When DYKWIA becomes the full <airline> tanty

[Quickstatus]

If there is a priority then that is the way it works. You are called to board first.

I was made gold by virtue of MrP's flying and this was pre AFF and I didnt know what it meant. I lined up at HK with my mother at the far end of the queue. Crew members walked along the slow queue checking BP's. Finally got to mine and he looked at me and shook his head and then took me and my mother straight to the front of the queue. We were in Y.

I dont push in front of others if there is no priority lane. But I do expect that priority lane to be boarded first.

Thats a case of DYKWY​A!!!

 

[Pushka]

Thats a case of DYKWY​A!!!

I know! Sad. But in my defence it was before I joined AFF. Now, I really KWIA!

 

[Rebekkap]

Pretty much a rule. Those who are actually important are the nicest, lowest fuss, people.

Anyway, I don't care......unless you happen to be Buzz Aldrin.

A friend of mine recently sat next to Buzz on an AA flight from DC to Orlando - where she was coming to meet me. They chatted the whole way (about the book he's co-writing apparently).

 

[TonyHancock]

We definitely need an "Are You a DYKWIA" Quiz

 

[Jo145]

I boarded a flight last month LAX-MEL. I was on points but had chosen my seat 12 months prior when I booked it (thanks to some comments here). Chose one of the single J class seats on the 747. CSM pointed to my seat where a man had settled himself nicely. He wasn't happy being asked to move and claimed he thought my seat (5J) was the 5F on his boarding pass. Guess he just couldn't read ....

 

[razors_girl23]

I often get funny looks when I'm joining the priority queue or sitting in J. Being a swimming instructor woman in her 20's will do that I suppose, but flying a lot domestically, having a couple of big overseas trips, family pooling and being smart & loyal has gotten me WP with Virgin. My husband and I got a full on up and down look (and a sneaky check of our bp's) by a well dressed man boarding first class in Detroit. He's lucky he didn't say anything; I could almost hear the "this is for first class only" line on the tip of his tongue.

As for nasty FF's, I had a doozy of a woman on a flight from FLL to JFK in September. We were seated in first on Delta and she was a typical sounding abrupt and obnoxious New Yorker. I overheard her saying she had something like a million miles with Delta, so obviously a regular and she sure made it known. It started off by her discussing how she didn't want any refugees to come to America. Then it proceeded to her whining about her meal and drinks. Then I really started shaking my head when she was losing her s**t at the fact that the economy passengers were using the first class toilet *shock horror* She asked the flight attendant why they were coming up the front and told him to shut the curtain (let me add that not once during the flight did she move out of her window seat, so not sure why she was so perturbed). This went on for a while. He later tried explaining that being a 717, the only galley is in the front of the plane and that FAA regulations state that they be allowed to use the first class toilet whilst there is a cart in the aisle. Well, she wasn't having any of that and said she was going to be complaining to Delta and repeatedly kept asking "who designed this plane?!" to which he cooly replied "Boeing". The real kicker was when we were walking up the air bridge after getting off the plane and we all stopped to let a fragile woman get placed in a wheelchair. Her response - "Walk!! What's going on? Why aren't we moving? I don't get it!" at the top of her lungs in the most self absorbed obnoxious way possible. Vile woman.

 

[Quickstatus]

I boarded a flight last month LAX-MEL. I was on points but had chosen my seat 12 months prior when I booked it (thanks to some comments here). Chose one of the single J class seats on the 747. CSM pointed to my seat where a man had settled himself nicely. He wasn't happy being asked to move and claimed he thought my seat (5J) was the 5F on his boarding pass. Guess he just couldn't read ....

I carry baby/wet wipes when travelling. Usually I sit down and then start wiping down the hard surfaces/tray table/net controls. In this case, I would have made sure he saw me wiping down the surfaces before I sat down..

 

[OATEK]

We definitely need an "Are You a DYKWIA" Quiz

Takes one to know one!

 

[Walrus1948]

Checking in on a QF flight out of Heathrow several years ago, I was waiting for the F desk to open and was 1st in line of about 6 people. The desk was about to open when this "gentleman" proceed to push past and stand in front of me. I politely suggested he check where the other end of the line was and take up that position. He spun around and placed his face 2 inches from mine and shouted at me "do you have any idea who I am" . I turned around to all the others in the queue with mouths gaping and politely and loudly asked....this gentlemen does not know who he is, can anyone help him with that because I certainly cannot.


