Too polite for GlobalFirst...
Aug 7, 2012, 7:43 am
#46
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Aug 7, 2012, 9:09 am
#47
Join Date: Sep 2010
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I know you don't want compensation, but I feel like a lawsuit is the only just resolution. If possible, we should join classes with the million-miler class action.
After all, why should you be treated with such politeness? If the FA had even peeked at the manifest, she would know to look down her nose at you with the classy, je ne sais quoi-ish respect you've clearly earned.
Obligatory P.S. This would've never happened on the old UA!@$#
After all, why should you be treated with such politeness? If the FA had even peeked at the manifest, she would know to look down her nose at you with the classy, je ne sais quoi-ish respect you've clearly earned.
Obligatory P.S. This would've never happened on the old UA!@$#
Aug 7, 2012, 9:19 am
#48
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: LAX
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it's a bummer to hear that. if she had just come around and said "just wanted to let you know we have water and snacks available here - anything else just let me know and i'll glady get it for you"
i flew to HK a few months ago in Global First, dressed in shorts and tshirt and I look like I am 22 years old and the flight attendant was super nice and didnt say anything like that. i'd feel weird too if she did
i flew to HK a few months ago in Global First, dressed in shorts and tshirt and I look like I am 22 years old and the flight attendant was super nice and didnt say anything like that. i'd feel weird too if she did
Aug 7, 2012, 9:27 am
#49
Join Date: Mar 2009
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I think the FA provided good service, why take issue? Maybe consider your as being provided more service since you were the only one she provided this attention to. What do you expect out of this? If venting ok it's done now expect rationale people to throw it back on you and we call it FT.
Aug 7, 2012, 10:52 am
#50
Join Date: Jul 2005
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You may want to try SQ, LX, OZ first class cabins. In general, they offer real first class experiences. Including cabin staff that would never condescend to a passenger, however unwittingly.
Otherwise I'm going with the majority on this one. You can't please very one all of the time: another passenger would probably be delighted with such personal service.
Aug 7, 2012, 12:11 pm
#51
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If you got it, lord it over your fellow man! That's the American way.
Aug 7, 2012, 12:14 pm
#52
Join Date: May 2012
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I don't think he's complaining, just curious
I too elicit this reaction from people when traveling, and just in general. I think my kind face & quiet exterior somehow are equated with naivety and inexperience, which couldn't be further from the truth. & in fact I'm rather surly but have this habit of smiling and polite responsiveness that belie my festering attitude at times
of course it's not something that should be dwelled on for even a moment, but come on I think he was just sharing a fleeting wonder, not looking to start a riotous discussion or complaint lodging.
also maybe she was just trying to jump in your suite with you.
I too elicit this reaction from people when traveling, and just in general. I think my kind face & quiet exterior somehow are equated with naivety and inexperience, which couldn't be further from the truth. & in fact I'm rather surly but have this habit of smiling and polite responsiveness that belie my festering attitude at times
of course it's not something that should be dwelled on for even a moment, but come on I think he was just sharing a fleeting wonder, not looking to start a riotous discussion or complaint lodging.
also maybe she was just trying to jump in your suite with you.
Aug 7, 2012, 12:37 pm
#53
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Well that's just nonsense. Staff on any airline can do and have done similar. Flyertalk would almost cease to be if they didn't.
Otherwise I'm going with the majority on this one. You can't please very one all of the time: another passenger would probably be delighted with such personal service.
Otherwise I'm going with the majority on this one. You can't please very one all of the time: another passenger would probably be delighted with such personal service.
Aug 7, 2012, 12:49 pm
#54
Join Date: Mar 2005
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My reading of the original post was not so much a complaint about the FA herself, but musing about how general behavior amongst passengers in First may have changed over the years.
It was the OP who was "too polite" (self-description) during interactions earlier in the flight, with a tongue-in-cheek assumption that is why the FA said what she did later on.
(my own assumptive summation = the FA may not experience many polite passengers up front these days, therefore the FA assumed the OP was a newbie)
It was the OP who was "too polite" (self-description) during interactions earlier in the flight, with a tongue-in-cheek assumption that is why the FA said what she did later on.
(my own assumptive summation = the FA may not experience many polite passengers up front these days, therefore the FA assumed the OP was a newbie)
Aug 7, 2012, 8:50 pm
#55
Join Date: Jan 2011
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they actually do this on LH business class now, at least on my flights to Asia.
Aug 7, 2012, 9:07 pm
#57
Join Date: Apr 2011
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