DYKWIA - The 2014 thread
Sep 28, 2014, 5:40 am
#706
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: UK
Programs: I go wherever the content takes me.
Posts: 5,698
All the time. Very frustrating if you're not au fait with the smoke and mirrors.
Sep 28, 2014, 6:16 am
#707
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: UK
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 655
There often is no way to tell until you get to the gate.
Sep 28, 2014, 6:34 am
#708
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: UK
Programs: I go wherever the content takes me.
Posts: 5,698
Indeed. I am paranoid about missing flights so I go as soon as it flashes up in the lounge. I've learned to accept that 9/10 times it'll mean a further wait. Still not great.
Sep 28, 2014, 6:36 am
#709
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Atlanta, GA / San Francisco, CA
Programs: BA Gold, TK Elite Plus
Posts: 1,150
Before when they still used the buses, I used to leave the lounge when it says "Gate Closing". That way usually I arrived to the 24's around the same time the first bus arrived.
Sep 29, 2014, 9:07 am
#710
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: BHX
Programs: BA GGL CCR GfL, SQ Gold, Hyatt Glob, HH Diamond, Marriott Plat, Cafe Nero Loyalty Card (7 Stamps)
Posts: 7,330
^ Club Europe.
Sep 29, 2014, 2:40 pm
#711
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: usually LON
Programs: BA Gold (OWE), Tesco Blue, TK Elite (*G), Oyster Diamond Jubilee edition
Posts: 1,546
I got a fair compensation from BA for complaining about this very issue in T3. "Boarding" came up in the lounge. Went to gate, into the holding pen, then "30 minute delay". Told the chap I'd go back to the lounge and wait "No we've scanned you in now so you'll wait here." 30 minutes sat on the floor as the waiting area was packed.
^ Club Europe.
^ Club Europe.
Once I was watching the board every 5 minutes only to see blinking red "flight closing" as first notice. Lovely.
Sep 29, 2014, 4:56 pm
#712
Suspended
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: UK
Programs: Marriott Platinum and BAEC blue again :'(
Posts: 376
I have a minor DYKWIA from today. I was sitting across the aisle from a couple who kept on comparing BA to EK or SQ at the top of their voices.
Every other utterance seemed to be "Emirates does _____ so much better," "Why don't BA copy SQ with _____," (I picked him up on his bad speech here
) "Emirates is far superior when it comes to ______"
The conversation did change but only to...
"I'm literally paid to fly Emirates first to work every month," (and here...) or "My boss thinks I'm practically indispensable so he doesn't mind paying for my air travel," and "yes, honey we a lucky to be able to afford to fly the best."
Their faces when I received better service compared to them made my day.
Every other utterance seemed to be "Emirates does _____ so much better," "Why don't BA copy SQ with _____," (I picked him up on his bad speech here
) "Emirates is far superior when it comes to ______"The conversation did change but only to...
"I'm literally paid to fly Emirates first to work every month," (and here...) or "My boss thinks I'm practically indispensable so he doesn't mind paying for my air travel," and "yes, honey we a lucky to be able to afford to fly the best."
Their faces when I received better service compared to them made my day.
Sep 29, 2014, 11:10 pm
#713
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: UK
Programs: I go wherever the content takes me.
Posts: 5,698
Sep 29, 2014, 11:50 pm
#715
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: MAN DXB ✈️
Programs: Skywards Gold
Posts: 6,831
I have a minor DYKWIA from today. I was sitting across the aisle from a couple who kept on comparing BA to EK or SQ at the top of their voices.
Every other utterance seemed to be "Emirates does _____ so much better," "Why don't BA copy SQ with _____," (I picked him up on his bad speech here) "Emirates is far superior when it comes to ______"
The conversation did change but only to...
"I'm literally paid to fly Emirates first to work every month," (and here...) or "My boss thinks I'm practically indispensable so he doesn't mind paying for my air travel," and "yes, honey we a lucky to be able to afford to fly the best."
Their faces when I received better service compared to them made my day.
Every other utterance seemed to be "Emirates does _____ so much better," "Why don't BA copy SQ with _____," (I picked him up on his bad speech here
) "Emirates is far superior when it comes to ______"The conversation did change but only to...
"I'm literally paid to fly Emirates first to work every month," (and here...) or "My boss thinks I'm practically indispensable so he doesn't mind paying for my air travel," and "yes, honey we a lucky to be able to afford to fly the best."
Their faces when I received better service compared to them made my day.
Sep 30, 2014, 2:43 am
#716
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Cambridge, UK
Programs: BAEC Silver, IHG Platinum
Posts: 1,368
I got a fair compensation from BA for complaining about this very issue in T3. "Boarding" came up in the lounge. Went to gate, into the holding pen, then "30 minute delay". Told the chap I'd go back to the lounge and wait "No we've scanned you in now so you'll wait here." 30 minutes sat on the floor as the waiting area was packed.
^ Club Europe.
^ Club Europe.
I agree. I hate the T3 pens, especially when they are combined with a bus transfer.
Sep 30, 2014, 3:03 am
#717
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: London
Programs: Hilton, IHG - BA, GA, LH, QR, SV, TK
Posts: 17,008
Sep 30, 2014, 3:20 am
#718
Ambassador, British Airways Executive Club, easyJet and Ryanair
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: UK/Las Vegas
Programs: BA Gold (GGL/CCR)
Posts: 15,928
All fun and friendly, nothing wrong with that.
Sep 30, 2014, 4:11 am
#719
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Glasgow / London
Programs: BA GGL
Posts: 3,457
Agreed! Sometimes it's nice to see a pompous twat brought back down to earth with a firm bump 
Sep 30, 2014, 4:20 am
#720
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Hampshire/Phoenix
Programs: BAEC Silver
Posts: 346
Being retired my OH thinks I spend too long on here, ok I do, and as I was reading this thread there were a few mentions of F pj's, now I will never earn these in F so if any person has a stash I would be grateful to take a pair off your hands. I have a yearning to do DYKWIA. I will be in either GC or CX lounge in T3 on 31/10/14 between 9am -11am, flight to WAW at 11.30am. We are going to try CX as had read GC to be manic, but could try both.