DYKWIA | 2019 edition
Jul 12, 2019, 6:40 am
#301
Moderator: British Airways Executive Club
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This tale from another thread definitely belongs in here:
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/31295785-post1430.html
https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/31295785-post1430.html
Jul 12, 2019, 3:41 pm
#303
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: SEA, YVR
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I'm 30, but similarly am baby faced and look more like 20 (darn these chubby cheeks!), and this happens to me nearly every time I fly in J/F. Doesn't matter which airline, AF, KLM, BR, BA, have all tried to point me towards check in machines or economy when I approach the check in counter. Most recently I flew SEA-LHR in paid F and got a very similar treatment as you did, and if I hadn't grown up as a polite Canadian, there would definitely have been a DYKWIA moment. Ironically I was also dressed fairly nicely, having gone to the airport straight from work, but the two European men behind me in (what smelled like) unwashed tracksuits weren't accosted at all.
Weirdly, no issues when going through the T5 first class wing though. pleasant surprise.
Weirdly, no issues when going through the T5 first class wing though. pleasant surprise.
Jul 13, 2019, 1:27 am
#304
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A hotel chain, https://www.macdonaldhotels.co.uk/ I am not sure what the meal deal is.
Jul 21, 2019, 1:27 pm
#305
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: NT Australia
Programs: QF WP
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Just witnessed some complete idiot having a crack at the gate ticket checking lady at HEX T5 about the fact you can’t but tickets on the train
if there was a pressure of time I might understand but this was about 7 minutes before the train was even scheduled to depart!! So he comfortably had time to buy his ticket at the oh so inconvenient ticket machine, and then sit on the train fuming for 5 minutes
as an aside, is it not possible to use contactless?
if there was a pressure of time I might understand but this was about 7 minutes before the train was even scheduled to depart!! So he comfortably had time to buy his ticket at the oh so inconvenient ticket machine, and then sit on the train fuming for 5 minutes
as an aside, is it not possible to use contactless?
Jul 21, 2019, 2:19 pm
#306
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: LON
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Jul 21, 2019, 2:34 pm
#307
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: NT Australia
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I’m sure you used to be able to, but he seemed to be fully aware that was no longer possible and also seemed to think that having a go at some poor wage slave was the correct way to go about expressing his dislike for the change in policy
i’d have had a good mind to tell him to .... off. But the attendant was obviously a better person than I 😉
i’d have had a good mind to tell him to .... off. But the attendant was obviously a better person than I 😉
Jul 21, 2019, 10:04 pm
#308
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Dubai
Programs: BAEC Gold
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Lady in CW on a flight yesterday from LHR to DXB had a F pyjama top on over a hoody. I was in WTP, and she walked through and down through the WT cabin around every hour of the flight. DYKIOFIF?
Jul 22, 2019, 3:01 am
#309
Moderator: Qatar Airways
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They're warm, stretchy, and keep their shape in the wash (albeit not the colour!).
So I fall into the same category of often flying in F!
M
Jul 22, 2019, 3:05 am
#310
Join Date: Jun 2016
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 1,166
wearing the pyjamas over the hoody is just weird though
Jul 22, 2019, 3:06 am
#311
Join Date: Apr 2012
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Jul 22, 2019, 3:51 am
#312
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Or - given such odd behaviour - quite possibly may never have flown in F at all !
Could have got her PJ top from someone who did ..... from a car boot sale or charity shop (have actually spotted examples at both .....) ........ could have surreptitiously snagged one left lying on seat at the end of a flight.
Could have got her PJ top from someone who did ..... from a car boot sale or charity shop (have actually spotted examples at both .....) ........ could have surreptitiously snagged one left lying on seat at the end of a flight.
Jul 22, 2019, 3:54 am
#313
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Edinburgh
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Or - given such odd behaviour - quite possibly may never have flown in F at all !
Could have got her PJ top from someone who did ..... from a car boot sale or charity shop (have actually spotted examples at both .....) ........ could have surreptitiously snagged one left lying on seat at the end of a flight.
Jul 22, 2019, 4:23 am
#314
Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 5,596
Or - given such odd behaviour - quite possibly may never have flown in F at all !
Could have got her PJ top from someone who did ..... from a car boot sale or charity shop (have actually spotted examples at both .....) ........ could have surreptitiously snagged one left lying on seat at the end of a flight.
Jul 22, 2019, 4:26 am
#315
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I don't consider it a faux pas. Be comfortable in any cabin, sod whatever other people think.