zitsky

A "Dr" is upset because she was referred to as "Miss" on a Qantas flight. I think most PhD's have inflated egos but would a male PhD be called Dr or Mr.? Does she have a point?

Dave Noble

If a passenger makes a booking and uses the honorific of Dr when making the booking, that person has a reasonable expectation that will be referred to so as such

Is the person's rant actually serious, it looks like the person was reusing the quote from one of the Austin power movies

Platy

Just because someone uses a title in booking doesn't mean that all the airline staff that interact with that passenger must use said title!

Coverage in the media seems to indicate the woman was serious and attempting to make a point about gender equality...

...if the passenger next to her was male and had an honorific title that was used by the cabin crew, she might have a point...

...problem is, her claim assumes that the crew member was being wantonly sexist...

...hopefully there are more important things to worry about in such situations, such as whether the crew member is fit and competent to effect an evacuation or respond to some other safety or emergency situation...

...one also hopes that the passenger had spent years of study for a better purpose than stroking her ego by insisting folk around her use the title of "Dr".

...your academic qualifications are hardly relevant in the context of air travel, now are they (unless you have medical expertise to share during an in flight medical event)?!

...oh the perils of status anxiety in the modern world...

FWIW I much prefer that people use my christian name - and many crew do just that after a courtesy "do you ind if I call you Platy" - maybe I travel too much on VA!

Dave Noble

If this was just a twit sending out something on twitter to people she knows, I am more inclined to think she was just copying and it just started getting sent further by other twits on twitter

If someone had a genuine complaint, I would suspect that they would try and address it directly in the 1st instance

I somehow don't think that this is entirely a serious complaint but a joke that went out of hand

zitsky

Oh, she is quite serious. I have a master's degree (MBA) so I want to be called Master (or Emperor) from now on. How well do you think that will work?

trooper

The other academic quoted doesn't seem to notice the irony of her calling a Flight Attendant a "Trolley Dolly" WHILE insisting SHE be addressed correctly..... Bet she's fun at parties....Gawd.

Dave Noble

If you are under 18, then no problems

Did she address the person as trolley dolly or just refer to it in the twit message

mannej

I wonder if the first Dr called her out for her hypocrisy? The irony of the terminology used isn't lost on me.

Gig103

Who remembers the movie Spies Like Us?

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LondonElite

Dave Noble

I suppose there has to have been one once

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Platy

My brain hurts.....

LondonElite

The BA board is very witty, but doesn't suffer fools lightly.

Anyway, you may find this amusing:

I didn't spend 6 years in Evil Medical School to be called *Mr* Evil.

JamesKidd

The thing with PhD Docs is that they get enough of you're not a real doctor anyways. When there is a request for doctor, you know the PhD have to keep schtum. This creates a chip on their shoulder after hearing about it day in day out.