Somewhen in 1990 I did buy a boklet written by GEORGE ALBERT BROWN "THE AIRLINE PASSENGER'S GEURILLA HANDBOOK" "STRATEGIES & TACTICS FOR BEATING THE AIR TRAVEL SYSTEM", The Blakes Publishing Group, Washington DC, ISBN 0-924022-04-3, 1989, and on my following flights back to Switzerland I did read it trough like I do it now with John Grisham's books, without closing my eyes = 396 pages.

It deals with everything a flyer could possibly think of. Even with topics I will never try out (I promise) like "the ethics of getting your extra bags on the plane", "how to deal with Hare Krishnas at airports", "smuggling a garment bag past the gate", "what to do when you get caught sneaking your extra bag on", "how to ride to the plane on a transporter", "how to pick up sex objects on the plane", "the best ways to make love in an airplane", "tricks on an Inveterate Casual Smuggler", "taking advantage of the Psychology of the Average Customs Officer", "how you or your estate can collect big bucks through the loopholes in the airline's limitation on liability", "a possible way to double the abolute liability limit", etc, etc, ...

The book may/will be outdated under many aspects, and I didn't look into it for more than 6 years now.

But if you want, I will go trough this book and give you on a daily basis a tip out of it (I hope not to get into conflict with any copy-rights that way).

This book sounds great, and your offer to give us a piece of it on a regular basis is also great.

Amazon's answer on my search today: Availability: This title is out of print. Although it is no longer available from the publisher, we'll query our network of used bookstores for you and send an update within one to two weeks.

I did ask them to search for some "used" books - and some of you may get it as a X-MAS-present (I'll let you know here under "Introduction").

And Catman: thanks for your advice. I just got online the permission for brief quotations.

Rudi, I have to sneak an extra person into the Concorde/First lounge at LHR tomorrow at 2.30pm - three of use are travelling, and I can only have one guest - any tips on how to get past the ever vigulent BA Lounge Police?
I thought about just smiling and being nice, but BA staff are getting hardend to that old ruse. I think they must be on a bonus for everyone they refuse entry too!

I've just realised, if the BA Secret Police read this I will have tipped them off. They will double the patrols, let the dogs out of the kennel, reinforce the barbed-wire. I'm doomed to failure.
Oh well, I'll have to resort top plan B. Enter the Club/Executive Lounge, walk down the connecting corridor where the toilets are and walk in the Concorde/First lounge as if we have just been to 'freshen-up'.
I'm OK to divuldge this trick, as the BA Secret Police only read the first paragraph of each posting before getting bored!
I suppose I could just ask them for access - but that ruins the fun!!
MERRY FLYER

PS: My next posting may be from the BA Boot-Camp!

Enter twice (allow a 3 minutes waiting-time in between).

Your first guest goes to the lounge, yourself to the washroom and out you go again to look for your second guest.

more tips:

at check-in, explain your situation, you might get a supplementary voucher for the
Lounge

In the lounge, (or if their is some quee at the lounge-entrance ask already there) ask
another member (who sits there alone,) to get your second guest in

wear diffent things when you enter twice: first with raincoat, second without etc.

just for Swiss-german-dialect-speaking-persons (but may be it could work with some
cockney too): just deny any "Oxford-"english-knowledge, I sometimes can't speak but
Swiss-german - and may be they give up.

Merry

- don't you have those coveted black luggage labels? Won't the BA staff swoon and do your slightest bidding?

I think the bathroom trick is probably the best way of sneaking them in. Or you could ask. I found, when I was working with BA, that their staff are generally quite helpful but can be firm about rules: don't ask when anyone else is listening, & they may be willing to make an exception for you.

Gatwick is friendlier than Heathrow...

This club room "beat the system" collection of tricks sounds like something out of
James Bond's next advernture "FlyerMAN."

Or a great comedy-drama to be written about
the adventures of the frequent flyer traveler.

I'll have to try a few of these ideas sometime. CATMAN

ok Catman - next time we meet in New York (at the renovated breakfast-room) we start a joint-venture: you'll bring in the journalistic-news-writing-knowhow (and the english-knowhow) and I'll bring in some crazy ff-adventures (a mixture of Jan Fleming's James Bond and "in 89 days around the world").

OK, as I am on a role now, I am going to reveal my favorite tip for getting anything you want out of BA Staff (upgrades are a piece of cake with this trick, ditto Lounge Access, extra baggage etc).

All you do is engage the appropriate member of staff in conversation and mention that Bob Ayling (BA's CEO) is not a very nice man (for legal reasons I will not give you exact examples, but I'm sure you get the message...).

BA staff are so unhappy with his 'virtual airline' scheme that they will furtively look 'round to check the BA Secret Police are not in ear-shot and agree with you, give you a big smile and you are friends for life. Then your made, your wish is their command.

Try it and let me know how you get on!

Another tip: Don't mention the new liveries (Yuck!) they are really sick of hearing about that! But mentioning that the CEO's colour (CATMAN read: color)blindness must be a real hadicap.

Oh, I'm gunna have a ball at Heathrow this afternoon. That is of course assuming I can manouver myself with all disguises Rudi wants me to take.
MERRY FLYER

PS: Don't try this at Moscow airport!!

Thanks for your clever tips, Merry Flyer.
I don't think I would try ANY of these tips
at Moscow or Prague or Budapest or Romania
Or Sofia or especially Beijing (I was harassed by no fewer than 55 cabbies. Although ride cheap, I don't like pressure.)

And in NYC maybe if you try these tips you
will be shipped out immediately. You know,
Mayor Rudy (not RUDI) Giuliani's "quality of
Life" campaign! CATMAN

I'm bringing this topic forward because I was able to obtain a few copies of this book after reding on Flyertalk that folks could not find copies anywhere, so if anyone is interested in obtaining a copy, e-mail me at [email protected] .

some guerilla tip links from this book http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/Forum...ML/000125.html

One thing I must agree on is the weird guest limit (unless immediate family).

I have gotten around it so many times with the clubs I go to regurarly... also the leaving and coming back in, especially when they are very busy, works well..

Question for *Alliance members.. does the immediate family rule work in other *Lounges. IE, I am traveling with my wife and 2 fictious (do not exist yet, but hopefully they will) kids. Will they let all 4 of us in....

Thanks!