BA First Class cabin - invite a friend from WT
Mar 12, 2018, 4:37 am
#16
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Mar 12, 2018, 4:46 am
#17
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I find generally just having a guest hovering around is annoying. To me First is about exclusivity and I would, after a short time, ask for the exclusivity to be maintained. A quick drink normally doesn't annoy me but guests staying too long can be annoying. On a flight to Hong Kong last year a cling on (crew companion) was moved to first during pushback, which didn't annoy me, but after take off one of the First Officer came to chat with her for about an hour in the buddy seat. It was just in my eye line of my IFE and the flirting and gesturing got a bit annoying to the point I asked the CSL if the First Class cabin was now a crew lounge. The FO then moved.
Mar 12, 2018, 4:47 am
#18
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If the service was good, meals happened as they are supposed to, and guest isn't loud, I DON'T see a reason to object, unless one is just jealous and think it somehow diminished their F experience, small people... can't be happy without making others unhappy - same as the quiet coaches on trains...
Mar 12, 2018, 5:07 am
#19
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I'm with nufnuf77 on this, I think if the guest is respectful, quiet and service isn't affected I'd have no problems with it. Ultimately, if you were in the same position as that person I'm 100% sure you'd consider doing it, even if just to show off your little part of heaven in the sky.
I know I would...
I've seen this happening where parents had booked themselves into F and put their kids down the back, and spent half of the flight ferrying free stuff backwards, and visiting each other noisily. I was a staff upgrade from Standby Y to J, so I didn't really see it from the view of a paying F/J pax, but I was still getting miffed by the noisy thoroughfare.
I know I would...
I've seen this happening where parents had booked themselves into F and put their kids down the back, and spent half of the flight ferrying free stuff backwards, and visiting each other noisily. I was a staff upgrade from Standby Y to J, so I didn't really see it from the view of a paying F/J pax, but I was still getting miffed by the noisy thoroughfare.
Mar 12, 2018, 5:21 am
#20
Join Date: Dec 2009
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If you want a OW "bar in the sky", fly Qatar.
If you want space and tranquility, fly BA.
Err, with 14 F in a 747 nose maybe that should just be "relative space, compared to others classes which are available * " and tranquility.
* Actually - although I have never been upstairs on an aircraft (F in MH's A380 is downstairs) - my wife has just been to and from Denver in 64A and 64K and now says she'd rather that than the usual F. Felt there was more space and tranquility there.
If you want space and tranquility, fly BA.
Err, with 14 F in a 747 nose maybe that should just be "relative space, compared to others classes which are available * " and tranquility.
* Actually - although I have never been upstairs on an aircraft (F in MH's A380 is downstairs) - my wife has just been to and from Denver in 64A and 64K and now says she'd rather that than the usual F. Felt there was more space and tranquility there.
Mar 12, 2018, 5:22 am
#21
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I had this on a trip to Atlanta. I was in 2A, the bloke in 1A was travelling with loads of colleagues to some insurance shindig, and had all his mates from CW join him at the front of the cabin for drinks and giggles. It was really disruptive, they were getting very drunk, being very "laddy" and being a general nuisance. It was liking watching a stag do. Complained (as did others in the cabin), they were turfed out, but then kept coming back, people kept complaining - repeat until landing.
The flipside is that bad experience has made me very self conscious in that regard. I was travelling to somewhere else in the US, colleague was in WT+, I was in First, and she joined me (with the crew's blessing) for a post-takeoff G&T and nuts, whispered talking, and she was gone back to her cabin after 20 minutes or so.
So to answer the OP, yes, I'd ask the crew if they'd mind a very quiet and brief visit, and be mindful that there may be people in the cabin who will be aggrieved that people from the cheap seats are in their domain
The flipside is that bad experience has made me very self conscious in that regard. I was travelling to somewhere else in the US, colleague was in WT+, I was in First, and she joined me (with the crew's blessing) for a post-takeoff G&T and nuts, whispered talking, and she was gone back to her cabin after 20 minutes or so.
So to answer the OP, yes, I'd ask the crew if they'd mind a very quiet and brief visit, and be mindful that there may be people in the cabin who will be aggrieved that people from the cheap seats are in their domain
Mar 12, 2018, 5:40 am
#22
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Mar 12, 2018, 6:43 am
#23
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I had this on a trip to Atlanta. I was in 2A, the bloke in 1A was travelling with loads of colleagues to some insurance shindig, and had all his mates from CW join him at the front of the cabin for drinks and giggles. It was really disruptive, they were getting very drunk, being very "laddy" and being a general nuisance. It was liking watching a stag do. Complained (as did others in the cabin), they were turfed out, but then kept coming back, people kept complaining - repeat until landing.
The flipside is that bad experience has made me very self conscious in that regard. I was travelling to somewhere else in the US, colleague was in WT+, I was in First, and she joined me (with the crew's blessing) for a post-takeoff G&T and nuts, whispered talking, and she was gone back to her cabin after 20 minutes or so.
So to answer the OP, yes, I'd ask the crew if they'd mind a very quiet and brief visit, and be mindful that there may be people in the cabin who will be aggrieved that people from the cheap seats are in their domain
The flipside is that bad experience has made me very self conscious in that regard. I was travelling to somewhere else in the US, colleague was in WT+, I was in First, and she joined me (with the crew's blessing) for a post-takeoff G&T and nuts, whispered talking, and she was gone back to her cabin after 20 minutes or so.
So to answer the OP, yes, I'd ask the crew if they'd mind a very quiet and brief visit, and be mindful that there may be people in the cabin who will be aggrieved that people from the cheap seats are in their domain
Mar 12, 2018, 8:21 am
#24
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I will allow visits at times that I feel are appropriate, the visitor and the customer travelling in First will be told how long the visitor can stay where they can sit and what they can be served.
Mar 12, 2018, 8:27 am
#26
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I'm just genuinely curious, thanks
