BA First Class cabin - invite a friend from WT
Mar 12, 2018, 12:42 pm
#31
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Mar 12, 2018, 12:50 pm
#32
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I imagine if we turned this around then the thread would be very different or probably wouldn’t exist but could you not visit your friend down the back?! It’s really not that bad at the back of the plane!
Mar 12, 2018, 12:54 pm
#33
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It's completely harmless for someone to have a family member drop to quietly say hello, maybe give them a very brief tour if they've never been up front. However, I don't think it should be allowed, because as we know from all these stories, you don't find out whether someone's really considerate until they get up there, at which point it falls to the other passengers to essentially police the cabin by deciding whether to complain to the crew.
I would prefer if when asked, the CC offered to give the F pax an extra glass of bubbly to take back to their companion as a present. That way they're getting to share the experience a little bit, but without running the risk of disturbing other F passengers.
I would prefer if when asked, the CC offered to give the F pax an extra glass of bubbly to take back to their companion as a present. That way they're getting to share the experience a little bit, but without running the risk of disturbing other F passengers.
Mar 12, 2018, 12:58 pm
#34
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So did I, but was hindered by Mr 1C was super annoying.
Im a Gold Snob!
Mar 12, 2018, 1:10 pm
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Reminds me of our LHR-SAN 744 flight a year ago when where an adult daughter in Business or Economy started regular visits with mom and BA Gold dad in 1AK. We were in 2AK.
I had my Bose NC headsets on so I didn't hear much and opened my closet door to improvise a door to at least cut off the view, so I was able to pretty much ignore them.
Mrs. SFO777 had the same idea and I propped her closet door open with her bag to give her some privacy. Although unbeknownced to me, she'd had enough at one point when the rest of the cabin was sleeping that she took it upon herself to tell them to STFU or something similar. LOL. That seemed to work as the daughter went back to her seat never to be seen again and 1AK were quiet the rest of the way, apologizing profusely on numerous occasions.
I had my Bose NC headsets on so I didn't hear much and opened my closet door to improvise a door to at least cut off the view, so I was able to pretty much ignore them.
Mrs. SFO777 had the same idea and I propped her closet door open with her bag to give her some privacy. Although unbeknownced to me, she'd had enough at one point when the rest of the cabin was sleeping that she took it upon herself to tell them to STFU or something similar. LOL. That seemed to work as the daughter went back to her seat never to be seen again and 1AK were quiet the rest of the way, apologizing profusely on numerous occasions.
Last edited by SFO777; Mar 12, 2018 at 1:46 pm
Mar 12, 2018, 1:51 pm
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Mar 12, 2018, 2:03 pm
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Reminds me of our LHR-SAN 744 flight a year ago when where an adult daughter in Business or Economy started regular visits with mom and BA Gold dad in 1AK. We were in 2AK.
I had my Bose NC headsets on so I didn't hear much and opened my closet door to improvise a door to at least cut off the view, so I was able to pretty much ignore
I had my Bose NC headsets on so I didn't hear much and opened my closet door to improvise a door to at least cut off the view, so I was able to pretty much ignore
Just out out of curiosity, how did you know that the Father was BA Gold. Did he tell you?
Mar 12, 2018, 2:12 pm
#41
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Indeed. Is there any other context in which a person's purchase of a premium ticket would create an expectation that friends/colleagues/relatives are entitled to share the premium experience for free? I'm pretty certain that if I asked a train conductor if I could visit a mate travelling first class and partake of whatever goodies go with such a fare when I had only a standard ticket I would be told my options were a. pay the first class fare or b. b****r off!
Mar 12, 2018, 2:16 pm
#42
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Indeed. Is there any other context in which a person's purchase of a premium ticket would create an expectation that friends/colleagues/relatives are entitled to share the premium experience for free? I'm pretty certain that if I asked a train conductor if I could visit a mate travelling first class and partake of whatever goodies go with such a fare when I had only a standard ticket I would be told my options were a. pay the first class fare or b. b****r off!
Mar 12, 2018, 2:43 pm
#43
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I am and always was of a view that for the sake of the other passengers, it was best to say “No”. I cannot understand why parents travel in a different cabin to their children. If you’re family, you travel as family. I’d no more leave a child of mine in Economy and sit in front than I’d fly the aircraft myself.
Just out out of curiosity, how did you know that the Father was BA Gold. Did he tell you?
I was travelling in an EK F suite on a night flight, two children, about 9 or ten, whose mother was constantly coming from the J cabin to check up on them. Of course, the children were chatting well on into the night and even when they slept, the mum continued her checks. Yes, there are doors on the suites, however, the mum stood and peered over the walls to see and chat to the children which meant that I could see and hear her. I didn't want to say anything to CC just due to the fact that it was children being checked up on by their mother. As you say, why on earth didn't they just travel together?
Last edited by offtothehills; Mar 12, 2018 at 2:51 pm
Mar 12, 2018, 2:55 pm
#45
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True of First, but of course not business class, I suppose. However my point was primarily directed at contrasting expectations surrounding air travel with anything and everything else. No one would expect their possession of an expensive theatre ticket to entitle them to invite friends in the cheap seats to join them for the show, or would expect a first class rail fare to bestow first class travel on friends with standard class tickets, or would expect a theme park to allow their mates to join them on the premium rides if those mates didn't have a pass that covered these, and so on. Yet as soon as it's air travel we get threads asking 'can the rest of the rugby team/my relatives/colleagues use priority check-in/go through premium security/enter the lounge/have priority boarding/join me for drinks and a meal in First Class given that I have a ticket/status that entitles me to such things'. Sometimes the answer is yes, because the airline provides that benefit; sometimes it is no; and sometimes, as in the case of this thread, it is 'maybe': however there seems to be something about air travel that makes people think their friends/relatives/colleagues should automatically get whatever perks their own status or ticket bestows, when in no other context would they expect the same.