Jumping the Queue in the First Wing
May 14, 2018, 12:34 pm
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May 14, 2018, 12:35 pm
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I’ve had push ins at the xray and the boarding pass scanner at the First wing. Frankly I find the self-entitlement behaviour bizarre, particularly with not the slightest attempt at excusing themselves or any eye contact.
On the xray incident, I still beat ‘em, and made sure they knew it, in a subtle manner.
On the xray incident, I still beat ‘em, and made sure they knew it, in a subtle manner.
Of course, on no occasion were they actually late for anything, just over-entitled.
May 14, 2018, 12:54 pm
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May 14, 2018, 12:55 pm
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May 14, 2018, 12:57 pm
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What a fantastically pro-active agent that was. As your BP gets scanned on their system it takes a second or two for their screen to refresh and s/he would then have noticed the B gate and boarding status, while you were negotiating the HAL scanners. In the circumstances it may have all been a bit of a rush, but if your recall their name it would seem to be a good time to use
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May 14, 2018, 1:11 pm
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I had an exceptionally good experience at MAN last Tuesday. It was lunchtime with almost no one at the Fast Track / Priority line and cheerful / chirpy staff. Mind you with a sample count of only 2 visits it's hardly the sort of thing to get excited over / draw unsubstantiated conclusions from 
May 14, 2018, 1:16 pm
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Id have gone up to her and said you clearly weren’t in that much of a rush to queue jump.
May 14, 2018, 1:22 pm
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No need to apologise to anyone for being escorted by BA to make your flight. 35 minutes from BP scan to pushback at B Gates is certainly racy. Thanks for posting the background too as I’m probably guilty of assuming you were a Prem with a sense of entitlement.
Perhaps the lady who came after you and found time for breakfast in GF is on FT as well and then we could have complete closure 😀
I don’t think we are in printingandbreakfast territory with this thread just yet !
Perhaps the lady who came after you and found time for breakfast in GF is on FT as well and then we could have complete closure 😀
I don’t think we are in printingandbreakfast territory with this thread just yet !
Last edited by Robespierre; May 14, 2018 at 1:43 pm
May 14, 2018, 3:03 pm
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She was absolutely amazing!!! I was afraid she was coming back to tell me I had been offloaded... Unfortunately I did not catch her name, but she was the one on the right and the time was few minutes after 6am. If somebody knows/remember the name I will be happy to send in a thank you note!
OT but why do people still clog up the belt after the scanner to get dressed / repack etc instead of using the seat / table structure - it just causes even more delays - especially when they don't stack the trays!
May 14, 2018, 3:31 pm
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No need for names. Just give as good a description of the events as you can - 'tall/short lady with blond/brown/pink hair on the right hand scanner at approx 6am' should be more than enough for BA to identify her.
OT but why do people still clog up the belt after the scanner to get dressed / repack etc instead of using the seat / table structure - it just causes even more delays - especially when they don't stack the trays!
OT but why do people still clog up the belt after the scanner to get dressed / repack etc instead of using the seat / table structure - it just causes even more delays - especially when they don't stack the trays!
May 14, 2018, 4:02 pm
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May 14, 2018, 4:31 pm
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I was the one escorted at 6am this morning and the only reason was simply bad time management skills (and a very unlucky Monday morning).
I scanned my BP literally 30 seconds before the offloading rule and I was about to get in line when the agent got back to me very worried as my flight was already boarding from the B gates and insisted in escorting me to the front of the line as I would have missed my flight otherwise. I was sincerely very embarrassed but I appreciated the gesture as the line was of at least 20 people as the Op mentioned.
I boarded on the final call and that little "push" probably saved me.
I'm pretty sure this kind of treatment could be enlisted as a reason why - almost - everyone here loves to fly BA.
I really apologise if that annoyed someone!!
I scanned my BP literally 30 seconds before the offloading rule and I was about to get in line when the agent got back to me very worried as my flight was already boarding from the B gates and insisted in escorting me to the front of the line as I would have missed my flight otherwise. I was sincerely very embarrassed but I appreciated the gesture as the line was of at least 20 people as the Op mentioned.
I boarded on the final call and that little "push" probably saved me.
I'm pretty sure this kind of treatment could be enlisted as a reason why - almost - everyone here loves to fly BA.
I really apologise if that annoyed someone!!