DYKWIA | 2022 edition
Jun 19, 2022, 11:11 am
#271
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: Birmingham
Programs: BA Gold, HH Gold
Posts: 294
Jun 21, 2022, 6:05 am
#272
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Ireland
Programs: BA: GOLD, MARRIOTT: TITANIUM, IHG: PLAT, HILTON: GOLD
Posts: 491
Jun 21, 2022, 6:14 am
#273
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Spitalfields, London
Programs: BA Gold, KFC 'The Colonel's Club' Palladium tier, Mucci des Visions Célestes du Nord-Pas-de-Calais
Posts: 2,327
Jun 21, 2022, 10:28 am
#274
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: London
Programs: BA BLUE BADGE
Posts: 1,324
This is a dykwia thread not let's be nasty to someone for no reason thread.
Jun 21, 2022, 12:34 pm
#275
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: JER
Programs: BA Gold/OWE, several MUCCI, and assorted Pensions!
Posts: 32,146
Jun 21, 2022, 1:46 pm
#276
Join Date: Nov 2017
Posts: 389
Been on a flight twice with said lady. Both times she was traveling with her PA, eating some nut mix. Picked up both the times whilst we waited.
Not much of a delay really at all for the rest of us and probably best all round she that she uses a car to pick her up, rather than go through the 'normal' channels.
Not much of a delay really at all for the rest of us and probably best all round she that she uses a car to pick her up, rather than go through the 'normal' channels.
Jun 21, 2022, 3:33 pm
#277
Join Date: May 2022
Posts: 501
Fair point. If you have the money to pay for extra services and all the bells and whistles that come with it, by all means go ahead. DYKWIA is all about people wanting those services without paying/being entitled to them not the people that actually do pay and actually are entitled
Jun 21, 2022, 3:52 pm
#278
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: London
Programs: BA BLUE BADGE
Posts: 1,324
Fair point. If you have the money to pay for extra services and all the bells and whistles that come with it, by all means go ahead. DYKWIA is all about people wanting those services without paying/being entitled to them not the people that actually do pay and actually are entitled
Let's move on to more deserving cases.
Jun 22, 2022, 12:04 am
#279
Join Date: Jul 2009
Programs: BA Gold GUF Thai Airways Royal Orchid
Posts: 486
Who's Rachel?
Jun 27, 2022, 7:57 pm
#280
Join Date: Nov 2017
Posts: 1,197
In Milan airport waiting for check-in to open when I noticed that three very expensive looking bags were stacked up right next to the check-in desk. Thought nothing of it until the very concerned looking agent called for the police to come and deal with them (she first asked everyone around if they were their bags).
~15 mins passed and a very large, and slight tetchy queue is starting to form. Still no sign of the police, so the agent goes hunting.
After 5 or so minutes she finds a lady who is off with an airport agent wrapping 10+ suitcases. Said lady walks her over to her bags, squares up to me, states that she is first in the queue, and that I will wait for her. I say "OK...", and then can't stop the giggles... important lady is less than impressed. A few minutes later the agent apologises to me, and says that as the woman had been there since early this morning the agent would deal with her first. I shrug, and start chatting with others in the queue.
Long story short, the queen of the queues has failed to sort out the necessary passes, so is moved off to one side anyway. She then turns up late to the gate, and screams at a staff member because the bus left without her. When she finally makes it to the plane, she does the walk of shame right into cattle class.
Utterly bizarre. I'll be honest, she looked like she could have bought and sold the airline, and certainly acted like it. God knows what she was doing in economy.
~15 mins passed and a very large, and slight tetchy queue is starting to form. Still no sign of the police, so the agent goes hunting.
After 5 or so minutes she finds a lady who is off with an airport agent wrapping 10+ suitcases. Said lady walks her over to her bags, squares up to me, states that she is first in the queue, and that I will wait for her. I say "OK...", and then can't stop the giggles... important lady is less than impressed. A few minutes later the agent apologises to me, and says that as the woman had been there since early this morning the agent would deal with her first. I shrug, and start chatting with others in the queue.
