Spongthrush

On a TP run last year, in F on LAX-JFK A321 - thanks to all on flyertalk for making this happen - the AA CSD equivalent came for a very detailed chat with my friend and I. She said that she usually googled her pax before a trip as there were usually some interesting connections. In our case, my friend had the same name as a 16th century Lord who was beheaded, so she acted the part during the whole trip, referring to him as Lord the whole way and curtseying before serving him. Although slightly weird, I guess that she could tell we were OK with the banter and had a long discussion about social media footprints etc. I do wonder what anyone peeking through the curtain from the back of the plane would have thought of the airborne theatre up front.

Mixbury

Full post here.

lorath

evanstim

Why? If the domain does exist but the email account does not (which it wouldn't), if they then try to send an email to the address all that will happen is that the STMP server would return a rejected email address response. There is no 'inflicting' on anyone, as the server owner would never even know (unless the server Administrator went looking through server logs, but why would they ever do that? With bots all over the internet randomly generating email addresses on domains to spam, there are likely to be literally thousands of rejected incoming emails on any domain in a single day)

Rejecting one email is hardly a taxing job for the server.

BertieBadger

Maybe not, although there may be a catchall. Ultimately though, we can only guess at how the owners of a domain will configure it and as such I would personally avoid a domain that belonged to someone else. But some may see that as unnecessarily cautious. Fair enough....


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LondonElite

Arctic Troll

...which is why I normally use [email protected] :lol:

As for names for the airport WiFi, I'm steadily making my way through the wikipedia list of serial killers.

gallagher

TPRun

Interestingly, someone from BA just linkedin viewed my profile: "Account Manager - British Airways Media" ... wonder what I did wrong!

Gomac

Funnily enough this morning I had a Corporate Account Manager from BA look at my LinkedIn profile!

aceman

This has given me the excellent idea of inventing a company, sticking myself on linkedin and giving myself the title of Budget Controller of Overseas Travel (budgetary responsibility approx Ł15m pa).

I smell prem in my future!

Fitch

I think you might have to shell out some cold, hard cash to swing that one

orbitmic

Internet/social media "look up" of customers seems increasingly frequent though not specifically on BA. Here are three examples from recent months, one of which involved a BA cabin crew, one an AA one and one an AF one, but I won't mention which is which to avoid anyone running into trouble.

- Cabin crew looking up to send me an email to thank me for a letter I wrote to the airline to highlight the quality of the service of two crew members and mention that some particular things that they did during the flight was, in my view, an outstanding example of best practice. Apparently message made it all the way to the top (not what I expected) and the two apparently received some fairly insistent praise internally, he apologised for looking my email up but said he wanted to thank me personally for the detailed and positive feedback (I actually bumped into the other one on another flight who was profuse with thanks and even had tears in her eyes!) - very nice.

- Cabin crew referring to my work and a recent 'milestone' of it and saying that when she found out, she wrote to her father in law who knows my work and is (she said) an admirer of it. Well intended but weird.

- Friend of mine getting a Facebook PM after a flight telling her that she is very pretty and would she like to meet up some time. Outright creepy.

rapidex

At what point did she try to behead your friend?

Calchas

This all strikes me as rather creepy. Part of the joy of travel is the anonymity.