DYKWIA | 2020/21 edition
#391
Join Date: Mar 2020
Programs: British Airways GGL/CCR, Hilton Diamond & Marriott Gold
Posts: 2,606
#392
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: DFW or GOT or...
Programs: BA Gold, Marriott GFL
Posts: 808
Can we please get back to the topic?
LcS
LcS
#394
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Effectively grounded
Programs: BA GGL for a little while longer
Posts: 844
DYKWTTI ?
Do You Know What Thread This Is ?
Do You Know What Thread This Is ?
#395
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: UK - Hampshire & London
Programs: Mucci de Guardian des Celliers des Grands Crus 1e Class, plus BAEC.
Posts: 2,717
If we have nothing worthy of this thread by next Thursday, I'm prepared to take one for the team and do some entitled flouncing around T5, before heading off to BLQ for the weekend.
#396
Join Date: Mar 2020
Programs: British Airways GGL/CCR, Hilton Diamond & Marriott Gold
Posts: 2,606
Careful your behaviour doesn't fall foul of the new BAEC rules and they strip you off Avios and Status
#397
While not a traditional DYKWIA I have this story from a few years ago. I didn't deem it good enough back then, but as we seem to have a bit if a dry time I hope it'll be good enough:
I was returning from Marrakech and at the airport I met the parents of a friends friend of mine. Now at the time Marrakech airport was a bit of a mess regarding Lounges and Fast Track as you'd need a voucher from the check-in and they only gave them out if you asked and even then it was a gamble.
Since I know Marrakech a bit as I pass through it often enough I started to explain the process to those two while we were waiting in line for the check-in to open.
My explanation was met with a quite abrupt "I know, I travel a few hundred thousand miles per year." from the guy. (It was his first time in Marrakech I later found out).
Despite my urge to not tell them that they were in the wrong check-in line (I was flying to Geneva with Swiss, they were flying to Zurich direct with Edelweiss, a Swiss subsidiary, and despite that the flights always use different check-in desks), I did, which was met with a "I know what I'm doing. This is the right line." They stood their ground and when coming to the desk after me, after some arguing, they were sent away to the other business desk at which a huge line had formed by now.
Telling them: "I told you so." just didn't feel quite fitting then. Ah regrets...
Later in the terminal I was sitting in the lounge enjoying a drink when both of them arrived. I greeted them and told them that it's great they were let in as it's always a bit of a gamble here to which the guy replied with a pretentious smile: "I have all the cards to get in anywhere. Boy, why did they let you in?" while showing me his wallet with a Priority Pass, a few golden credit cards and one very high status card.
I really wish I had a better response than literally just telling them I had status and was flying J... Suggestions for next time are very welcome.
It's just the cheesy way he said it that made everyone around know how highly he thought of himself, in the sense of DYKWIA.
I was returning from Marrakech and at the airport I met the parents of a friends friend of mine. Now at the time Marrakech airport was a bit of a mess regarding Lounges and Fast Track as you'd need a voucher from the check-in and they only gave them out if you asked and even then it was a gamble.
Since I know Marrakech a bit as I pass through it often enough I started to explain the process to those two while we were waiting in line for the check-in to open.
My explanation was met with a quite abrupt "I know, I travel a few hundred thousand miles per year." from the guy. (It was his first time in Marrakech I later found out).
Despite my urge to not tell them that they were in the wrong check-in line (I was flying to Geneva with Swiss, they were flying to Zurich direct with Edelweiss, a Swiss subsidiary, and despite that the flights always use different check-in desks), I did, which was met with a "I know what I'm doing. This is the right line." They stood their ground and when coming to the desk after me, after some arguing, they were sent away to the other business desk at which a huge line had formed by now.
Telling them: "I told you so." just didn't feel quite fitting then. Ah regrets...
Later in the terminal I was sitting in the lounge enjoying a drink when both of them arrived. I greeted them and told them that it's great they were let in as it's always a bit of a gamble here to which the guy replied with a pretentious smile: "I have all the cards to get in anywhere. Boy, why did they let you in?" while showing me his wallet with a Priority Pass, a few golden credit cards and one very high status card.
