DYKWIA | 2018 edition
Jul 11, 2018, 6:23 am
#451
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Berks
Programs: BA, A3, Hilton, IHG
Posts: 215
Boarding a flight somewhere in Europe a while ago. Announcement for priority boarding for Gold, Silver and Bronze. Excitable 4 year old boy pipes up “Not you daddy, you’re Gold Guest List and they didn’t say that”.
A case of DYWMDI (Don’t you know why my dad is)!
A case of DYWMDI (Don’t you know why my dad is)!
Jul 11, 2018, 9:52 am
#452
Suspended
Join Date: Nov 2015
Posts: 1,808
Sometimes f amateurs are dykwia's.
I was standing in the f line for an AS flight San to Abq...guy subverts the clearly marked and stanchioned f line and asks the ga if f was boarding yet. She said no, and he just stands there waiting..then gets directed to the back of the line.
Once on board the erj he realized his choice of 1a was terrible. No bin, no underseat, bulkhead. He asks the fa if there is another open seat he could move to. I was in 2c, and 2d was open. Fa points him at my row.
He looks at me and says "but I want a row to myself!" . Then he makes eye contact as if to say "swap?"...but I was too busy chuckling.
Then he bragged to the fa that he flies this route all the time..she responds with "me too..I must have missed you each time" lol
I was standing in the f line for an AS flight San to Abq...guy subverts the clearly marked and stanchioned f line and asks the ga if f was boarding yet. She said no, and he just stands there waiting..then gets directed to the back of the line.
Once on board the erj he realized his choice of 1a was terrible. No bin, no underseat, bulkhead. He asks the fa if there is another open seat he could move to. I was in 2c, and 2d was open. Fa points him at my row.
He looks at me and says "but I want a row to myself!" . Then he makes eye contact as if to say "swap?"...but I was too busy chuckling.
Then he bragged to the fa that he flies this route all the time..she responds with "me too..I must have missed you each time" lol
Last edited by Proudelitist; Jul 11, 2018 at 2:44 pm
Jul 11, 2018, 12:56 pm
#453
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Nashville,TN
Programs: AA Gold Elite
Posts: 601
Okay I'll bite!
For newyorklondon, are the initials of the VERY,VERY, VERY well known person BJ, or I guess currently CJ?
Just curious.
For newyorklondon, are the initials of the VERY,VERY, VERY well known person BJ, or I guess currently CJ?
Just curious.
Jul 11, 2018, 2:00 pm
#454
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Effectively grounded
Programs: BA GGL for a little while longer
Posts: 844
Please say it's CJ 
Jul 11, 2018, 2:11 pm
#455
Join Date: Mar 2016
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 681
My kids do this and I bloody hate it. I mind less when they call out queue jumpers who assume kids won’t be travelling F.
Jul 13, 2018, 7:13 am
#457
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: NYC
Programs: AA EXP
Posts: 1,372
Mistaken gender address ("Hello Mr..." to a transitioned American woman) at check-in (JNB-CPT) led to a double DWKWIA ruckus last week.
It all went rapidly downhill after the initial greeting. From the snippets I overheard, standing behind her, pax's US passport had an updated photo, but the gender marker had not yet been updated via the Gender Designation Change process.
It was a double DYKWIA because:
1) She's very, very, VERY well known back home apparently, and this kind of behaviour just WOULDN'T FLY (no pun intended!) in the US.
2) Don't You Know What I Am?
I felt a bit conflicted, to be honest; she was not behaving well at all, but clearly this was a very sore point for her.
It all went rapidly downhill after the initial greeting. From the snippets I overheard, standing behind her, pax's US passport had an updated photo, but the gender marker had not yet been updated via the Gender Designation Change process.
It was a double DYKWIA because:
1) She's very, very, VERY well known back home apparently, and this kind of behaviour just WOULDN'T FLY (no pun intended!) in the US.
2) Don't You Know What I Am?
I felt a bit conflicted, to be honest; she was not behaving well at all, but clearly this was a very sore point for her.
Jul 13, 2018, 9:19 am
#458
Join Date: Jun 2016
Posts: 581
Why only initials ? What's wrong with calling them out with their names ?
Jul 13, 2018, 11:32 am
#459
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: LGW.
Programs: Cunard WorldClub-Gold,Silverseas Venetian society,Alitalia Mille miglia,SPG,Fairmont,IHG.