Long story short, the queen of the queues has failed to sort out the necessary passes, so is moved off to one side anyway. She then turns up late to the gate, and screams at a staff member because the bus left without her. When she finally makes it to the plane, she does the walk of shame right into cattle class.
Utterly bizarre. I'll be honest, she looked like she could have bought and sold the airline, and certainly acted like it. God knows what she was doing in economy.
Jun 28, 2022, 1:43 am
#281
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 107
In Milan airport waiting for check-in to open when I noticed that three very expensive looking bags were stacked up right next to the check-in desk. Thought nothing of it until the very concerned looking agent called for the police to come and deal with them (she first asked everyone around if they were their bags).
~15 mins passed and a very large, and slight tetchy queue is starting to form. Still no sign of the police, so the agent goes hunting.
After 5 or so minutes she finds a lady who is off with an airport agent wrapping 10+ suitcases. Said lady walks her over to her bags, squares up to me, states that she is first in the queue, and that I will wait for her. I say "OK...", and then can't stop the giggles... important lady is less than impressed. A few minutes later the agent apologises to me, and says that as the woman had been there since early this morning the agent would deal with her first. I shrug, and start chatting with others in the queue.
Long story short, the queen of the queues has failed to sort out the necessary passes, so is moved off to one side anyway. She then turns up late to the gate, and screams at a staff member because the bus left without her. When she finally makes it to the plane, she does the walk of shame right into cattle class.
Utterly bizarre. I'll be honest, she looked like she could have bought and sold the airline, and certainly acted like it. God knows what she was doing in economy.
~15 mins passed and a very large, and slight tetchy queue is starting to form. Still no sign of the police, so the agent goes hunting.
After 5 or so minutes she finds a lady who is off with an airport agent wrapping 10+ suitcases. Said lady walks her over to her bags, squares up to me, states that she is first in the queue, and that I will wait for her. I say "OK...", and then can't stop the giggles... important lady is less than impressed. A few minutes later the agent apologises to me, and says that as the woman had been there since early this morning the agent would deal with her first. I shrug, and start chatting with others in the queue.
Long story short, the queen of the queues has failed to sort out the necessary passes, so is moved off to one side anyway. She then turns up late to the gate, and screams at a staff member because the bus left without her. When she finally makes it to the plane, she does the walk of shame right into cattle class.
Utterly bizarre. I'll be honest, she looked like she could have bought and sold the airline, and certainly acted like it. God knows what she was doing in economy.
As the saying goes “all fur coat and no knickers”
Jun 28, 2022, 2:03 am
#282
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: London
Programs: KLM, BA Silver, Etihad
Posts: 918
Jul 14, 2022, 1:46 am
#283
Join Date: Aug 2019
Location: The Blackwater Valley (Berkshire/Hampshire/Surrey border area)
Programs: BAEC Silver, Hilton Gold, Bonvoy Gold, IHG Diamond, etc etc
Posts: 199
Probably the two men who pushed past me at JFK a couple of days again when boarding. One said to the other 'we're group one so get on first'. I was also group one.
One then repeatedly hit me with his backpack he was wearing on the bus from the plane at LHR and seemed annoyed that I didn't move to accommodate it.
One then repeatedly hit me with his backpack he was wearing on the bus from the plane at LHR and seemed annoyed that I didn't move to accommodate it.
... who are therefore the last to get OFF the bus and up the steps.
Jul 14, 2022, 1:50 am
#284
Join Date: Feb 2003
Programs: Sir CT-UK - Streaker pour les autres.
Posts: 5,901
Not if you get on the first door then tuck yourself by the window in front of it you aren't....
Jul 14, 2022, 1:52 am
#285
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Yorkshire
Programs: BAEC
Posts: 355
