DYKWIA | 2019 edition
Mar 10, 2019, 8:57 am
#151
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Mar 10, 2019, 9:12 am
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Make it nine of many thousands of FTers ... and this will become a long thread unless we get back to real DYKWIA moments!
Mar 10, 2019, 9:25 am
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Mar 10, 2019, 3:13 pm
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On a recent flight in CW to KIN, I was in 1F, Usain Bolt was in 2G (ie right in front of me), he was however swathed in a hoodie, a scarf and sunglasses and promptly reclined his seat and went to sleep; I had no idea who he was (I vaguely guessed he might be some form of musician)...
Mar 10, 2019, 3:51 pm
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Had some worries about looking like a DUKWIA tonight while trying to find the group 1 - the 4/5 group was spread out and did ask as worked forward to find that the group 1 has just one other person in it.
I think rest of CE came down from lounge slightly later, or got held up at passport control, which seemed slow, i.e. just one person and no auto gates working. This was delayed BA419 LUX to LHR
Did have trouble finding lounge, as some signs in airport send you to a closed escalator and lift, not until I'd studied a better map did I find it was down an unmarked corridor by security.
I think rest of CE came down from lounge slightly later, or got held up at passport control, which seemed slow, i.e. just one person and no auto gates working. This was delayed BA419 LUX to LHR
Did have trouble finding lounge, as some signs in airport send you to a closed escalator and lift, not until I'd studied a better map did I find it was down an unmarked corridor by security.
Mar 10, 2019, 4:47 pm
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This is despite having GE. When asked he replied “because you not a US citizen”
I informed him that in the last 6 years since getting GE this was the first stamp I got. His face was priceless, as he was convinced he was right.
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Mar 10, 2019, 5:19 pm
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Oh no. 
I am just a keen (non-DYKWIA!) member of the audience.
Speaking of celebrity unawareness, I was once on a BA flight to OTP where someone was getting inordinate amount of attention from crew and passengers. Curious, I asked who he was (I had no idea). The crew member (who was a bit of a well-known character himself) told me it was Ilie Nastase. Now you might think, being a bad boy of tennis (I knew his name, I didn't know his face), he might be DYKWIA. He wasn't. He kindly even picked up my bag for me off the carousel when he saw it was rather large when I was about to pick it up
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Ah, and Sir Bob Geldof was rather non-DYKWIA. He was waiting at the carousel with everyone else. He didn't even have the sunglasses on for some time, and was very chatty to whoever he seemed to be travelling with.
My apologies for turning the thread into an almost counter-DYKWIA and IDKWYA (I Don't Know Who You Are).
I am just a keen (non-DYKWIA!) member of the audience.Speaking of celebrity unawareness, I was once on a BA flight to OTP where someone was getting inordinate amount of attention from crew and passengers. Curious, I asked who he was (I had no idea). The crew member (who was a bit of a well-known character himself) told me it was Ilie Nastase. Now you might think, being a bad boy of tennis (I knew his name, I didn't know his face), he might be DYKWIA. He wasn't. He kindly even picked up my bag for me off the carousel when he saw it was rather large when I was about to pick it up
.Ah, and Sir Bob Geldof was rather non-DYKWIA. He was waiting at the carousel with everyone else. He didn't even have the sunglasses on for some time, and was very chatty to whoever he seemed to be travelling with.
My apologies for turning the thread into an almost counter-DYKWIA and IDKWYA (I Don't Know Who You Are).
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Mar 10, 2019, 9:20 pm
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travelling through US preclearance in Dublin the other day, I have a CBP officer stamp my passport.
This is despite having GE. When asked he replied “because you not a US citizen”
I informed him that in the last 6 years since getting GE this was the first stamp I got. His face was priceless, as he was convinced he was right.
Mar 11, 2019, 1:18 am
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Mar 11, 2019, 1:37 am
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Not a BA instance but as we seem to all enjoy general DWKWIA and I have not seen this posted previously I thought the group might enjoy. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-...attle-hansson/ Mods please delete if it has been posted before
Mar 11, 2019, 1:45 am
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Had some worries about looking like a DUKWIA tonight while trying to find the group 1 - the 4/5 group was spread out and did ask as worked forward to find that the group 1 has just one other person in it.
I think rest of CE came down from lounge slightly later, or got held up at passport control, which seemed slow, i.e. just one person and no auto gates working. This was delayed BA419 LUX to LHR
Did have trouble finding lounge, as some signs in airport send you to a closed escalator and lift, not until I'd studied a better map did I find it was down an unmarked corridor by security.
I think rest of CE came down from lounge slightly later, or got held up at passport control, which seemed slow, i.e. just one person and no auto gates working. This was delayed BA419 LUX to LHR
Did have trouble finding lounge, as some signs in airport send you to a closed escalator and lift, not until I'd studied a better map did I find it was down an unmarked corridor by security.
Mar 11, 2019, 1:47 am
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On a recent flight in CW to KIN, I was in 1F, Usain Bolt was in 2G (ie right in front of me), he was however swathed in a hoodie, a scarf and sunglasses and promptly reclined his seat and went to sleep; I had no idea who he was (I vaguely guessed he might be some form of musician)...
Mar 11, 2019, 10:32 am
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A genuine IKWYA (I know who you are) (perhaps belongs in celeb) anyway flying SIN back to LHr on the BA12, Prof Brian Cox and party of three attempted to jump the queue at the security check to the gate area (A380, long premium queue of F, CW and BAEC/OW status pax). The Singapore agent had none of it and sent them to the back of the queue saying ‘there all premium passengers, the back of the queue is that way.
He was prob in CW as wasn’t in the F cabin.
He was prob in CW as wasn’t in the F cabin.