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Would it really kill you to answer the phone and say "Sorry - can't make it"?

Hmmm..... there seems to be communal blind spot about this that is worrying. The window is not for the sole and exclusive use of the person sitting closest to it, just like the aisle is not for the sole and exclusive use of the person sitting next to it. Both are shared assets. Nobody owns...

Don't feel bad, BR. In our eyes you will always be a WP.

Now now HaydenSydney. I think the correct term is "tooling up", though what you will be using boggles the mind. But if we can get past the handbags at 20 paces and go back to some logic, can you explain what is wrong with these two statements. You are in a Window Seat, and claim exclusive...

Not quite, Matt. I would prefer the person in the seat closest to the window does not selfishly block the view of their fellow passengers. This is not to say that they can't crane their head to look at something interesting or try to see their house, etc, but this whole business of "I own the...

Regardless of differing airline policies, the threat to the aircraft from someone filming during takeoff or landing is preceisely zero, but the impact on other passengers are two-fold. Firstly it is a loose item that presents a small danger in rough turbulence, and secondly the amateur...

Who said that?

Where did you hear that and are other changes going to be made?

I haven't been following this with any care as my next flights on BA aren't until December, but it seems that BA management have a bit of a one-track mind. One of the articles stated that BA lost about 400M pounds last year and expect to lose 600M pounds in the current year. They would have...

That's how I saw it too. Plenty of attitude from the passenger for sure, but then we cut to a scene of him getting the Rodney King treatment. Ok maybe I exagerate a bit and without seeing the full tape and hearing the dialogue it is very hard to determine why this incident escalated into an...

Hang on. I was on the Perth/Sydney red-eye that night after a long and warm day at work and then no showers in the QC. Not sure if I would describe myself as young, but just to put my mind at rest can you give me a row number?

My last 2 experiences have been the opposite - bags sent all the way through to Edinburgh. As you are transiting through Heathrow they should tag your bags to EDI and you just need to following the Flight Connections path from Terminal 3 to Terminal 5. But I seem to recall trying to confirm...

Yes they will. To the point of being stupidly pedantic. For no other reasons except that it is in the T&C. Regardless of whether changing circumstances makes a complete mockery of them doing so. I've heard that some people are like this too and the medical profession labels them as autistic...

Lindsay - I believe you are a moderator so I will say this very carefully. I believe that very few people on a long haul flight walk in, sit down, belt up, wait, stand up, walk off. I am probably a bit more of a fidget than most, but I would be out of my seat between 1 and 4 times on average. I...

Sorry to quote only you Maca44 ... but as a test case for those that can't read a simple post - yours will do nicely. My question was "hands up all those who always keep their seat belts on from push-back to nose-in"? It's a simple question. It has a simple answer. That answer will be a small...

The plane's software was faulty resulting in an unexpected and violent manoeuvre that caused injuries (some quite serious) to a number of passengers. Chance of success in litigation = 100%. The only thing in doubt is the final figure. And hands up all those who always keep their seat belts...

My gripe with the Air Asia site was that I joined their program purely for the purpose of checking award availability, due to the on-again // off-again situation at the Qantas site. I am trying to tack on a HKG/SGN return award on the way back from the UK in January next year, but all I can...

Mystery solved. Dear Smackbum, You recently received an e-mail regarding the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) that was sent to you in error. We want to make sure that you know your contact information has not been affected and that you were not intended to receive that...

Sounds innocuous enough, and the email from Continental goes on to give details of the real ETSA site not the ripoff sites that charge money for this free service. My concern is that I have no travel details booked, but I had recently priced some options with AA and Continental for internal USA...

My suspicions are that preallocation is only useful if you want to move back or pick an unusual seat for your profile, like a sudden whim for a window seat. By opening up a limited (by status) selection Qantas will have back-filled the cabin slightly before the automated T-24 engine deals the...