DYKWIA | 2019 edition
Aug 6, 2019, 4:44 am
#376
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: GLA
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 2,964
Astonishing. I like to think that a lot of the things in this thread are stressed people having bad days, genuinely not realising where queues end, or acting in a way which will cause them to flinch when they stop and think about it later, but this is another level of conceited arrogance - and to say it in front of the crew member concerned is calculated nastiness.
Aug 6, 2019, 4:46 am
#377
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Brexile in ADB
Programs: BA, TK, HHonours, Le Club, Best Western Rewards
Posts: 7,067
Aug 6, 2019, 4:52 am
#378
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: AMS / DUS / DXB
Programs: BAEC Silver | Flying Blue Gold | Accor Gold
Posts: 107
I'm usually one to keep to myself in such situations but I'd find it hard to not make a remark on that if I saw that happening.
Aug 6, 2019, 5:01 am
#379
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: north of heathrow
Posts: 1,109
That’s the one I remember most clearly, I have a list. After so many years flying, that list is relatively short, so the huge majority of people are very pleasant. Thank goodness. I have been reduced to tears only once early on. It’s a shock to learn how rude some people can be.
Aug 6, 2019, 6:11 am
#380
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Londinium
Programs: BAEC Gold, BA Amex PP, Virgin Gold
Posts: 287
Recently a crew-member upon seeing I was a Gold in ET brought me glasses of wine (in real glass) from Club and ensured I had a very pleasant flight. I asked for her name to leave a "Well Done" as a thank you and the CSM came later and said "you've made her day, she's only been flying a few weeks". A case of she SDKWIW (she did know who I was) and hopefully better manners than the brattish behaviour of these parents (and their kids).
Aug 6, 2019, 7:12 am
#381
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: MSN
Programs: AA, BAEC Gold
Posts: 3,933
A cabin crew friend of mine (not BA) has all manner of stories referring to the way she and others are treated by pax. One woman with a child who, when served their meal the mother said to the child, "Oh you don't need to say thank you. They are here to serve us." Yeah - until there's an emergency and they save your sorry life. Unbelievable.
Aug 6, 2019, 4:30 pm
#382
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 4,029
I’ve just had a DYKWAIA (Don’t You Know What An Idiot I Am) moment.
Logged in to my account on Sunday to make my EU261 claim for BA115 to JFK being cancelled on Friday and realised I’m 10TP away from re-qualifying for gold with a year end of 8th October. Bit of a first world panic for the last couple of the days as I wonder how I could get my calculations so wrong.
Start looking at weekends away, but can’t fit anything in with wife’s travel and some football commitments. Decide to just book a B2B to AMS and offset with a handful of Avios.
A minute after I booked the second leg, it dawned on me that I need 10TP now - I’m still in NY and have 140TP coming from my flight home on Thursday
DYKWAIA
Logged in to my account on Sunday to make my EU261 claim for BA115 to JFK being cancelled on Friday and realised I’m 10TP away from re-qualifying for gold with a year end of 8th October. Bit of a first world panic for the last couple of the days as I wonder how I could get my calculations so wrong.
Start looking at weekends away, but can’t fit anything in with wife’s travel and some football commitments. Decide to just book a B2B to AMS and offset with a handful of Avios.
A minute after I booked the second leg, it dawned on me that I need 10TP now - I’m still in NY and have 140TP coming from my flight home on Thursday
DYKWAIA
Aug 6, 2019, 4:41 pm
#383
Join Date: Nov 2006
Programs: Seniors Bus Pass
Posts: 5,531
Nurse will be along shortly with your medication!
Do you want ice and lemon too?
Do you want ice and lemon too?
Aug 6, 2019, 4:45 pm
#384
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: London
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 4,029
Think I’ve had a few too many things with ice and lemon in them recently which led to that...
Aug 6, 2019, 5:12 pm
#385
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: GLA
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 2,964
Enjoy Schiphol! 
Aug 6, 2019, 5:57 pm
#386
Moderator: British Airways Executive Club
Join Date: Jan 2009
Programs: Battleaxe Alliance
Posts: 22,127
This.
A cabin crew friend of mine (not BA) has all manner of stories referring to the way she and others are treated by pax. One woman with a child who, when served their meal the mother said to the child, "Oh you don't need to say thank you. They are here to serve us." Yeah - until there's an emergency and they save your sorry life. Unbelievable.
A cabin crew friend of mine (not BA) has all manner of stories referring to the way she and others are treated by pax. One woman with a child who, when served their meal the mother said to the child, "Oh you don't need to say thank you. They are here to serve us." Yeah - until there's an emergency and they save your sorry life. Unbelievable.
