DYKWIA Master Thread???
Aug 17, 2014, 12:31 pm
#76
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Northern Germany
Programs: *A Gold (LH SEN), Hertz 5*
Posts: 128
Had a weird story on my flight yesterday EWR - FRA in eco.
I didnt get all the details, but basically there was a couple - girl on the window seat, guy on the middle seat - and both of them were reluctant to sit in the middle seat. The lady on the aisle seat was (understandably) also not willing to swap.
It got so bad, that the FA was asking someone else to let the guy from the couple sit in his seat (emergency exit window) and sit in the free middle seat next to his seat, just so we could taxi and take off.
Airborne, the whole discussion went on for about 30 min, the couple apparently wanted to be upgraded and whatnot... which they were not, of course.
At the end I think they managed to get him a seat somewhere in the back of the plane.
I was impressed how calm the FAs and purser stayed. I myself got so annoyed by these ignorant people! Get C tickets if you can't stand eco.
I didnt get all the details, but basically there was a couple - girl on the window seat, guy on the middle seat - and both of them were reluctant to sit in the middle seat. The lady on the aisle seat was (understandably) also not willing to swap.
It got so bad, that the FA was asking someone else to let the guy from the couple sit in his seat (emergency exit window) and sit in the free middle seat next to his seat, just so we could taxi and take off.
Airborne, the whole discussion went on for about 30 min, the couple apparently wanted to be upgraded and whatnot... which they were not, of course.
At the end I think they managed to get him a seat somewhere in the back of the plane.
I was impressed how calm the FAs and purser stayed. I myself got so annoyed by these ignorant people! Get C tickets if you can't stand eco.
Aug 18, 2014, 3:39 am
#77
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: OSL/IAH/ZRH (time, not preference)
Programs: UA1K, LH GM, AA EXP->GM
Posts: 38,265
Hey! This is the age of entitlement - our ancestors have been oppressed, we construed ourselves as an exploited minority, nicely inflated the DYKWIA .. so where is our overdue upgrade?
Aug 18, 2014, 3:30 pm
#79
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Northern Germany
Programs: *A Gold (LH SEN), Hertz 5*
Posts: 128
Yeah, I kinda have that problem as well.
But except for some efforts here or there to get an op-up, I accept my fate and don't discomfort a 5-row radius of peaceful pax and FAs with my bourgeois poverty and a futile attemp to rage against the barbarous system of airlines that stack the Y-ers like livestock...
But except for some efforts here or there to get an op-up, I accept my fate and don't discomfort a 5-row radius of peaceful pax and FAs with my bourgeois poverty and a futile attemp to rage against the barbarous system of airlines that stack the Y-ers like livestock...
Aug 19, 2014, 10:57 pm
#81
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: OSL/IAH/ZRH (time, not preference)
Programs: UA1K, LH GM, AA EXP->GM
Posts: 38,265
That is so yesterday! Haven't you learned from the success of the civil rights movements and feminism? Outgunning has been entirely replaced by outwhining! The one with the better victim story will grab the cake.
Dec 10, 2014, 4:35 am
#82
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: HEL
Programs: *G, used to be with TK but left due to their corruption and political ties
Posts: 4,406
UEFA
Though not LH I thought this Star Alliance flight might fit here.
I was third in an orderly line of about 15 people for business class boarding (economy had another queue) on TK OTP-IST a few weeks ago. The people in the queue looked like they were in the right queue, ie. dressed in business clothes.
Boarding was just about to start when an older gentleman in a jacket with UEFA-logo skips past the queue to the front. I ask him to go to the back to which he responds that he is in business class. I point out that we are all in the right queue and that he should go stand in the back. He doesn't want to but instead squeezes in behind me.
I guess he had been involved in the Romania - Northern Ireland game the day before. UEFA too influnced by FIFA perhaps?
I was third in an orderly line of about 15 people for business class boarding (economy had another queue) on TK OTP-IST a few weeks ago. The people in the queue looked like they were in the right queue, ie. dressed in business clothes.
Boarding was just about to start when an older gentleman in a jacket with UEFA-logo skips past the queue to the front. I ask him to go to the back to which he responds that he is in business class. I point out that we are all in the right queue and that he should go stand in the back. He doesn't want to but instead squeezes in behind me.
I guess he had been involved in the Romania - Northern Ireland game the day before. UEFA too influnced by FIFA perhaps?
Dec 10, 2014, 4:31 pm
#84
Join Date: Sep 2007
Programs: BAEC, M&L, Bonvoy
Posts: 1,339
Actually, I'm taking another approach. Coming late to gate (when boarding is well underway), sitting down until all the queues are empty, then wait another minute or two for jetway to clear and then board.
This is the ultimate DYKWIA
This is the ultimate DYKWIA
Dec 11, 2014, 2:10 am
#85
Join Date: Aug 2005
Programs: UA*G(1K), PC Diamond Amb, Marriott Titanium, Accor Platinum
Posts: 4,671
HTB.
Dec 11, 2014, 2:19 am
#86
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Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: London
Programs: Hilton, IHG - BA, GA, LH, QR, SV, TK
Posts: 17,008
That wait is an important feature - very uncool to run into the back of the jetway queue.
Dec 11, 2014, 4:52 am
#87
Join Date: Oct 2004
Programs: LH HON
Posts: 3,421
Dec 11, 2014, 6:48 am
#90
Join Date: Nov 2008
Programs: Disgruntled HON**, Indifferent EK Gold, skeptical BA Silver
Posts: 1,734
So I do the same as you and always wait for the final boarding call. If there is still a queue at the gate, I wait until that is dissolved.
If there is still a queue in the jet way, I will handover my bp but then sit down again and wait until its cleared.