DYKWIA | 2019 edition
Mar 11, 2019, 4:40 pm
#166
Join Date: May 2017
Location: Glasgow and Asia
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Has this thread morphed into the Celebs on BA thread?
Mar 11, 2019, 4:43 pm
#167
Join Date: Mar 2018
Programs: BA GGL/CCR
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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, 8:25 pm
#168
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: IAD
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Hmm. Does that mean that I'm playing the DYKWIA card?
Mar 11, 2019, 11:06 pm
#169
Join Date: Dec 2016
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La Cox had a rant on
about Heathrow immigration on twitter last week. A couple of people pointed out it was better than most hubs and that scientists shouldn't be extrapolating from one case, but to no avail.
He seems to be a proper DYKWIA diva behind the cuddly public persona.
He seems to be a proper DYKWIA diva behind the cuddly public persona.
Mar 11, 2019, 11:31 pm
#170
Join Date: Nov 2004
Programs: BA GGL, LH FTL
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La Cox had a rant on Twitter about Heathrow immigration on twitter last week. A couple of people pointed out it was better than most hubs and that scientists shouldn't be extrapolating from one case, but to no avail.
He seems to be a proper DYKWIA diva behind the cuddly public persona.
He seems to be a proper DYKWIA diva behind the cuddly public persona.
Mar 12, 2019, 12:20 am
#171
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Well he's drawing a general conclusion from a fairly unusual circumstance. I can't remember the last time I queued more than 10 mins at LHR.
Mar 12, 2019, 12:28 am
#172
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Ipswich
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i think you've been lucky. It often works well, but I've been through a few long and tedious queues. It's particularly galling when they try to set up the multiple queues behind each machine rather than a single queue.
Mar 12, 2019, 2:43 am
#173
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i cant remember the last time I queued at all at T5. Yesterday at 1330 was another example where at T5 there were a number of free e-passport machines to pick from.
Mar 12, 2019, 3:20 am
#174
Join Date: Aug 2017
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Live DYKWIA from Galleries First. A loud mouth passenger trying to impress a colleague who he has guested into the lounge is waxing lyrical (and vey loudly) that he is one of the BA's top 5 customers so he can demand anyone is removed from their seat if he prefers it and is guaranteed an upgrade to first on every flight (but turned it down this time so he could sit with his colleague). The only reason he is not in the CCR is because he finds the standards too low compared to GF.
He has just said the best bit - he was returning from SEA a few weeks ago and there was an hour delay and, due to holding at LHR, he was going to miss his connection. He, seemingly, informed the CSD, who told the pilot. Because MrDYKWIA is "so important to BA" the pilot overruled air traffic control and landed regardless just so he could make his connection. His colleague is lapping it up. I really want to say something but I'm enjoying just sitting here laughing quietly.
He has just said the best bit - he was returning from SEA a few weeks ago and there was an hour delay and, due to holding at LHR, he was going to miss his connection. He, seemingly, informed the CSD, who told the pilot. Because MrDYKWIA is "so important to BA" the pilot overruled air traffic control and landed regardless just so he could make his connection. His colleague is lapping it up. I really want to say something but I'm enjoying just sitting here laughing quietly.
Mar 12, 2019, 3:36 am
#175
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Live DYKWIA from Galleries First. A loud mouth passenger trying to impress a colleague who he has guested into the lounge is waxing lyrical (and vey loudly) that he is one of the BA's top 5 customers so he can demand anyone is removed from their seat if he prefers it and is guaranteed an upgrade to first on every flight (but turned it down this time so he could sit with his colleague). The only reason he is not in the CCR is because he finds the standards too low compared to GF.
He has just said the best bit - he was returning from SEA a few weeks ago and there was an hour delay and, due to holding at LHR, he was going to miss his connection. He, seemingly, informed the CSD, who told the pilot. Because MrDYKWIA is "so important to BA" the pilot overruled air traffic control and landed regardless just so he could make his connection. His colleague is lapping it up. I really want to say something but I'm enjoying just sitting here laughing quietly.
He has just said the best bit - he was returning from SEA a few weeks ago and there was an hour delay and, due to holding at LHR, he was going to miss his connection. He, seemingly, informed the CSD, who told the pilot. Because MrDYKWIA is "so important to BA" the pilot overruled air traffic control and landed regardless just so he could make his connection. His colleague is lapping it up. I really want to say something but I'm enjoying just sitting here laughing quietly.
Mar 12, 2019, 3:38 am
#176
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: California
Posts: 463
This isn't limited to US interview officers. I have Registered Traveler, which lets me use the EU gates to enter the UK. I always have to argue with the staff who spot the silly american who tries to use them, then love the look of shock from them when it works.
Hmm. Does that mean that I'm playing the DYKWIA card?
Hmm. Does that mean that I'm playing the DYKWIA card?
Mar 12, 2019, 3:59 am
#178
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Location: BKK
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What a plonker!
Mar 12, 2019, 4:02 am
#179
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Join Date: Jan 2009
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I've never got the sticker that Agneisse mentioned though (only the plastic card).
Mar 12, 2019, 4:34 am
#180
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Hong Kong
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Live DYKWIA from Galleries First. A loud mouth passenger trying to impress a colleague who he has guested into the lounge is waxing lyrical (and vey loudly) that he is one of the BA's top 5 customers so he can demand anyone is removed from their seat if he prefers it and is guaranteed an upgrade to first on every flight (but turned it down this time so he could sit with his colleague). The only reason he is not in the CCR is because he finds the standards too low compared to GF.
He has just said the best bit - he was returning from SEA a few weeks ago and there was an hour delay and, due to holding at LHR, he was going to miss his connection. He, seemingly, informed the CSD, who told the pilot. Because MrDYKWIA is "so important to BA" the pilot overruled air traffic control and landed regardless just so he could make his connection. His colleague is lapping it up. I really want to say something but I'm enjoying just sitting here laughing quietly.
He has just said the best bit - he was returning from SEA a few weeks ago and there was an hour delay and, due to holding at LHR, he was going to miss his connection. He, seemingly, informed the CSD, who told the pilot. Because MrDYKWIA is "so important to BA" the pilot overruled air traffic control and landed regardless just so he could make his connection. His colleague is lapping it up. I really want to say something but I'm enjoying just sitting here laughing quietly.
Now, a DYKWMFI story...
Many, many years ago, my father (a very quiet and unassuming man, albeit of fearsome intellect) was visiting a client in India and was invited to dinner before his flight home (on BA, I haven't gone wholly off-topic!). He was getting increasingly anxious about missing his flight and several times said to his host that he really needed to head for the airport, only to be gently rebuffed each time, being told that there was plenty of time, that a chauffeur was on call, and so forth. When he was eventually allowed to leave - convinced by this stage that he was going to be too late - his host said that he would call the airport and my father would be fine. Dad was then driven not just to the airport, but onto the apron, where it turned out that someone seated in first class had been booted out, the plane had taxied away from the gate, a boarding ladder brought up to the plane, and the plane had been held by ATC until my father boarded - as soon as he had, the flight was cleared for take-off. He was hideously embarrassed by the whole incident, but no-one said a word. Perhaps that was just through politeness, but more probably because everyone on board thought that someone with enough clout to hold up a scheduled flight and get someone kicked out of F was not someone to pick a fight with!