As expected, it gets worse. Cabin crew gets drink order wrong. No grace shown. [Imagine accent and over enunciation, yes really] �I said chab-lis, not cham-pagne.� Honestly cringey. Clearly the drinks order should have been correct but there are ways elegantly to handle these things. No elegance here.

sounds like a real superstar to work with/for

Where on earth did Mr Rude think folks in the middle seats were supposed to put their bags?

I hope the crew spoil you with lots of deliberate greetings and hopefully he'll hear them.

"Ah, welcome back Mr Brightstar100, nice to see you again. Oh, as usual just to confirm your car will be waiting on you on the tarmac when we arrive to get you to the terminal quicker " etc etc.

But surely that is the very definition of a typical American 'reciprocal arrangement'

What a tanker! 😂

I have to admit that once in an almost deserted airport, it was a shock for the other passenger and myself to suddenly discover that there was somebody else in "their" lounge...

or tell them you would offer them a ride but you dont share a ride with anyone

In the words of my young son as he stood up at the end of a recent short flight after having boarded first (with a very impressed me - rare occasion where BA IT got group 0 printed right across 2 bookings) down to the exitish row, then had his head in his ipad the entire time: "wow there are a lot of people in economy!"

Since we're in the DYKWIA thread I suppose I can add another story from his first ever shorthaul trip, LHR-CDG, rather predictably - "daddy where are the beds?" - followed by "but what if I get tired?"

I have actually never mentioned the words business or economy or first or club or anything whatsoever to him, that I can only attribute to my wife's unfailing honesty.

One final story for the day, recently sat in the first row of club and notice the plane had first operating as FLUB, the crew notice me staring forlornly and exclaim "I suppose you're usually up there sir!" drawing a hesitant "ah....yes" from me. They Knew Who I Was and Made Me Admit it!

Did the passenger actually say "chab-lees, not cham-pag-nay"? That would've provided a moment for the crew to correct, ever so politely in the same over-enunciation style, "it's pronounced cha-bli and cham-pain".

Or in the words of my 5-year old then (who likes to faff around with various seat controls as soon as we enter the cabin) also on a shorthaul fight - "something is wrong with my seat, it doesn't go flat!"

Diplomatic immunity, not diplomatic protection. Diplomatic protection is the legal device whereby a sovereign state has discretionary power (but not obligation) to permit one of its nationals (i.e. person or corporation) to access international dispute mechanisms (e.g. international court of justice) that are for sovereign states only: the sovereign state cloaks the national or corporation as if it were the state. This is a rarely used mechanism.

Diplomatic immunity enables an accredited diplomat engaging in the proper conduct of her/his duties to refuse to be searched at airports in the state to which she/he is accredited. Possibly also at other airports in transit, although that latter point is less clear.

Crew should have stared at him blankly and said: "we would ALL prefer for you, to refuse to share a plane with other people! " (ah on their last flight.... one can hope)

Or even� your helicopter will be waiting to take you home to your country estate.

I thought the REALLY important people got to use the BA teleporter?

Mr Brightstar100 is Country Estate, Mr Rude is more Council Estate. 😂