Gold member personal greeting
Dec 31, 2018, 11:02 am
#452
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 447
Got woken up on a short hop from Germany (in ET) today by a crew member who "just wanted to wish me a happy new year" with a glass of champagne.
The guy next to me then asked me what that was all about - apparently he was also a GCH and didn't receive anything. More inconsistencies!
The guy next to me then asked me what that was all about - apparently he was also a GCH and didn't receive anything. More inconsistencies!
Dec 31, 2018, 12:44 pm
#454
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: JER
Programs: BA Gold/OWE, several MUCCI, and assorted Pensions!
Posts: 32,146
To our surprise, addressed by name on our recent CPT-LGW and LGW-JER.
It must have been the sun-tan that did it, or iWife's 'aura' which seems to work everywhere!
It must have been the sun-tan that did it, or iWife's 'aura' which seems to work everywhere!
Dec 31, 2018, 1:11 pm
#456
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Brighton. UK
Programs: BA Gold / VS /IHG Diamond & Ambassador
Posts: 14,203
LGW - CGN nice chat with the CSD and offered first dibs on the meal choice ‘as we don’t have very many’- well there’s were onky 3 of us in CE so the other two had the the only ploughman’s and the remaining trio of sandwiches! They were together so I think they just had it as a large picnic!
DUS - LHR - just called sir. Whether that was because I was a very late booking (literally on the phone to Bremen before the flight closed) due to the drone I don’t know and the iPad not being updated. Only the cheese salad was left for me but a beef plate (not the other menu choice offered to others that day) magically appeared so maybe my gooldenness was realised!
DUS - LHR - just called sir. Whether that was because I was a very late booking (literally on the phone to Bremen before the flight closed) due to the drone I don’t know and the iPad not being updated. Only the cheese salad was left for me but a beef plate (not the other menu choice offered to others that day) magically appeared so maybe my gooldenness was realised!
Jan 1, 2019, 7:16 pm
#458
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: US/UK - and elsewhere
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 2,562
Oddly, after a deficit of greetings throughout 2018, on my first flight of 2019 (LHR-BWI) I got two, one while they were serving pre-flight drinks (WT+), and then from CSM/CSD (?) while taxiing. Both short and to the point, but nevertheless welcomed.
Jan 1, 2019, 11:34 pm
#459
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Cheltenham
Programs: KLM Plat for Life , BA Gold, HH Silver, (Other half Diamond), IHG Gold
Posts: 2,398
CSD LHR to JNB 23rd Dec came up stairs to greet us in Businesd . She recognised us from a flight in August when she served us in F . Did not see her for the rest of the flight .
Jan 11, 2019, 1:53 am
#460
Join Date: Dec 2018
Posts: 57
Got a nice personal greeting and offered a glass of Champagne from further up the bus while sitting in WT+ on the way back from New York last night.
Had to politely decline due to dry January....the Stewardess looked quite perplexed!!!
😕
Had to politely decline due to dry January....the Stewardess looked quite perplexed!!!
😕
Jan 11, 2019, 2:01 am
#461
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: London, UK
Programs: Virtuoso, FSPP, Hyatt Prive, Hilton Impressario, Marriott Stars/Luminous, Roswood Elite, MO Fan Club
Posts: 561
BA138 BOM-LHR on 9th Jan WT+
Received a ‘hello Mr.xx, here’s a bottle of water for you. Would you like some newspapers from Club World?’
Not sure if this qualifies as a Gold greeting.. but this is what I received...
Received a ‘hello Mr.xx, here’s a bottle of water for you. Would you like some newspapers from Club World?’
Not sure if this qualifies as a Gold greeting.. but this is what I received...
Jan 13, 2019, 1:14 am
#463
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Bedfordshire, UK
Programs: BA Gold, Geek platinum
Posts: 2,004
As an interesting point for comparison I recently flew LHR-PVG via HEL on finnair, as well as the service being consistently excellent in general I had a personal greeting from the pusor on each and every flight and on the log haul leg a geeeting and a further visit before landing (with connection information on the return leg). I think the thing that stood out was the consistency, with BA the greeting is a random event, with AY it appears to be a policy that is followed and treated seriously.
Jan 13, 2019, 1:44 am
#464
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: UK
Programs: BA Gold, AA 1MM lifetime gold, Starwood gold, Marriott Gold Elite
Posts: 719
As an interesting point for comparison I recently flew LHR-PVG via HEL on finnair, as well as the service being consistently excellent in general I had a personal greeting from the pusor on each and every flight and on the log haul leg a geeeting and a further visit before landing (with connection information on the return leg). I think the thing that stood out was the consistency, with BA the greeting is a random event, with AY it appears to be a policy that is followed and treated seriously.
Perhaps it's because there are so many more BAEC gold passengers on BA than there are AY platinum on AY or CX diamond on CX