DYKWIA | 2022 edition
Feb 8, 2022, 7:22 am
#31
Join Date: Feb 2020
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The main issue is that camera lens (especially so ones with several elements) show up "dark" in the X-ray, obscuring things behind it. In an otherwise empty carrying case, you probably wouldn't have anyone remove them separately, but in a big carry-on which is a mess with cables etc, it would give the screener a hard time to make out. It also depends on the angle, "lying horizontally" makes the lens easier to look through, whereas if you have them in a case where the lens are "upright", the X-ray has a hard time going through multiple lens elements. Hope that makes sense!
Feb 8, 2022, 10:18 am
#32
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Wrong topic 😱
Last edited by Tobias-UK; Feb 8, 2022 at 10:36 am
Feb 9, 2022, 2:40 am
#33
Join Date: Sep 2010
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I've had security personnel at many German airports watch me take lenses out, and tell me to put them back in the bag, only for the guy at the end to then admonish me for not removing them. It's not a rare occurrence either. I've asked teh guy at the start are they sure, and get told, yes put them back in - taking them out takes more time.
Feb 9, 2022, 4:30 am
#34
Join Date: Nov 2004
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German security used to be by far the worst of securities I went through, way back before everyone cracked down. Shoes off, laptops open, powered on to show they weren't fake. Levels of checks not done nowadays. But if your laptop was out of battery then it wasn't going through with you. Lockerbie seemed to make them ultra careful about everything.
Feb 9, 2022, 4:41 am
#35
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I keep coming here expecting to read some juicy DYKWIA tale but despite seeing new posts there's not a DYKWIA in sight 
Feb 9, 2022, 5:46 am
#37
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Gloucestershire
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I'll chuck one in, although with the caveat that the DYKWIA was delivered with some grace.
Flying out to Madrid in the front row of economy on an Iberia A330 at the middle doors, practically last to board was a floppy haired, older gentleman who looked around the economy cabin with some confusion and, in the manner of J R Hartley, asked if there might be an upgrade as he was a Premier with British Airways and it was all the same company.
The cabin crew was utterly bemused by this nice old chap but did help him find his seat, and, quickly realising that, while BA would definitely KWHI, Iberia was truly clueless, he let it drop immediately and went to his seat a few rows back.
Flying out to Madrid in the front row of economy on an Iberia A330 at the middle doors, practically last to board was a floppy haired, older gentleman who looked around the economy cabin with some confusion and, in the manner of J R Hartley, asked if there might be an upgrade as he was a Premier with British Airways and it was all the same company.
The cabin crew was utterly bemused by this nice old chap but did help him find his seat, and, quickly realising that, while BA would definitely KWHI, Iberia was truly clueless, he let it drop immediately and went to his seat a few rows back.
Feb 9, 2022, 6:08 am
#38
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I'll chuck one in, although with the caveat that the DYKWIA was delivered with some grace.
Flying out to Madrid in the front row of economy on an Iberia A330 at the middle doors, practically last to board was a floppy haired, older gentleman who looked around the economy cabin with some confusion and, in the manner of J R Hartley, asked if there might be an upgrade as he was a Premier with British Airways and it was all the same company.
The cabin crew was utterly bemused by this nice old chap but did help him find his seat, and, quickly realising that, while BA would definitely KWHI, Iberia was truly clueless, he let it drop immediately and went to his seat a few rows back.
Flying out to Madrid in the front row of economy on an Iberia A330 at the middle doors, practically last to board was a floppy haired, older gentleman who looked around the economy cabin with some confusion and, in the manner of J R Hartley, asked if there might be an upgrade as he was a Premier with British Airways and it was all the same company.
The cabin crew was utterly bemused by this nice old chap but did help him find his seat, and, quickly realising that, while BA would definitely KWHI, Iberia was truly clueless, he let it drop immediately and went to his seat a few rows back.
Feb 9, 2022, 6:14 am
#39
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Gloucestershire
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I think this was definitely a case of someone using "who he was" to try to get a better seat: in that sense, it was a DYKWIA move, but without the associated personality type of the people who are confused as to their own status (in the non-marketing sense of the word) and who tend to use the strategy. Instead, it was someone that BA at least definitely does care about.
Feb 9, 2022, 9:05 am
#40
Join Date: Dec 2013
Location: Glasgow
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I'll chuck one in, although with the caveat that the DYKWIA was delivered with some grace.
Flying out to Madrid in the front row of economy on an Iberia A330 at the middle doors, practically last to board was a floppy haired, older gentleman who looked around the economy cabin with some confusion and, in the manner of J R Hartley, asked if there might be an upgrade as he was a Premier with British Airways and it was all the same company.
The cabin crew was utterly bemused by this nice old chap but did help him find his seat, and, quickly realising that, while BA would definitely KWHI, Iberia was truly clueless, he let it drop immediately and went to his seat a few rows back.
Flying out to Madrid in the front row of economy on an Iberia A330 at the middle doors, practically last to board was a floppy haired, older gentleman who looked around the economy cabin with some confusion and, in the manner of J R Hartley, asked if there might be an upgrade as he was a Premier with British Airways and it was all the same company.
The cabin crew was utterly bemused by this nice old chap but did help him find his seat, and, quickly realising that, while BA would definitely KWHI, Iberia was truly clueless, he let it drop immediately and went to his seat a few rows back.
Feb 10, 2022, 1:45 am
#43
Join Date: Jun 2019
Programs: BA Gold, EI, VS
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MAN security is the gift that just keeps on giving, isn't it? Flew MAN-CPH last week but I think this time I was the one at fault.
Note to self: remove dog whistle from keys before travelling as it shows up like a bullet
Note to self: remove dog whistle from keys before travelling as it shows up like a bullet
Last edited by allycat53; Feb 10, 2022 at 7:34 am Reason: crop photo
Feb 10, 2022, 4:34 am
#44
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: living near Malaga
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I once emailed a photo of a similar key to a locksmith who cut it for me and posted it back. I suggest you blur your image.
Feb 12, 2022, 4:56 am
#45
Join Date: Jul 2017
Programs: Mucci Chevalier des Internautes Amables; BAEC
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Flying is back!
Anyone on this London-Turin flight last week? I wouldn’t want to cast aspersions, but I suspect this was more than polite reasonable requests if the pilot did indeed turn the plane around from taxiing. Either way, I do get some slight comfort that flying is well and truly back if actual DYKWIAs are happening. It’s been a while… (apologies for paywall)
Lawyer removed from plane in row over nanny being bumped to economy
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0...de6a5bed1ede3d
Lawyer removed from plane in row over nanny being bumped to economy
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0...de6a5bed1ede3d