DYKWIA | 2019 edition
Sep 19, 2019, 5:52 pm
#556
Join Date: Oct 2005
Programs: BA GGL & GfL, AA LTP, Marriott (sigh) Ambassador, Hilton Diamond
Posts: 3,237
can we re-focus on terrible people on BA related flights pls? i cant with posts about other experiences or the red trousers which in america have a different meaning. thanks.
Sep 19, 2019, 11:25 pm
#557
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: London
Programs: BA GGL (for now) and Lifetime Gold, Marriott fan thanks to Bonvoy Moments
Posts: 5,115
My biggest error (I blame tiredness) was boarding a 747 at JFK for my first trip on the UD after assigning myself 62K.
In my dreary eyed state, I think of K as being on my left hand side as I walk down the aisle so proceed to sit myself comfortably in 64A, decline dinner and get myself to sleep straight after take off.
Only after I awoke did I realise that I had inadvertantly taken someone elses seat.
Thank you to whoever you were in being so gracious as to let me sleep!
In my dreary eyed state, I think of K as being on my left hand side as I walk down the aisle so proceed to sit myself comfortably in 64A, decline dinner and get myself to sleep straight after take off.
Only after I awoke did I realise that I had inadvertantly taken someone elses seat.
Thank you to whoever you were in being so gracious as to let me sleep!
Sep 22, 2019, 3:59 pm
#559
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: YVR, HNL
Programs: AS 75k, UA peon, BA Bronze, AC E50k, Marriott Plat, HH Diamond, Fairmont Plat (RIP)
Posts: 7,832
I’ll chip in one from my flight today from VIE to LHR. I was in the last row of CE. In fact they may have moved the curtain back just for little ol’ me as I was the only person in row 6 after an inbound delay caused me to miss my connecting OS flight and OS rebooked me onto BA at the last minute. So they KWIA. 
But the real DYKWIA was a lady from behind the curtain. Once the seatbelt sign went off, a fellow in row 3 got up to use the lav. Just as I got up to use it after him, the lady barges through the curtain almost pushing me back into my seat. She follows me to the front and the (incredibly awesome) FA told the lady she needed to use the lav in the back. She said there was a queue and she was not going to wait in any line. He asked her if her need was urgent and she said no but she wasn’t going to stand in line. The CSD said she needed to go to the back as it is a different cabin and there were business class passengers waiting to use the lav up front. She loudly declared that she had been flying with BA for 20 years and millions of miles, she was not going to wait in any line and she will use whatever toilet she wanted to. She refused to move so there wasn’t really much they could do and in she went when the guy came out. Heavy Eastern European accent so neither Austrian nor British. And considering there were 3 empty CE seats, despite her ‘millions of miles’, it seems BA did not KWSW either.
But the real DYKWIA was a lady from behind the curtain. Once the seatbelt sign went off, a fellow in row 3 got up to use the lav. Just as I got up to use it after him, the lady barges through the curtain almost pushing me back into my seat. She follows me to the front and the (incredibly awesome) FA told the lady she needed to use the lav in the back. She said there was a queue and she was not going to wait in any line. He asked her if her need was urgent and she said no but she wasn’t going to stand in line. The CSD said she needed to go to the back as it is a different cabin and there were business class passengers waiting to use the lav up front. She loudly declared that she had been flying with BA for 20 years and millions of miles, she was not going to wait in any line and she will use whatever toilet she wanted to. She refused to move so there wasn’t really much they could do and in she went when the guy came out. Heavy Eastern European accent so neither Austrian nor British. And considering there were 3 empty CE seats, despite her ‘millions of miles’, it seems BA did not KWSW either.
Oct 4, 2019, 8:13 am
#560
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: UK
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 2,422
I've seen monogrammed luggage before but this is a first (for me anyway), added DYKWIA points for having the Gold card positioned just right.
Oct 4, 2019, 8:22 am
#561
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: US/UK - and elsewhere
Programs: BA Gold
Posts: 2,559
Luggage identification: ... should have gone to Specsavers.... 
Oct 4, 2019, 8:30 am
#562
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: BHX
Programs: BA GGL CCR GfL, SQ Gold, Hyatt Glob, HH Diamond, Marriott Plat, Cafe Nero Loyalty Card (7 Stamps)
Posts: 7,330
If he hasn't got a cover for that then you can expect another tweet in 12 hours or so showing it absolutely scratched to bits.
Oct 4, 2019, 9:20 am
#564
Join Date: Oct 2018
Location: London
Programs: BAEC blue dust
Posts: 271
There's LV, JG and HB on that luggage... That man clearly doesn't even know who he is 
Oct 4, 2019, 9:40 am
#565
Join Date: Jul 2018
Posts: 246
Louis Vuitton luggage is tacky in the extreme, in my opinion.
Oct 4, 2019, 10:06 am
#566
Join Date: Aug 2019
Location: Tenerife
Programs: BA Gold, BA AMEX PP, Amex Platinum
Posts: 434
So does anyone know who the flamboyant luggage owner with the silly haircut is? Someone, anyone?
He's flying 1st class don't.you know, apparently got a mention in the daily mail in July don't you know.
Someone, anyone?He's flying 1st class don't.you know, apparently got a mention in the daily mail in July don't you know.
Oct 4, 2019, 10:12 am
#567
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: living near Malaga
Programs: BA Gold , Mucci recipient. Coffee Drinker, Blue Sky Thinker
Posts: 2,112
Oct 4, 2019, 10:17 am
#568
Join Date: Aug 2019
Location: Tenerife
Programs: BA Gold, BA AMEX PP, Amex Platinum
Posts: 434
Oct 4, 2019, 10:22 am
#569
Suspended
Join Date: Mar 2014
Programs: Regarded as total and utter snob amongst the BAEC community.
Posts: 971
So does anyone know who the flamboyant luggage owner with the silly haircut is? Someone, anyone?
He's flying 1st don't you know!
He's flying 1st class don't.you know, apparently got a mention in the daily mail in July don't you know.
Someone, anyone?He's flying 1st don't you know!
He's flying 1st class don't.you know, apparently got a mention in the daily mail in July don't you know.
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