agents). All the SEs I've met have been a lot more easy going, especially when things go wrong.

Originally Posted by yvr76

This may just be my experience, but the few arrogant passengers I've ran into over the last couple years have all been Es (a couple to the point of shouting at check-in or gate agents). All the SEs I've met have been a lot more easy going, especially when things go wrong.

Originally Posted by airbus320

Naturally posted by one who is SE.....

Originally Posted by NordsFan:18200491

To paraphrase Dr. King. :

I have a dream that my four little children will one day board commercial aircraft and enter lounges where they will not be judged by the colour of their FFer program status tags, but by the content of their character.

I have a dream.

Originally Posted by mendacious7511

Best reply!

For the record, I was just posting my observations. I personally keep my old tags on my small carry on for when I fly AC or UA Express)

I am sorry for actually looking at other Pax while waiting in the security line. No judgment intended, just filling the time.

Originally Posted by unvlad:18199416

Wow, I thought people are trying to be kind to each other at FT, and now there are folks ranting about those who rant about the OP's rant

Just by observing how many replies were posted, the OP seems to have the finger on the pulse of time... I COULD imagine that there are pax keeping their status tags in the hope of obtaining some recognition, even if it was just that a FA or a luggage handler, in a spontaneous reaction, treats their bag with more care.

I personally kept my last year's Elite tag (am Elite again this year) because I liked the leather strap more, and in particular since AC, when asking whether we wanted just our name on the tag or also the address, didn't tell us that there would be no way to write / put a label with your address under a protective cover like was the case with the 2011 edition. I am likely going to move this year and didn't want my address printed permanently on the tag.

Originally Posted by NordsFan

What the heck....

Apologies to the Bard :

I am a FFer program top-tier member. Hath not a top-tier status member eyes? Hath not a SE hands,
organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same
food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases,
heal'd by the same means, warm'd and cool'd by the same winter
and summer, as a non-status member is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If
you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die?
And if you wrong us, do we not revenge? If we are like you in the
rest, we will resemble you in that.

Originally Posted by global_happy_traveller

did we not have another thread that discussed on the exact same topic?

Originally Posted by KenHamer

You may claim there was "no judgement intended" but what you posted (in part) was

which very clearly indicates that you think some ex-SEs are trying scam the system by falsely implying they are Super Elites when in fact they are not, and then implying that they are somehow lesser persons"!".

Any rational person reading that could quite reasonably infer sneering disdain for those you consider "beneath" your claimed Super Elite status. So you probably shouldn't be surprised if that sneering disdain was reflected.