Diver Boy

When the cabin crew asks you what's next when doing a manual demonstration because they have forgotten.

When immigration in Cape Town say welcome home (UK passport) live in UK.

When filling in landing cards need to leave out 2/3's of countries visited in last month due to lack of space.

When you know the summer and winter flight details before they published each year.

When US immigration ask what on earth is your job?

When your colleagues are convinced that you must be 007 due to the amount of countries visited where someone famous dies while you are there each year.

LTN Phobia

This topic was originally posted in the BA forum but moved to TravelBuzz as it is not specific to BA and this is a more suitable home for it.

LTN Phobia
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GSunitedloyal

When by the end of July you have flown 330 PQS

Justin Case

when the flight crew start to send Facebook and LinkedIn invites to connect!

BAW2

when you say to your f/o - "gear's up darling!"

mvitale

...When you're a regular at (not one but) two airport bars.
...In an airport other than your home airport.

...When you get the same room at the hotel every week because you're there so often.

(Related to #2 above)
...When the hotel staff send you Christmas cards.

JY1024

And now merged with our extant thread on this topic. Thanks!

/Moderator

doogie04

Amazing thread!

..because that's the only seat he's flown in the last ten trips. (Mine's 4)

++ the APAC flight comfort over TATL red eyes.

Someone says I think United has a flight from EWR to LHR in the evening. You ratttle off the 4 night flight departure times.

Colleagues at the office say - hadn't seen you in a while, thought you had moved on.

You find out your India visa was expired in India. Then after spending 31 of 33 hours on a plane doing UA82 to India and UA83 back two hours later..you think, not to bad; glad to be home early

You finally realize there is a maximum amount of time you're ok on a plane - for me it was 50 hours in 5 days, sleeping 4 of 5 nights on a plane.

You book book a ticket to Poland forctomorrow (enter number from memory) then while packing realize your passport is at the Chinese embassy. Then think ... really need two of these.

You get up shower & dress for work 4 time zones too early and only realize when hotel breakfast isn't open yet.

Cary your APEC card to use for US entry in case global entry kiosks are down.

You do work org charts with airport codes instead of country names.

You have a collection of pilot thank you business cards.

You have at least one of every amenities kit containers in an unbroken multi year series along with a drawer full of cow shed lib balm.

All your tooth paste is amenities kit size

Your London GS rep calls your cell and says " I know your usually just make your flight but are you caught in that protest outside the airport? I've backed you up on the next flight in case."

RRDD

You get mildly excited when you pull out the in-flight magazine and it's one you haven't read.

mvitale

You get very excited when you find that someone else from FT has already signed in to the in-flight magazine. (Never happened to me, but I imagine that I'd at least be happy upon seeing it.)

Reference: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...3-forward.html

-mvitale

The_Bouncer

You wake up bleary eyed in a hotel room, look at the clock which reads 2:16 and think "is that am or pm?"

The German Bundespolizei start recognising you when they raid the train from Austria.

Your friend asks you when was the last time you spent a whole year in one country, and you can't think when the last time was that you spent 24 hours in one country. (Happened to me yesterday).

One of your three passports lives permanently in the front pocket of the ratty old Nike backpack you carry as the male equivalent of a handbag.

You start speaking to people in the wrong language.

skylady

When you wake up and look to see which cities' posters are on your wall, to check your location

jimmielin

Even happier if you find out that you signed it a couple of flights ago.

Productivity

These are related, only really possible with small airlines. I've got a few of the first for KC and I'm inching closer on the second.

You have flown every plane in an airlines subfleet (ie. all A321s).

You have flown every plane in an airline.

You know what numbers you haven't flown and you get disappointed when it's a different one.

Badenoch

My version of this happened a few years ago when I woke up in a non-descript hotel room and had to check the phone book to find out where I was.