Hello again...
I just want to say two things....
Flyingwise,I really don't get it! If you were on an ID90 ticket and WT loads were so bad but there was space in CW for you to buy a ticket....why didn't they simply allocate you on a CW seat!? Simply UPGRADE you? Why buy a ticket?? Don't tell me that only BMED crews/staff can be upgraded!!!
You are right to say that most BA skippers wouldn't have done it!! In fact our (BA) crew seats are available to all staff. I indeed sat in the FD a few days ago to allow a Virgin Atlantic cabin crew to sit on my crew seat and so manage to fly back home to Manchester. We do these things between us, we take care of each other, it doesn't matter whether you are BA, Virgin, Delta crew etc! Or even a partner flying on ID90/ZED ticket!! We often do it for non-crew sby pax as long as we give them a full briefing (02, different brace pos. etc)
I actually lived in Beirut and Amman few years ago before I started flying and that's why I go at least once a year, I miss it and miss my friends, but I don't want to get stuck there, or indeed at LHR (even worse!!). So I have now requested ZED flights with AF/ME via CDG as a backup. I don't even need to endorse them since AF and ME are partners.
Shame on my own company.
Thank you again guys. I will get there somehow... Inshallah!!!!
Love
FBW
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