DYKWIA | 2018 edition
#826
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: 7,311
I used to dress in shorts/jeans (depending on where I'm going) a hoody and a baseball cap. However I've smartened up a little bit recently as I've found being scruffy and casual in the CCR means people stare at you thinking you're famous. Which gets old really quickly.
#827
Join Date: Dec 2016
Programs: BAEC GGL/CR; Hilton Diamond; Mucci des Puccis
Posts: 5,520
Not really a DYKWIA, but more an encounter with one of the guardians to the CCR at LHR during my first, and only time, of having entitlement to use the CCR.
My itinerary was a same day return from LHR-AMS in Club Europe, followed by an onward flight from LHR to JFK in First later the same day.
Got to LHR in the morning prior to my AMS flight and approached the CCR via the airside route (not via the First Wing, which at the time didnt exist). Erroneously showed my CE boarding pass for the AMS flight, which was sternly dismissed by the attendant with an I am sorry sir, this lounge is reserved for our first class ticket holders; the lounge you can use is our Galleries Club lounge which is located over there [emphasis added on the over there].
How the attendant was then surprised when I pulled out the subsequent LHR-JFK boarding pass. Oh, they then said in a somewhat reconciliatory and more cheery manner, Please do come on in!
Just made me chuckle how the attendants demeanour changed from me showing them the wrong boarding pass to the right boarding pass! 😀 To be fair to the attendant as well, I was dressed in jeans, trainers, and a hoodie, which probably didnt help my credentials.
My itinerary was a same day return from LHR-AMS in Club Europe, followed by an onward flight from LHR to JFK in First later the same day.
Got to LHR in the morning prior to my AMS flight and approached the CCR via the airside route (not via the First Wing, which at the time didnt exist). Erroneously showed my CE boarding pass for the AMS flight, which was sternly dismissed by the attendant with an I am sorry sir, this lounge is reserved for our first class ticket holders; the lounge you can use is our Galleries Club lounge which is located over there [emphasis added on the over there].
How the attendant was then surprised when I pulled out the subsequent LHR-JFK boarding pass. Oh, they then said in a somewhat reconciliatory and more cheery manner, Please do come on in!
Just made me chuckle how the attendants demeanour changed from me showing them the wrong boarding pass to the right boarding pass! 😀 To be fair to the attendant as well, I was dressed in jeans, trainers, and a hoodie, which probably didnt help my credentials.
#828
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 540
I used to dress in shorts/jeans (depending on where I'm going) a hoody and a baseball cap. However I've smartened up a little bit recently as I've found being scruffy and casual in the CCR means people stare at you thinking you're famous. Which gets old really quickly.
#829
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: London
Programs: Mucci Blue, BAEC Gold, Blockbuster Video card
Posts: 1,378
Minor DYKWIA in T5. I was sitting in the waiting area of the First Wing yesterday afternoon. Two ladies walked into the area and one of the ground staff asked them if they would like to check in. 'No,' said one. 'I would just like to sit here and re-charge my mobile. I'm bronze, you see'. She was very put out when told that the First Wing was for First Class or gold exec card holders. 'But I'm bronze, and I should be allowed to do this'. Sadly for them, this cut no ice with the ground staff member who gently but firmly directed them elsewhere.
#830
Join Date: Feb 2015
Programs: Gold Actually
Posts: 271
I think you will find you were bronze at some stage as you cannot go from 295 points to 600 points in 1 flight. For at least 1 sector, you would have been bronze.......
#831
Join Date: Dec 2004
Programs: BA GGL, A3*G, Mucci de l'expertise des Apps
Posts: 3,362
2. Some people were stolen/status matched from other airlines and will never have been the lower tiers of BAEC.
#832
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: All over the place often South Wales and Lake District
Programs: BA Gold for Life
Posts: 4,547
As above - When I started, my tier points reset every time I went up a status, so had to achieve many more TPs to get Gold - Still got it in 4 months.
#834
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: London
Programs: Mucci Blue, BAEC Gold, Blockbuster Video card
Posts: 1,378
To top it all off I went straight to my office on landing.
Can't claim I was hugely productive though ;-)
#835
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: JER
Programs: BA Gold/OWE, several MUCCI, and assorted Pensions!
Posts: 32,124
Our last Hawaii trip generated 1,000 TPs thanks to creative routing
JER-LGW/LHR-DUB-CLT-LAX-OGG and return. Not for the faint-hearted, though!
Aloha again, to OGG with BA & AA in the good seats.
JER-LGW/LHR-DUB-CLT-LAX-OGG and return. Not for the faint-hearted, though!
Aloha again, to OGG with BA & AA in the good seats.
#837
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Vale of Glamorgan
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 2,963
There's a sudden rash of DYKWIA behaviour in the DYKWIA thread. They're only shiny cards, lads.
#839
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: LON
Programs: Mucci, BAEC, Eurostar
Posts: 3,261
Honestly the ones landside are a nightmare... I tend to get off at arrivals off the HEX to have one last smoke (much nicer than upstairs), but to get to departures after that is a nightmare! Half the time, the lift stops at the "Staff Only" floor only to go back down.