Flying with colleagues - what would you do?
Jul 30, 2016, 6:27 am
#31
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I think in this day and age people aren't that bothered really especially as the OP wrote
So they obviously know the lay of the land re lounges and guesting etc. If the OP does more travel than colleagues then they may already know he's Gold so entitled to different things.
So they obviously know the lay of the land re lounges and guesting etc. If the OP does more travel than colleagues then they may already know he's Gold so entitled to different things.
My family know I'm the only one with a GC (different airline) so am also 'entitled', but it doesn't make it compulsory for me to use it and if travelling as a party I generally don't.
Jul 30, 2016, 7:09 am
#32
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I had a similar problem this week flying on EK, I was by far the junior on the trip and got moved into F. Slightly awkward when both walk past on way past to J...
Jul 30, 2016, 8:11 am
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Potential awkwardness is predicated on the colleagues giving a hoot about the OP's whereabouts.
Who knows? They might just possibly have been able to take his absence in their stride.
If OP prefers whatever margin of comfort he can wring from GF over his colleagues' company then he should stay there.
Who knows? They might just possibly have been able to take his absence in their stride.
If OP prefers whatever margin of comfort he can wring from GF over his colleagues' company then he should stay there.
Jul 30, 2016, 8:18 am
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Of course. That's one of the scenarios. You could go a stage further, they might actually have been delighted, in which case it would have been a win/win all round.
Jul 30, 2016, 8:46 am
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Jul 30, 2016, 9:36 am
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Of course not but if you were in the same situation as the OP and arrived at LHR before your family would you avail yoursef of GF before they arrived or would you go straight to GC right from the start?