He returned to the back of the line with all the desk people and the queues in Business and First killing themselves laughing. I got daggers all the way back to Melbourne every time he walked past 1A as he did the loop (747).

 

[Pushka]

Who was he?

 

[Walrus1948]

Who was he?

I don't know and I never found out, only that he was a gold that got an upgrade from Business. I was Platinum that used points for my seat. I think he was just trying it on, complained about everything the whole trip back to Melbourne.

 

[BAM1748]

I boarded a flight last month LAX-MEL. I was on points but had chosen my seat 12 months prior when I booked it (thanks to some comments here). Chose one of the single J class seats on the 747. CSM pointed to my seat where a man had settled himself nicely. He wasn't happy being asked to move and claimed he thought my seat (5J) was the 5F on his boarding pass. Guess he just couldn't read ....

It's easy to sit in the wrong seat, I've don't it a few times. Just get it in my head a number from a previous flight.

Matt

 

[Fiches Mouser]

..."who designed this plane?!" to which he cooly replied "Boeing".

That's awesome. Can't argue with that.

My, this thread has gone gangbusters! Who knew there were so many out there!

 

[JohnM]

Checking in on a QF flight out of Heathrow several years ago, I was waiting for the F desk to open and was 1st in line of about 6 people. The desk was about to open when this "gentleman" proceed to push past and stand in front of me. I politely suggested he check where the other end of the line was and take up that position. He spun around and placed his face 2 inches from mine and shouted at me "do you have any idea who I am" . I turned around to all the others in the queue with mouths gaping and politely and loudly asked....this gentlemen does not know who he is, can anyone help him with that because I certainly cannot.


He returned to the back of the line with all the desk people and the queues in Business and First killing themselves laughing. I got daggers all the way back to Melbourne every time he walked past 1A as he did the loop (747).

Did you really know, or find out, who he was? (Not expecting a name - but maybe a role.)

 

[katiebell]

It's easy to sit in the wrong seat, I've don't it a few times. Just get it in my head a number from a previous flight.

Matt

the response to the error often reveals if it is confusion or an attempt to take another seat

 

[katiebell]

No one seems to have mentioned the stories about Kevin07's tanty over a meal

 

[Quickstatus]

That's because Kevin07 is not a DYKWIA. He is believes everyone KHIIA.
1star to someone who can tell us what KHIIA is. Not allowed to ask K07

 

[Archipelago]

That's because Kevin07 is not a DYKWIA. He is believes everyone KHIIA.
1star to someone who can tell us what KHIIA is. Not allowed to ask K07

Knows He Isn't Important Anymore??

 

[andrewlorien]

Maybe this one is really IKWYA? It's long enough ago that i can tell it in public...

A friend was a customs officer. He was patrolling the "waiting to have your bags searched" queue, and heard somebody softly singing. My friend was a musician, and he knew the song, so he started singing the harmony, and looking for the singer. Found him, and recognised George Clinton (Parliament Funkadelic!!!!, a black guy with long rainbow dreadlocks, obvious target for customs) - but couldn't remember his name, so he said "do you like to funk?". George replied "did you ask me if I like to cough*? well i like that too!". My friend took him out of the search queue and escorted him to the door.

 

[coco50]

We definitely need an "Are You a DYKWIA" Quiz

I didn't think I was a Dick Weir until I reflected on what had happened on our RTW trip last year. We had to Leave Monterosso in the Cinque Terre at 0600 to catch a train to Milan and thence to MXP. From there we flew busibness on IB to MAD and from MAD, business on BA to LHR. IB at Milan did all the BP, so our BA leg had BP printed on IB paper. Our seats were 1A and 1C (no 1B). When we arrived at Heathrow this officious gent who was a Sikh was sheepdogging passengers into Economy and Fast Lane to go through immigration. When I automatically went to the fast lane he pulled me up. At this stage we had been travelling for 15 hours and faced a LHR - DFW leg the following day, so I was in no mood to be stuffed around by an officious airport lackey. H e examined our BPs and said that Iberia BPs were all economy. At this point I said that the last sector was flown on BA. I knew this because the A/Cs colours were red, white and blue - not red white and yellow and that I felt entitled to be in the fast lane because we had sat at the front of the pointy end, definitely in business. If he wanted to make an issue of it he could call the police. My wife and I joined the fast lane queue and no further trouble ensued. He didn't know who I was. (DKWIW)