DYKWIA | 2019 edition
Mar 13, 2019, 12:30 pm
#197
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Prague, CZ, Europe
Programs: Hilton Lifetime Diamond, BA Gold
Posts: 234
I do not. Although being fresh Hilton LTD, I never rely on upgrades and when a room type matters to me, I simply book the room I want. Any upgrade then is a nice bonus - I don't remember asking for an upgrade.
Mar 13, 2019, 1:34 pm
#198
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Central Scotland, UK
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 286
Boarding at EDI this evening, we were in Group 1 queue and waiting just at the end of the tensa barriers. Probably another 3 or 4 people behind me. A woman cuts right in front of us, says “I’m PRIORITY”, and tries to work her way up the queue.
A man a couple of people ahead of me blocks her. She says “I’m priority boarding”. he keeps his back turned and pretends not to hear her.
I say to her “We all are Group 1, I expect. are you looking for the end of the Group One queue?” She mutters something about “it’s hard to know which queue is which” as she retreats to the back of Group 1 queue and talks very loudly about people being bothered about two or three places and how we will all be standing on the air bridge.
To be fair she has a point, but we are British and we queue and we don’t accept queue jumpers that’s that.
A man a couple of people ahead of me blocks her. She says “I’m priority boarding”. he keeps his back turned and pretends not to hear her.
I say to her “We all are Group 1, I expect. are you looking for the end of the Group One queue?” She mutters something about “it’s hard to know which queue is which” as she retreats to the back of Group 1 queue and talks very loudly about people being bothered about two or three places and how we will all be standing on the air bridge.
To be fair she has a point, but we are British and we queue and we don’t accept queue jumpers that’s that.
Mar 13, 2019, 1:46 pm
#199
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: MSN
Programs: AA, BAEC Gold
Posts: 3,929
Some time back I got to the gate for an LHR-MAN flight after a queue had formed. The people at the back were rather vague about what they were queuing for but it was easy to walk down the side and ask people at the front. They were Group 1 so I joined the back of the queue and then had to work my way past a lot of people when Group 1 was called. Things seem to be a bit better organised now but it can still be tricky.
Mar 13, 2019, 2:23 pm
#200
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: VPS
Programs: IHG Diamond, Delta PM, Hilton Gold, Accor Gold, Marriott Silver
Posts: 7,265
The same way that I know that old chestnut about the passenger pushing his way to the front of the queue saying ‘I must get through, do you know who I am,’ over and over, only to be met with the agent asking the group ‘can anyone help, this man appears to have forgotten who he is’ isn’t true, even though it seems to be retold all the time as a ‘real’ story. I believe there was at least one entry in FT in the very early days. You mustn’t believe everything you read!
Mar 13, 2019, 3:11 pm
#201
Join Date: Sep 2017
Location: Central Scotland, UK
Programs: BAEC Gold
Posts: 286
Some time back I got to the gate for an LHR-MAN flight after a queue had formed. The people at the back were rather vague about what they were queuing for but it was easy to walk down the side and ask people at the front. They were Group 1 so I joined the back of the queue and then had to work my way past a lot of people when Group 1 was called. Things seem to be a bit better organised now but it can still be tricky.
Blatant and unapologetic queue jumping I’d say.
Mar 13, 2019, 3:47 pm
#202
Join Date: Aug 2008
Posts: 3,925
I went somewhere, I think it was HEL, and I was the only Group 1 passenger; what a feeling of superiority as I settled into my Y seat (exit of course).
Mar 13, 2019, 4:52 pm
#203
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: London
Programs: BAEC | qantas | IHG | Hilton Honors | Priority Pass | Nandos
Posts: 868
The same way that I know that old chestnut about the passenger pushing his way to the front of the queue saying ‘I must get through, do you know who I am,’ over and over, only to be met with the agent asking the group ‘can anyone help, this man appears to have forgotten who he is’ isn’t true, even though it seems to be retold all the time as a ‘real’ story. I believe there was at least one entry in FT in the very early days. You mustn’t believe everything you read!
Mar 13, 2019, 5:07 pm
#204
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Brexile in ADB
Programs: BA, TK, HHonours, Le Club, Best Western Rewards
Posts: 7,067
Boarding at EDI this evening, we were in Group 1 queue and waiting just at the end of the tensa barriers. Probably another 3 or 4 people behind me. A woman cuts right in front of us, says “I’m PRIORITY”, and tries to work her way up the queue.
A man a couple of people ahead of me blocks her. She says “I’m priority boarding”. he keeps his back turned and pretends not to hear her.
I say to her “We all are Group 1, I expect. are you looking for the end of the Group One queue?” She mutters something about “it’s hard to know which queue is which” as she retreats to the back of Group 1 queue and talks very loudly about people being bothered about two or three places and how we will all be standing on the air bridge.
To be fair she has a point, but we are British and we queue and we don’t accept queue jumpers that’s that.
A man a couple of people ahead of me blocks her. She says “I’m priority boarding”. he keeps his back turned and pretends not to hear her.
I say to her “We all are Group 1, I expect. are you looking for the end of the Group One queue?” She mutters something about “it’s hard to know which queue is which” as she retreats to the back of Group 1 queue and talks very loudly about people being bothered about two or three places and how we will all be standing on the air bridge.
To be fair she has a point, but we are British and we queue and we don’t accept queue jumpers that’s that.
