airb330

In 2011, after a United flight from KOA, my husband and I are waiting to board a SFO-PHL a321 US Airways flight. We are ticketed in first, waiting in the proper boarding line with about 8 others. A woman pushes me aside, runs over my husband's foot (still in flip flops) with her large suitcase, and yells "I am in first." Needless to say, I am cranky from the redeye and wanted to let her know that *all* of us were also in first class and that in her rush she ran over my husband's foot. Her response, "his foot was in the way of my suitcase." I guess she really didn't believe we were all in first class, so I made sure to turn around and say hello to her in 3C. We still laugh about the miserable woman to this day.

wrp96

I too have more than once been told "Excuse me I'm in business class" as someone tried to cut in front of me "So am I!"

Had somebody try to push past me while boarding in EZE because as he announced to the entire gate area "I'm lifetime gold." I couldn't restrain myself from saying "Well I'm platinum."

AAChris

He literally PUSHED HIM DOWN, not just past.

rickg523

You were awfully nice about it. I find that admirable actually.
Some old coot does that to my kid, he's going to find out just how easy the elderly topple. Though it would appear to be inadvertent of course.

miadukes

Something similar happened on my LIM-MIA flight last week. Plane was late and everyone was at the gate lined up. I got there and lined up in the priority lane (first time in business so super pumped to board in first group) and the line gets longer behind me. So almost time to board and there is a guy behind me that keeps pacing to the front as if to inquire why he can't start boarding already ( I am not within earshot) but by his whole disposition he is just rushed and I think pissed that there are about 12 people in front of him in line (me being one of them). So they announce they are getting ready to board and call for group 1 and i start walking forward along with a few people in front of me( some had to wait, i guess they were 2-4) and this guy literally tries to run over the side of me ( I have my backpack and my rolling carry "on) and gives me this bewildered look when I shoot him a nasty look as he has now trampled almost over my carry on to "beat" me to the entrance (mind you we are moving slowly but obviously I am moving too) and he's like I'm group 1 so I shoot back to him, "So are we", he just stayed behind me after that. But I never understood most of the posts where people do this and well now that I have experienced it I was just (insert mouth drop emoji here). Later on mid flight, this same guy had some issue with this seat (slowed down initial towel and water service to our side) but three AA staff later and he sat down. Most annoying person I have ever encountered. Poor people around him as he was standing all over the hallway with about 3 AA employees trying to fix his seat. I assumed it didn't recline but figured this was Karma.

AAdamE

Prior to the current group boarding system when they would call like 1,000 status types before group 1, there was some confusion at DFW because two adjacent terminals were boarding at the same time and the PA for each was overlapping. While they were calling AAdvantage gold, about half of the terminal was boarding because the adjacent terminal was then boarding group 2. I was group 2 and was thinking there's no way this many people with gold status despite a hub to hub flight (DFW-ORD). Eventually most of the terminal caught on and just started to board before zone 1 was even called, and the gate agents seemed to not care. Apparently a guy a few people ahead of me was asked to size his bag in the sizer, it was questionable and before the gate agent could respond he whipped out his platinum card and was like "SEE THIS" "This means I FLY ALL OF THE TIME and this bag ALWAYS fits OK." At this point they called group 1 (and I had not yet had status so I was group 2), so I had to hang back and watch the drama unfold. Basically during the time of the scuffle all the bin space was gone and they announced that everyone needed to check their rollaboard. Including the "platinum pro." Surprisingly he was able to board the flight after yelling "Thank you so much for completely F*%$ing up the boarding process, I'm not never flying you again!" Never saw him again on that route but something tells me it was an empty threat

mvoight

Rain shower head .........

MADPhil

Someone who was used to countries where cabin class or status gets you in and you can't buy membership might be surprised if they hadn't done their homework.

AAdamE

I see the logic. It is surprising that paying a one time $300-500 fee or having the right credit card gets you in, but paying $1,000 more than a Y ticket does not.

thunderlounge

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These are the same type of people that know the right lane (left for those driving on the left side) ends and need to move over, but are “too good/important” to properly get in the correct lane in time. Thus they end up almost taking out someone at the last minute.

Me? Take out my front end and buy me a new ride.

PUCCI GALORE

You may Good Sir move this as it did not happen on AA (Well it didn't have 2 As just a B and an A)

We had a passenger from NRT change into his F pyjamas in the F lav. On emerging, he threw his underwear on the floor, pointed to them and said "Wash!". The Scottish girl working in F didn't miss a trick. She'd done too many charters down to the med. She picked them up with the tongs and threw them, and then the tongs in the trash. Approaching LHR he wanted them back. With many apologies she told him that they had got lost in the Laundry. He kicked off and so without blinking an eye, she decided to send for me (which was correct but totally unfair as I can't keep a straight face for too long). We "wrote" a report and kept this up until we knew that the belts sign would come on. She said that she quite understood, and if it would help he could have a clean pair of hers. Furious he got a fresh pair out of his carry-on and left us saying something that we hoped meant that he would never grace our aircraft again.

Just when you think that you've heard the lot, along comes someone else with a sense of entitlement and all the self-importance that this entails.

nrr

(1) On (3 class) TRANSCOMs flying in bc or f you can use the AC [even FL flying in f].
(2) At one time DL allowed CC access if flying in f.

mvoight

Alaska allows Board Room access for domestic FC it if not on an upgrade

george 3

At LAX, a very recognizable actor tried to push his way to board ahead of the first class pax. I did not yield, and was glared at as he chatted up an actress sitting across from me before take-off.

OTD

No reason not to name names! Or just go to the celebrity thread and say who you saw