Acceptable amount to steal from the Galleries Lounge
Jun 14, 2015, 9:38 am
#151
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I have never taken anything from a lounge mostly because I travel with whatever I need from home. Sometimes, I might take water with me because well they make you throw that away at security check and I can get thirsty. In the same light, I don't think its morally wrong for someone to grab a can or two of coke or an apple for the munchies. I think we all know when its using a service and we also realize when its misusing.
Jun 15, 2015, 3:45 am
#153
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I guess the tongue-in-cheek shade of that bit of my post didn't come through so well. But imagine if BA were to start cost cutting by asking for consumables back...salt, butter, or gasp, ice from F to be reused in CW drinks. ;-)
Jun 15, 2015, 4:30 am
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Jun 15, 2015, 12:09 pm
#155
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In the same way the change from individual sachets to the single jar of Marmite has been 100% effective. It's hard enough to get it onto your toast never mind taking it with you.
Jun 15, 2015, 12:51 pm
#156
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So, the end result is that the Service area is clogged up with people trying to spread <whatever> on their [cold] toast after applying some butter [substitute]?
And a professional Catering Company devised that idea?
Jun 15, 2015, 12:54 pm
#157
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Jun 15, 2015, 1:00 pm
#158
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As far as I am concerned, to "steal" (wilfully depriving the owner permanently of their property) is wrong, end of. As far as airline lounges are concerned, I think most would agree on a sensible interpretation:
Any guest who is departing on an onward flight is, as far as I am concerned, welcome to take a few consumable items along (a) to stop you feeling hungry if the catering on your flight isn't up to snuff or (b) as a little emergency back up if you wake up needing a "Scooby Snack" during your first night away in a hotel/apartment and the shops and room service are all closed.
Personally, I would think a bag or two of crisps, shortbread biccies, a tin or two of Sprite/Fanta/Coke is fine as long as they are for your personal consumption. Similarly, snaffling a bacon roll to munch on the way to the gate for an early departure isn't a major problem. I cannot see any justification, however, in lifting anything alcoholic.
At the end of the day, you are a "guest" and, as such, welcome to our hospitality as long as you don't take the mickey! The mickey-takers just spoil it for everyone else as, if too much goes walkies, there is less money in the budget for next month's guests!
Any guest who is departing on an onward flight is, as far as I am concerned, welcome to take a few consumable items along (a) to stop you feeling hungry if the catering on your flight isn't up to snuff or (b) as a little emergency back up if you wake up needing a "Scooby Snack" during your first night away in a hotel/apartment and the shops and room service are all closed.
Personally, I would think a bag or two of crisps, shortbread biccies, a tin or two of Sprite/Fanta/Coke is fine as long as they are for your personal consumption. Similarly, snaffling a bacon roll to munch on the way to the gate for an early departure isn't a major problem. I cannot see any justification, however, in lifting anything alcoholic.
At the end of the day, you are a "guest" and, as such, welcome to our hospitality as long as you don't take the mickey! The mickey-takers just spoil it for everyone else as, if too much goes walkies, there is less money in the budget for next month's guests!
Jun 15, 2015, 5:07 pm
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The Flounge in BOS doesn't even warm the bread. It just entertains you with a ticking noise while you stand there forever in cramped quarters blocking access to the adjacent coffee machine. I'd be surprised if people hadn't missed flights because of this.
Dec 30, 2015, 3:01 am
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Another funny incident;
was in LHR T5GC on Saturday and there was an elegant (?) & obviously well-off British extended family heading for ski holiday in Switzerland - a party of 10 (gramma; grpapa; 2xwifes; 2xhusbands; 4xkids). Wearing Prada & LV and so on - so unless those were fake they looked quite well-off.
They were having pre-flight drinks. During the tenure the 2 husbands (sons of GM/GP) started loading their bags with some 20-25 cans of tonic water. They were about to buy 2 liters of taxfree gin in duty free for apres-ski drinks.
Would have loved to see the lounge personnel offload those tonic cans. Instead kept my mouth shut and moved on.
...(wish I would have had the courage to say something)...
was in LHR T5GC on Saturday and there was an elegant (?) & obviously well-off British extended family heading for ski holiday in Switzerland - a party of 10 (gramma; grpapa; 2xwifes; 2xhusbands; 4xkids). Wearing Prada & LV and so on - so unless those were fake they looked quite well-off.
They were having pre-flight drinks. During the tenure the 2 husbands (sons of GM/GP) started loading their bags with some 20-25 cans of tonic water. They were about to buy 2 liters of taxfree gin in duty free for apres-ski drinks.
Would have loved to see the lounge personnel offload those tonic cans. Instead kept my mouth shut and moved on.
...(wish I would have had the courage to say something)...
Dec 30, 2015, 3:09 am
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For SH flights, and depending on the time of day, I will take a can of Fever Tree tonic water from GF on board with me, and use it in place of the Schweppes offering on the aircraft. The CC do sometimes look at me strangely when I only ask for Gin.....
But as for filling up your carry-on with 25 cans (which I would guess is approaching £15 from a supermarket) , have people no shame?
But as for filling up your carry-on with 25 cans (which I would guess is approaching £15 from a supermarket) , have people no shame?
Dec 30, 2015, 3:53 am
#162
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For SH flights, and depending on the time of day, I will take a can of Fever Tree tonic water from GF on board with me, and use it in place of the Schweppes offering on the aircraft. The CC do sometimes look at me strangely when I only ask for Gin.....
But as for filling up your carry-on with 25 cans (which I would guess is approaching £15 from a supermarket) , have people no shame?
But as for filling up your carry-on with 25 cans (which I would guess is approaching £15 from a supermarket) , have people no shame?
Dec 30, 2015, 4:36 am
#163
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take as much as you want. It's not stealing until the value exceeds the amount of money you've spent on YQ on reward tickets.
Dec 30, 2015, 4:50 am
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Dec 30, 2015, 5:43 am
#165
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Which shows, yet again, that having money does not necessarily mean having class.....