When did you begin to suspect you were flying NW a little too much?
Dec 18, 2008, 9:08 am
#16
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: DCA
Posts: 3,395
One time I helped a complete newbie through an IDB at DCA. The GA (who I have had problems with in the past at DCA) was trying to force him to take a VDB for $300 ECV. He ended up walking away with $400 in cash. I felt like I had done my good deed for the day.
Dec 18, 2008, 9:18 am
#17
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: SJC/SFO
Programs: DL DM MM (fmr NW Plat), BA GGL/CCR, Aegean Gold, WorldClubs Life, SPG Plat, Hyatt Plat, HHonors Dmnd
Posts: 1,409
When someone calls you on the phone and asks you if your priority baggage came out near the front this time.
Dec 18, 2008, 10:17 am
#18
Join Date: Jan 2005
Posts: 8,884
This one has a few obvious answers for me, but I'll go with this:
I've stopped using a scratch pad for "To-Do" lists or grocery lists and instead just write notes on the back of used boarding passes.
Although this will slowly change as I'm able to use more and more electronic boarding passes.
I've stopped using a scratch pad for "To-Do" lists or grocery lists and instead just write notes on the back of used boarding passes.
Although this will slowly change as I'm able to use more and more electronic boarding passes.
Dec 18, 2008, 11:04 am
#19
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: DTW
Programs: NW Platinum Elite, *Wood Platinum, HHonors Diamond, Hertz PC, National Exec Elite
Posts: 1,644
I knew I was flying NW too much when I flew to MSP one weekend to meet with fellow FT'ers to talk about chartering a NW 747 to fly around for the day.
Dec 18, 2008, 11:19 am
#20
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: CLT
Programs: AA EP, AA AC
Posts: 4,268
For me, it was a conversation with a World Vacations person when they started asking me if I was a travel agent because I knew "fare code" speak.LOL Safe Travels.
Dec 18, 2008, 12:40 pm
#21
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: CMH
Programs: Delta Gold Medallion
Posts: 628
Back in 2004-2005, when I was just a "normal" WorldPerks member, I actually found and purchased a large container of Spinzels. If that isn't a sign, I don't know what is.
Dec 18, 2008, 1:25 pm
#23
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Here there everywhere
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In YOW when the agents would ask me if my upgrade cleared a week earlier or that they were looking forward to seeing me the following week.
Or in SFO (with Delta though) where I don't even need to give my name, flight or destinationt to the check-in agents.
Or in SFO (with Delta though) where I don't even need to give my name, flight or destinationt to the check-in agents.
Dec 18, 2008, 2:01 pm
#24
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: MSN/HOU
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Posts: 1,107
Dec 18, 2008, 2:07 pm
#25
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: You have to ask?
Programs: AA EXP 2MM
Posts: 1,102
Dec 18, 2008, 2:45 pm
#26
FlyerTalk Evangelist & Ambassador: China
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: DEN
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I'm not sure if this is a you're flying on NWA too much thread or FT too much, but when you start talking in airline/FT talk (i.e. EUA, UG, WL, FC, Y, F, BUMP, GA, TA, FA, etc) and they just give you wierd looks and laugh.
Dec 18, 2008, 5:32 pm
#27
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Nashville
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Posts: 6,187
Where do I start? Was it when the agents at my home airport said they would just "trust me" for my China visa? Or when I started asking agents about which crew members would serve which section of BF? When an agent at PVG started recognizing me by name? All I know is that for me it is the people that made the red tail the best way to cross the Pacific.
Dec 18, 2008, 5:43 pm
#28
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Dec 18, 2008, 5:59 pm
#29
FlyerTalk Evangelist
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: LAX/BOS/HKG/AMS/SFO...hmm, I need a life.
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Boarding at MHT on the pm DTW flight with 2 colleagues and the GA says to me "Mr AvidFlyer you have a great flight and we will see you next week". Colleagues look at me in the Jetway and say "you're kidding right? They know you by name and when your next flight is?!" Then as we sit down in 1A/B/C a Bloody Mary is placed on my console and the FA (who I now know very well) says "I figured it was the usual". Colleagues bust out laughing...yea I think that was when I realized...that or my second set of SWU's!
Dec 18, 2008, 6:00 pm
#30
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Location: LAX/BOS/HKG/AMS/SFO...hmm, I need a life.
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