BA First Class cabin - invite a friend from WT
Mar 12, 2018, 6:29 pm
#61
Join Date: Sep 2013
Programs: BAEC Gold, EK Skywards (enhanced Blue !), Oman Air Sindbad Gold
Posts: 6,399
It’s very apparent from the various incidents documented here - and there will be many, many more of course - that F pax bringing ‘guests’ (can we really describe them as such ...??) can create problems for other fare-paying FC travellers.
OTOH, there is no ‘problem’, in truth, if a F pax is denied this opportunity.
Best just ban it totally ; and thus avoid any difficult issues from the start.
OTOH, there is no ‘problem’, in truth, if a F pax is denied this opportunity.
Best just ban it totally ; and thus avoid any difficult issues from the start.
Mar 13, 2018, 3:11 am
#62
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: London / Brighton
Programs: BAEC Gold / M-Life Gold / HH Diamond
Posts: 1,635
The difference being, 787 excepted, that the F pax will have a buddy seat, the Y/W/J pax may not have any empty seats near them at all. It’s all about the respect those passengers show for those around them. Of course there will be plenty of F passengers who are loud and annoying too and you can’t do too much about them!
personally, I found another F pax really annoying on my last flight because he spent half the flight walking a circuit around the cabin, I was in 1A and so every few minutes he was drawing the curtain. First world problem of the highest order... he wasn't just going through the curtain, he was pulling it aside (and leaving it open), instead of going through the middle bit where the curtain overlaps.
Mar 13, 2018, 4:54 am
#64
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: ±38,000 feet
Programs: LH HON, BA GGL, AF Plat, EK Plat
Posts: 6,428
On that particular occassion there were only 2 of us in F, and the other person flying was an FT'er @PhilH. If it was much more crowded I would restrict it to 1.
Mar 13, 2018, 5:07 am
#65
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: Bradford, England
Programs: BA GGL/CCR , HH Diamond
Posts: 274
Mar 13, 2018, 5:14 am
#66
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: JER
Programs: BA Gold/OWE, several MUCCI, and assorted Pensions!
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Some of you may recall our experience on our first (and only!) First to UVF, when the Nanny relocated from J to F for the entire journey. The following from the TR ...
.... And then it was time to review our fellow pax. Which was not a cheering prospect. A family group consisting of: 1K, younger male, 1F older male, 4K, female with lap infant, 4F, toddler. We are surrounded, although at least 2F is empty. And then it isn’t, as Nanny is brought forward from CW to occupy the vacant seat and look after Infant whilst Mummy has lunch. Cool. Nanny gets her meal brought forward from CW. Mummy joins Nanny on the footstool in 2F to feed infant. Daddy comes and talks to Wife and Infant. Wife goes and talks to Toddler. Daddy returns to seat, Toddler comes and talks to Infant. Mummy rejoins Nanny …. and this cycle of activity goes on constantly for the entire 9 hour journey. It was particularly annoying for iWife in 2K, as she is continually being presented with people’s bums by her left ear. AAAARRRGGGGHHHH.
Mar 13, 2018, 6:16 am
#67
Join Date: May 2007
Programs: BA GFL. AA EXP. Amex Plat. Mucci.
Posts: 187
I am a regular paid F flyer and I actually find that the biggest annoyance is NOT other passengers inviting guests, but on-duty and off-duty BA crew congregating in F to chat and mingle during a flight (especially true when an off-duty captain is taking a positioning flight on an otherwise normal flight). What I hate most is BA crew that put their personal belongings in the F overhead bins (especially above seat 1K on the 777) and then proceed to noisily open and close the bins mid-flight (sometimes waking up passengers in the middle of the night). The fact that BA personnel think it's OK to do this makes me think that there is no hope in even asking the CSM to intervene.