Mar 13, 2019, 7:49 pm
#205
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Alameda, CA, US
Programs: BAEC Gold (GGL/CCR), HHonors Diamond
Posts: 1,346
Mar 13, 2019, 8:29 pm
#206
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Hong Kong
Programs: CX (elite) and a few others (non-elite)
Posts: 687
Boarding at EDI this evening, we were in Group 1 queue and waiting just at the end of the tensa barriers. Probably another 3 or 4 people behind me. A woman cuts right in front of us, says “I’m PRIORITY”, and tries to work her way up the queue. A man a couple of people ahead of me blocks her. She says “I’m priority boarding”. he keeps his back turned and pretends not to hear her. I say to her “We all are Group 1, I expect. are you looking for the end of the Group One queue?” She mutters something about “it’s hard to know which queue is which” as she retreats to the back of Group 1 queue and talks very loudly about people being bothered about two or three places and how we will all be standing on the air bridge. To be fair she has a point, but we are British and we queue and we don’t accept queue jumpers that’s that.
He picked the wrong person to try that one on.
I swivelled round, directly in his path, pulled my wallet out of my pocket, pulled out a couple of cards, and said rather stonily "I have two oneworld emerald cards, I'm flying First Class, and I was here first". It helps that I'm six foot three, and I find that standing just a little bit closer to someone so they have to crane their necks upwards to look at me adds to the impact.
I hate being a DYKWIA (and I know, having written the above, that I just sounded like one!) but I was perfectly happy staying in my place in the queue while the people in front of me were having their BPs and passports checked, and the fact that this aggravating little git was DEFINITELY being a DYKWIA sparked that little demon inside and I couldn't resist the temptation to take him down a peg or three.
BTW I should add that I don't fly enough to get two oneworld emerald cards of my own - I earnt my CX one the hard way, and the Memsahib is Enrich Platinum with MH and they give spouses an Enrich Platinum card as well
I am still waiting for the opportunity to use a phrase I heard a while ago in response to some other aggravating little git who had protested "I'm a first class passenger". The reply (which is classic) was "No, sir, you just have a first class ticket". When I do get the chance to use it, I am going to add "and if you can't tell the difference, that's WHY you're not a first class passenger".
OK, that's enough Mr Grumpy for this morning. I'm off to Bangkok this evening, and I am going to be as nice as I can be to everyone I meet just to make up for my former petulance. Probably
Mar 13, 2019, 9:43 pm
#207
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: London Stratford, E7
Programs: BAEC Gold! Thanks to FT
Posts: 3,378
Cue a post from 24 March.
New to Flyertalk but wanted to get something off my chest,
As a Gold member travelling to Gibraltar on the lunchtime flight yesterday there were at least 45 people in the group one line for priority boarding. I mean how can this be a thing. I said to them repeatedly that I was Gold so should be able to board first and I was basically ignored. Some of them seemed very inebriated.. I mean to BA just give Gold cards out with breakfast cereal now and I couldn’t even get an exit seat either....
New to Flyertalk but wanted to get something off my chest,
As a Gold member travelling to Gibraltar on the lunchtime flight yesterday there were at least 45 people in the group one line for priority boarding. I mean how can this be a thing. I said to them repeatedly that I was Gold so should be able to board first and I was basically ignored. Some of them seemed very inebriated.. I mean to BA just give Gold cards out with breakfast cereal now and I couldn’t even get an exit seat either....
Mar 14, 2019, 3:46 am
#208
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Montreux CH
Programs: FB Platinum, M&M FTL, BA Blue
Posts: 11,621
Ian two posts above, you must be a rugby player!
I don't get any of this fun on my regular Air France, KLM, Eurowings or Lufthansa flights. Everyone seems very behaved a procedural! TBH there don't seem to be masses of Platinums or Golds when I board by AF KL flights, but maybe I am on elite thin routes.
I don't get any of this fun on my regular Air France, KLM, Eurowings or Lufthansa flights. Everyone seems very behaved a procedural! TBH there don't seem to be masses of Platinums or Golds when I board by AF KL flights, but maybe I am on elite thin routes.
Mar 25, 2019, 9:17 am
#209
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: UK
Programs: Virgin Flying Club Red, Emirates Skywards Blue, BA Executive Club Blue, Amex BA
Posts: 2,379
I've been a DYKWIA before I'm afraid. I didn't appreciate the lack of queue for F, so made my own.
Mar 25, 2019, 10:25 am
#210
Join Date: Nov 2006
Programs: Seniors Bus Pass
Posts: 5,529
Cue a post from 24 March.
New to Flyertalk but wanted to get something off my chest,
As a Gold member travelling to Gibraltar on the lunchtime flight yesterday there were at least 45 people in the group one line for priority boarding. I mean how can this be a thing. I said to them repeatedly that I was Gold so should be able to board first and I was basically ignored. Some of them seemed very inebriated.. I mean to BA just give Gold cards out with breakfast cereal now and I couldn’t even get an exit seat either....
New to Flyertalk but wanted to get something off my chest,
As a Gold member travelling to Gibraltar on the lunchtime flight yesterday there were at least 45 people in the group one line for priority boarding. I mean how can this be a thing. I said to them repeatedly that I was Gold so should be able to board first and I was basically ignored. Some of them seemed very inebriated.. I mean to BA just give Gold cards out with breakfast cereal now and I couldn’t even get an exit seat either....