how to behave after you've been upgraded
 

Warning: you may find this amusing. I don't think the author flies very often.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/tr...ul-flight.html

how to behave after you've been upgraded
 

Your right

there are some very strange writings in media, PR, etc. worst is PR when it sounds like PR person has zero experience with industry, let alone product.

how to behave after you've been upgraded
 

Best opening line in the Mail EVER:

"I'm often accused of being elitist"

No need to read any further!

Amusing. :)

The only wrinkle is that while the ground crew *does* occasionally issue an upgrade to the Turn Right Class, they typically do it to a frequent flier - someone with elite status in that program. I might be rocking my velour tracksuit, but if I'm the ranking elite in steerage and they need to bump one up, I'm getting it long before the GA gets to evaluate my fashion sense. (The article seems to reinforce that pre-FFP notion that people in suits get upgraded.)

Also, the "treat the FA better" part seems to indicate it's okay to be a total d*ck to the FA if you're sitting in Y. I don't agree with that...

It may be your right, but it's my left.

Back on topic, from an American point of view, the article is meaningless as the whole flying game is about upgrades. However, along with the small planes, upgrading in America still generally involves turning right, in the literal sense and in the metaphorical sense. Which, of course, is why "First Class" is really big seat economy class. That is not so much the case elsewhere, where people do behave better in Business Class than in Economy - and get much better service and amenities.

I just wear my F pajamas to the airport so everyone knows that I expect to be upgraded.

When I read this kind of article, I remember the time I joked with two friends that they need to use dress and high heels because flying int'l wasn't the same thing as taking a Greyhound...

I forgot the conversation, some time later they asked me for a ride to the airport for their int'l trip. When I arrived at their house, they were both with heavy make-up, fancy dresses and serious high-heels... It seems they were going to a gala ball, not for a 10-hour trip in Y.

I didn't have the courage to tell them I was joking. OK, it was more than 25 years ago, but still today I felt some gilt about that...

I gotta ask: how often is this a problem? In what region of the world is it likely to happen?

I haven't flown as many of the world's airlines as some FTers, but I've probably flown most of the ones in Star Alliance and Oneworld at one point or another, some in all three cabins. I'm thankful that I haven't personally run across this in my travels. Occasionally a bad apple somewhere...someone who probably would behave badly in any cabin...but never an undercurrent of unruly or unkind behavior across an entire Y cabin.

Maybe I'm naive, but especially when I'm flying an airline where I'm the obvious foreigner, I try to be pleasant to the FA's and other pax regardless of where my seat is. Perhaps I've also been lucky not to be on a lot of flights frequented by large groups of holiday travelers...I suppose those could get rowdy and cross the line into bad behavior after a few cocktails.

Poor little twit doesn't know how to spell "madding" or "lie-flat."

The article appears clearly designed to rouse the rabble in defiance of his prissiness. :rolleyes:

Yeah, a whole lot of cluelessness going on in that article.

I love taking pictures.. Lots of them... That makes me out of place?

I probably fly more premium than the author...

Biatch

Globalist

You don't find it odd when someone begins staging an impromptu photo shoot?

Most of the author's advice can be boiled down to one line: Act like you've been there before.

Then there's his tip about dressing well to increase your chance of an upgrade. That hasn't been true for, what, 20 years now? Folks in the media have been writing it for so long they believe it's still true.

I've seen some prison "wear" that can be passed off as PJs.:rolleyes: