You Know You’re a Frequent Flyer When.....
Apr 28, 2018, 9:47 am
#107
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: FLR
Programs: BA Gold, LH Sen, FB Gold
Posts: 504
When you arrive at immigration and the officer asks you where you come from and it takes you what seems an eternity to remember! Happened to me at LCY on Friday. Officer laughed when I told him that I had been on three trips that past week! When I lived in NL, where there is only one customs exit at AMS and you get asked quote often where you come from, I made it a habit of reminding myself of where I was coming from while walking through the baggage hall
Apr 28, 2018, 10:25 am
#108
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 3,926
I lose my car there too and I don’t fly every week! It’s age catching up with me; are you sure it’s frequent flyer syndrome for you?
Apr 28, 2018, 10:37 am
#109
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: New York, NY
Programs: BAEC Gold, Delta Platinum, Hilton Diamond, Marriott Gold, AMEX Platinum (US)
Posts: 18,487
I had a similar situation flying AA a while ago. A family with two young kids started to make themselves comfortable in the exit row getting toys and all sorts of paraphernalia ready for the 2hr flight. I hesitate a little but lean forward and in a gentle tone tell him that he shouldn't make himself too comfortable because the children are too young for the exit row and will need to be reseated, thinking I'm doing him a favour so he doesn't have to repack everything. He shrugs me off saying he's an AA Platinum flyer and they always allow him to sit in the exit rows...I tell him "fair enough" and let the skepticism in my facial expression do the talking. As he turns around the flight attendant is standing there and informs him the children are too young and he'll need to be reseated....10 rows aft he and the family go!
Apr 28, 2018, 11:43 am
#110
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: JER
Programs: BA Gold/OWE, several MUCCI, and assorted Pensions!
Posts: 32,146
Apr 28, 2018, 11:59 am
#111
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: LHR Air Traffic Control
Programs: BAEC Silver
Posts: 875
The Twickenham one is good. I've been doing that myself for a good 10 years or so! Unless the photo is zoomed in I'm going to claim a 27L landing for that view.
Thanks. As far as I can remember we turned right after landing, so it must have been 27L. But don't ask me which taxiways we took on our way to T5A. ;-)
Thanks. As far as I can remember we turned right after landing, so it must have been 27L. But don't ask me which taxiways we took on our way to T5A. ;-)
"Left on Alpha, hold short of Delta"
"Contact Ground on 121.850"
"Continue on Alpha to stand 5xx"
Last edited by Heathrow Tower; Apr 28, 2018 at 12:08 pm
Apr 28, 2018, 1:43 pm
#112
Join Date: Mar 2005
Programs: BA, Virgin, Lufthansa
Posts: 183
I stay in the same UK hotel reguarly and my common mistake is forgetting which room I'm in - have tried to get into the room above mine several times and wondered why the key card doesn't work before eventually realising
Apr 28, 2018, 2:55 pm
#115
Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: EDI
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 466
Safety video starts, picture is a little wobbly, no sound, restarts, still not right...
Me: [Under breath] Cabin crew please prepare for manual safety demonstration.
Guy next to me: Sorry?
Me: Nothing
10 second wait
PA: Cabin crew please prepare for manual safety demonstration.
Me: [Under breath] Cabin crew please prepare for manual safety demonstration.
Guy next to me: Sorry?
Me: Nothing
10 second wait
PA: Cabin crew please prepare for manual safety demonstration.
Apr 28, 2018, 3:11 pm
#116
Join Date: Jul 2012
Posts: 2,237
At breakfast, I once gave the number of the room I had in the hotel I stayed the day before...
Apr 28, 2018, 4:53 pm
#118
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Oslo
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 204
Desperately needing the pizza, the f**kup was sorted out, and I couldn’t have been more mortified (nor apologetic). The delivery guy was handed a handsome tip for his efforts and patience.
Apr 28, 2018, 5:32 pm
#119
Join Date: Jan 2017
Posts: 101
Was talking to a colleagueat the airport and I laughed at him when he had written down his row number etcon his parking ticket saying surelyhe could rememberwhere he'd parked after a few days.
On the return I had to laugh: No not because I'd forgo twhere I'd parked but after finding him wondering around on my exit I had to drive him around the rows until he found his car! He'd recorded it wrong. I obviously never travelled enough to forget where I was parked.