It wasn't a language issue - they spoke with entirely native American accent. (Not said to cast aspersions on American people but it's not right to call it English accent because it wasn't).
After the flight, the parents (particularly the father) were really rude and aggressive to other people in the immigration queue.
There are rude people in all walks of life, and it's really rather disappointing, and quite DYKWIA that they never said please or thank you.
It's unpleasant to be around those horrid people. If I ever made a habit of flying private, it would be so that I don't have to witness those unpleasant fellow passengers and not for any other reason.
Aug 6, 2019, 10:04 pm
#387
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: The Far, Far North
Programs: Alaskans fly everywhere on any aircraft going there!
Posts: 1,262
Well so let's think about Downton Abbey (no moans and all that).....they always said thank you to their staff....those who are accustomed to status and money know the way to treat those around them...those who feel they have to "show" their "status" and "money" will not. It's simple really....the wanna be's and the nouveau pretty regularly show their deficiencies! Those poor children...it will serve them poorly for life and those parents should be ashamed. Today at the supermarket a lovely young man (who closely resemblled The Beast) was just in front of me in line (me - read senior citizen lady) and he turned and said let me unload that cart for you, miss. WOW! To be followed by a young woman who barged in front of me saying "can I go first/" She was rather quickly told that a please was in order and that was supported by me!
Aug 6, 2019, 11:39 pm
#388
Join Date: Mar 2008
Posts: 628
I was recently on a train with a colleague and as I was getting off said thank you to the crew member at the door. My colleague looked at me shocked and said ‘you’re far too polite’. I’m not sure some people realise how sometimes a simple ‘thank you’ can positively impact someone’s day.
Also a few years ago I flew with my 7 year old daughter in first on a 241. The immense pride I felt when the crew member said to me she was one of the most polite children she’d had the pleasure to serve stays with me now. Those children in the previous posts are really going to miss out in life (maybe not material things, but emotionally),
Also a few years ago I flew with my 7 year old daughter in first on a 241. The immense pride I felt when the crew member said to me she was one of the most polite children she’d had the pleasure to serve stays with me now. Those children in the previous posts are really going to miss out in life (maybe not material things, but emotionally),
Aug 6, 2019, 11:42 pm
#389
Join Date: Feb 2016
Programs: BAEC GGL
Posts: 844
I’ve just had a DYKWAIA (Don’t You Know What An Idiot I Am) moment.
Logged in to my account on Sunday to make my EU261 claim for BA115 to JFK being cancelled on Friday and realised I’m 10TP away from re-qualifying for gold with a year end of 8th October. Bit of a first world panic for the last couple of the days as I wonder how I could get my calculations so wrong.
Start looking at weekends away, but can’t fit anything in with wife’s travel and some football commitments. Decide to just book a B2B to AMS and offset with a handful of Avios.
A minute after I booked the second leg, it dawned on me that I need 10TP now - I’m still in NY and have 140TP coming from my flight home on Thursday
DYKWAIA
Logged in to my account on Sunday to make my EU261 claim for BA115 to JFK being cancelled on Friday and realised I’m 10TP away from re-qualifying for gold with a year end of 8th October. Bit of a first world panic for the last couple of the days as I wonder how I could get my calculations so wrong.
Start looking at weekends away, but can’t fit anything in with wife’s travel and some football commitments. Decide to just book a B2B to AMS and offset with a handful of Avios.
A minute after I booked the second leg, it dawned on me that I need 10TP now - I’m still in NY and have 140TP coming from my flight home on Thursday
DYKWAIA
Aug 7, 2019, 1:26 am
#390
formerly fdemoulin
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: UK
Programs: SPG Lifetime Platinum, BA Silver, Virgin Flying Club Red
Posts: 916
I was recently on a train with a colleague and as I was getting off said thank you to the crew member at the door. My colleague looked at me shocked and said ‘you’re far too polite’. I’m not sure some people realise how sometimes a simple ‘thank you’ can positively impact someone’s day.
Also a few years ago I flew with my 7 year old daughter in first on a 241. The immense pride I felt when the crew member said to me she was one of the most polite children she’d had the pleasure to serve stays with me now. Those children in the previous posts are really going to miss out in life (maybe not material things, but emotionally),
Also a few years ago I flew with my 7 year old daughter in first on a 241. The immense pride I felt when the crew member said to me she was one of the most polite children she’d had the pleasure to serve stays with me now. Those children in the previous posts are really going to miss out in life (maybe not material things, but emotionally),