sparklymermaid

I am reading on social media passengers are gifting the flight attendants with $5 Starbucks cards or chocolates. Is this the done thing now? I have not flown for three years.

roblikesplanes

Certainly not seen this on any of the flights I've been on recently.

mikeyfly

Ha! Five bucks won’t get a coffee in most Starbucks now no it’s not “the done thing” but each to their own. Mixed opinions last time this question did the rounds last year … A question for cabin crew re: gifts / chocolates

golfmad

No, certainly not. Especially not on British Airways although we do hear reports of some passengers handing out chocolates to cabin crew. Social media is not particularly representative of the real world.

Camflyer

I was on a CE flight back from TFS over Christmas were one passenger gave the crew a box of chocolates and they distributed them to the Club passengers which was nice of them.

Can I help you

Thank you, but no thank you.

muscat

My taxi driver always expects a tip. Should I tip the pilot?

Fly2Connect

I've given out (sealed) chocolates around the holidays, but that is am the exception, not the rule. It certainly isn't expected (but has always been well received) and I'd guess 99% of passengers don't.

gliderpilot

That's a great comment to annoy and please pilots. On the one hand they love making and saving money but being compared to a taxi driver.... (I stereoetype only slightly!)

Magic01273

I saw the same thing mentioned on a recent BA Facebook ad and honestly... so much cringe. One woman gleefully mentioned how much she loved BA and that she was bringing "StarB cards" for cabin crew and conveniently managed to drop in how much she was looking forward to her flight to [specific destination] on [specific date].

It came across as the most lame attempt at getting an upgrade I've witnessed...and thats saying something, as those FB comments sections are literally teeming with upgrade beggars.

MrsW

We went to Malta for half term. On the outbound I saw two separate passengers handing over goodies to the crew. One gave them two boxes of doughnuts. Bit weird really - is it a bribe? I only saw the crew scoffing the leftovers from the meal service.

orbitmic

Well, today, I have just "gifted" a Golden ticket to the brilliant senior cabin crew on my LCY flight. He went out of his way to make my very short remarkably pleasant and was just great with every other passenger in the CE cabin despite a full flight. I did that after I arrived, and if I remember correctly, he will never know it was from me which is exactly the way it should be.

If you want to thank flight attendants, I suggest you use Golden tickets/ well done. That actually is the done thing (or at any rate what BA has devised as our primary avenue to express gratitude to those who go above and beyond to give us great trips) and I personally find it a lot less awkward than a $5 coffee voucher which could almost come across as slightly patronising even though I@m sure it would be meant in the best possible way.

IJN Harekaze

I would slip a few fivers under the cockpit door in an unmarked envelope as a bribe for finding a shortcut into Heathrow

gliderpilot

At the danger of thread creep, I've seen worse, particualrly one very infamous letter on RAF headed notepaper that was handed to the cabin crew to give to the Captain. Not sure if the letter itself is out there in the public domain but it did enough rounds of social media that they apparntly had to disconnect the associated telephone number and email address!

EuropeanPete

A reminder that a lot of behaviour that’s being normalised on IG and TikTok is often either socially unacceptable, illegal or stupid.