Flyertalk Luggage Tags WORK! - Encountering Flyertalk Members Unexpectedly
Jun 2, 2009, 12:25 pm
#406
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: America's Finest City
Posts: 10,944
Yesterday I was waiting at the gate in LAX for the prop plane to SAN when a very tired mileage runner also from America's finest city spotted my luggage tag. And he'd been in Oz when Palal and the rest of our pack were and somehow never found us! Or vice versa 
. I got his real name so I can invite him to our next local do.
. I got his real name so I can invite him to our next local do.
Jun 4, 2009, 4:42 pm
#407
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: NY by birth, BNA by choice - soon YXE, the SKY by virtue.
Posts: 2,420
As is my usual MO during a layover, I was sitting outside the WorldClub (or SkyClub...blech) in DTW with my FlyerTalk tag visible on my laptop bag. Typically I'm there to leech the wifi since I sadly don't have a membership of my own, or if a generous FT comes along and invites me in.
Well, who comes along but none other than the (in)famous Spiff! He was heading to his gate to check bump opportunities, but on his way back, he brought me along into the lounge.
So far, the only two instances where I've been "spotted" have been while sitting outside the WorldClub like a lost puppy - not that I'm complaining, but here's hoping that I have many more "spotted" experiences, varied in nature.
Well, who comes along but none other than the (in)famous Spiff! He was heading to his gate to check bump opportunities, but on his way back, he brought me along into the lounge.
So far, the only two instances where I've been "spotted" have been while sitting outside the WorldClub like a lost puppy - not that I'm complaining, but here's hoping that I have many more "spotted" experiences, varied in nature.
Jun 7, 2009, 5:38 am
#409
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Bloomington IN
Posts: 882
Mileage run weekend. Frantic call by Mrs JJ to the psychiatrist does not stop the insanity. Friday 6/5 I share the F cabin on UA 137 to SFO with Pio007 and we chat during deplaning.
Saturday 6/6, I stagger off the 6AM United ORD-IND and while looking for the connecting gates yellow FT tags send me back to a semi-reality. dhammer53 is returning from his MR and is returning to Brooklyn via LGA. We talk for a while in the terminal before both continue what FT's do best -- earn miles.
Saturday 6/6, I stagger off the 6AM United ORD-IND and while looking for the connecting gates yellow FT tags send me back to a semi-reality. dhammer53 is returning from his MR and is returning to Brooklyn via LGA. We talk for a while in the terminal before both continue what FT's do best -- earn miles.
Last edited by JerseyJoe; Jun 7, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Jun 7, 2009, 10:49 am
#410
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Sep 2000
Programs: UA Million Miler (lite). NY Metro area.
Posts: 15,104
After I left JerseyJoe, I headed to the escalator headed for the B gates.
Half way down the escalator is AAU (?) with a luggage tag dangling off his bag.
Back-to-back sightings.
dh
Half way down the escalator is AAU (?) with a luggage tag dangling off his bag.
Back-to-back sightings.
dh
Jun 13, 2009, 6:32 am
#412
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Sydney, Australia
Programs: VA Gold, UA, SPG Gold, HH Diamond, Marriott Gold, IHG Ambassador
Posts: 3,644
Jun 16, 2009, 3:51 am
#413
Join Date: May 2009
Location: USA
Programs: UAL 1MM, Marriott Plat, Hyatt Globalist, AA 3MM
Posts: 831
Yesterday I was waiting at the gate in LAX for the prop plane to SAN when a very tired mileage runner also from America's finest city spotted my luggage tag. And he'd been in Oz when Palal and the rest of our pack were and somehow never found us! Or vice versa . I got his real name so I can invite him to our next local do.
. I got his real name so I can invite him to our next local do.
Jun 16, 2009, 1:39 pm
#414
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: America's Finest City
Posts: 10,944
Jul 9, 2009, 8:55 am
#416
Join Date: Sep 2008
Posts: 11
Should there be a secret handshake upon meeting other FT'ers...
Something incredibly complicated, involving bending, arms under legs, star trek finger combinations and a high five.
This would get all the other passengers curious, and they too will be searching for FlyerTalk.com! hehehe
Something incredibly complicated, involving bending, arms under legs, star trek finger combinations and a high five.
This would get all the other passengers curious, and they too will be searching for FlyerTalk.com! hehehe
Jul 11, 2009, 3:27 pm
#417
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Current Micronesian, Ex Buckeye....
Programs: All My $$$ Went to CO (Plat) with a Lifetime PClub membership that got degraded to United crap...
Posts: 2,089
KosraeTV meet up with GeoFlyer on the IAH to HNL then the next morning the famous Island Hopper Flight.... Funny how things work out...
Jul 12, 2009, 2:56 pm
#418
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: BCN
Programs: BA Gold A3 Gold DL Gold VY apologist
Posts: 8,545
I actually saw my first FT luggage tag yesterday, in the overhead of a LX flight ZRH-BCN, about row 3. I meant to ask about it after the flight but fell so soundly asleep that I forgot on my way out. Now I'll never know. 
Of course I wonder what the big idea of an FTer visiting BCN without looking me up for a drink is, so maybe it's all for the best.
Edited to add: a little bird just IMed me on FB to tell me who it was and it turns out I do know him and do in fact owe him a drink! What a small world.
Of course I wonder what the big idea of an FTer visiting BCN without looking me up for a drink is, so maybe it's all for the best.
Edited to add: a little bird just IMed me on FB to tell me who it was and it turns out I do know him and do in fact owe him a drink! What a small world.
Last edited by alanw; Jul 12, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Jul 18, 2009, 1:30 pm
#420
Join Date: May 2006
Programs: AA PLT
Posts: 283
I've been sporting Flyertalk tags on my bags for several years and never had anyone remark on them.....until July 1st on Amtrak, going MKE-CHI. 
He didn't tell me his flyertalk handle, just noticed my tags and said that he reads here sometimes.
He didn't tell me his flyertalk handle, just noticed my tags and said that he reads here sometimes.