I really wish I had a better response than literally just telling them I had status and was flying J... Suggestions for next time are very welcome.
It's just the cheesy way he said it that made everyone around know how highly he thought of himself, in the sense of DYKWIA.
#398
Join Date: Mar 2020
Programs: British Airways GGL/CCR, Hilton Diamond & Marriott Gold
Posts: 2,606
#399
Join Date: Sep 2013
Location: Scotland
Programs: BAEC - Silver | Hilton Honors - Gold
Posts: 293
that will get some heads turning 😁
#401
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: GLA
Programs: BA Silver
Posts: 2,949
Well Ill share my own (unwitting) DYKWIA experience then...
Arrived a wee bit early for a flight from LIN, had a bag to check so went to do so...
Only one desk open, longish economy queue, but a clearly-signed priority entrance too (with no-one in it). I walked straight into the priority bit... as I stood waiting I had several people from the economy queue shout over that they had been waiting for ages etc. I replied that this was the priority queue. When the person in front moved, I politely, but loudly asked the check in person (before stepping up) if the priority line was in operation, to which I got a yes....
Stepped up feeling righteous (and the daggers in my back), handed over my passport, put my bag on the scales... only to be told that they can only check bags in 2 hours in advance and I needed to come back in 20 minutes!
I reclaimed my bag and sloped off without a glance behind me!!!
Arrived a wee bit early for a flight from LIN, had a bag to check so went to do so...
Only one desk open, longish economy queue, but a clearly-signed priority entrance too (with no-one in it). I walked straight into the priority bit... as I stood waiting I had several people from the economy queue shout over that they had been waiting for ages etc. I replied that this was the priority queue. When the person in front moved, I politely, but loudly asked the check in person (before stepping up) if the priority line was in operation, to which I got a yes....
Stepped up feeling righteous (and the daggers in my back), handed over my passport, put my bag on the scales... only to be told that they can only check bags in 2 hours in advance and I needed to come back in 20 minutes!
I reclaimed my bag and sloped off without a glance behind me!!!
#402
Join Date: Mar 2020
Programs: British Airways GGL/CCR, Hilton Diamond & Marriott Gold
Posts: 2,606
Well Ill share my own (unwitting) DYKWIA experience then...
Arrived a wee bit early for a flight from LIN, had a bag to check so went to do so...
Only one desk open, longish economy queue, but a clearly-signed priority entrance too (with no-one in it). I walked straight into the priority bit... as I stood waiting I had several people from the economy queue shout over that they had been waiting for ages etc. I replied that this was the priority queue. When the person in front moved, I politely, but loudly asked the check in person (before stepping up) if the priority line was in operation, to which I got a yes....
Stepped up feeling righteous (and the daggers in my back), handed over my passport, put my bag on the scales... only to be told that they can only check bags in 2 hours in advance and I needed to come back in 20 minutes!
I reclaimed my bag and sloped off without a glance behind me!!!
Arrived a wee bit early for a flight from LIN, had a bag to check so went to do so...
Only one desk open, longish economy queue, but a clearly-signed priority entrance too (with no-one in it). I walked straight into the priority bit... as I stood waiting I had several people from the economy queue shout over that they had been waiting for ages etc. I replied that this was the priority queue. When the person in front moved, I politely, but loudly asked the check in person (before stepping up) if the priority line was in operation, to which I got a yes....
Stepped up feeling righteous (and the daggers in my back), handed over my passport, put my bag on the scales... only to be told that they can only check bags in 2 hours in advance and I needed to come back in 20 minutes!
I reclaimed my bag and sloped off without a glance behind me!!!
#404
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: UK
Programs: Mucci. And BA Gold previous awards - Gold 11, Silver 7, Bronze 4.
Posts: 4,164
#405
Join Date: Mar 2020
Programs: British Airways GGL/CCR, Hilton Diamond & Marriott Gold
Posts: 2,606