Posts: 733
Jul 13, 2018, 11:37 am
#460
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: LGW.
Programs: Cunard WorldClub-Gold,Silverseas Venetian society,Alitalia Mille miglia,SPG,Fairmont,IHG.
Posts: 733
My better half is a retired B744 skipper with BA. When he was operating a flight we were travelling on and did the welcome aboard PA, the kids used to pipe up "That's not the Captain,that's daddy!" Always made people in earshot laugh..
Jul 13, 2018, 11:44 am
#461
Join Date: May 2012
Location: London, UK
Programs: BA Gold, Hotels.com Gold
Posts: 390
The most high-profile American transgender women I can think of are Caitlyn Jenner and Laverne Cox. I was guessing one of them and they fit the initials, which means for once the people I've heard of are actually the people others have heard of too!
Edit: also the Wachowski sisters.
Edit: also the Wachowski sisters.
Jul 13, 2018, 12:08 pm
#462
Join Date: Jun 2018
Programs: BA Gold; Surrey CCC
Posts: 97
On yesterday's Mumbai to London flight, where there was a large crowd by the boarding area. Group 1's and First passengers had formed their own queue by the side, and the BA staffers knew that we were all G1 (or F). A gentleman in his mid-60s came along and in a rather imperious tone, said "make way, I'm in First Class, make way please". Well, so were the rest of us and he was promptly dispatched to the back of the G1 queue by the staffer. Chuntered for a while before we boarded.
Jul 14, 2018, 1:12 am
#463
Join Date: Jun 2014
Posts: 756
The most high-profile American transgender women I can think of are Caitlyn Jenner and Laverne Cox. I was guessing one of them and they fit the initials, which means for once the people I've heard of are actually the people others have heard of too!
Edit: also the Wachowski sisters.
Edit: also the Wachowski sisters.
Jul 18, 2018, 2:18 am
#464
Join Date: Jul 2017
Location: CGK
Posts: 2,375
I confess to my DWKIA sins today .
On MH, last night when boarding in KUL, there was a lot of people standing near the boarding machines when priority boarding was announced. Everyone approached the boarding doors, andquite a bit a lot of them were turned back. Whilst waving my passport and (the boarding pass slid in it) in the air, I literally said "Business Class" slightly louder than I have intended..... got a lot of evil looks but was first on the plane nevertheless...
it wasn't until 10 minutes after I boarded would everyone else started boarding...
.On MH, last night when boarding in KUL, there was a lot of people standing near the boarding machines when priority boarding was announced. Everyone approached the boarding doors, and
it wasn't until 10 minutes after I boarded would everyone else started boarding...
Jul 18, 2018, 2:59 am
#465
Moderator, Emirates
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Where My Heart Is
Programs: BAEC Silver, FB Platinum, KQ Asante Gold, Shebamiles Blue, Emirates Blue
Posts: 3,386
Witnessed my first slightly DYWKIA moment at the gate in DME yesterday. After a long, fraughtful day, finally standing in the priority queue waiting for boardind to start, two queues had been formed with groups 1 & 2. Two middle aged blokes walked up and tried to push by everyone to get to the front and we’re promptly stopped by a middle aged lady, pointing out to both where the end of the priority queue was. Bloke 1 loudly exclaims that they are group 1 and said lady points out that she is also. Second bloke pipes up that most people in the queue weren’t probably priority boarding anyway when I pipe in that the gate agent has went along the length of the queue and appropriately directed those without priority boarding (group 1 & 2) to the general boarding holding area. His mouth firmly clamped shut. Yesterday was not a good day and could well have been reading about myself on here had they decided to take their conversation further.
Six or seven of us had a bit of blitz mentality yesterday after our original flight was cancelled 12 hours previously and spent hours rearranging things to get the last flight of the day but kept each other’s spirits up during the delay and despite the complaining amongst ourselves, held it together and continued our camaraderie until we got to LHR but these two self entitled eejits could have quite easily been the straw that broke the camels back.
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Six or seven of us had a bit of blitz mentality yesterday after our original flight was cancelled 12 hours previously and spent hours rearranging things to get the last flight of the day but kept each other’s spirits up during the delay and despite the complaining amongst ourselves, held it together and continued our camaraderie until we got to LHR but these two self entitled eejits could have quite easily been the straw that broke the camels back.
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