Originally Posted by
Skipness One Foxtrot
There used to be a old guy in a raincoat at Glasgow who would stand in the car park and count the passengers as they disembarked....
It's great Qatar are seemingly filling seats and making things work when Etihad couldn't, but maybe not read too much into a handful of flights with no visibility on upgrades or pricing, or indeed costs! The A350 likely won't have a longer future at QR anyways, bridges well and truly burned.
I couldn't help but smile when I read this post. When I first started plane spotting at Glasgow in the 1970s, the bloke Skipness 1F referred to always seemed to in the terminal and if you asked him about an aircraft registration he couldn't help but , no doubt, could have told you the number of passengers who disembarked from flight 123 from airport " X".
One day , one of my companions saw him coming out of a bank so after that we always referred to him as " the bank manager ".
Anyway, apologies for this bout of nostalga, now back to Edinburgh.