EAAFA:
"What has happened to good manners? It's a pity that the relatives can't be barred from staff travel benefits in cases where the staff themselves are polite, but their husbands/wives are horrible."
Absolutely!
Airlines can ban relatives only if they chose to - it has happened before. Also, staff members can ban their own relatives if need be. A friend of mine had 25 years in Air Canada. His sister got him in hot water with AC twice for behaving bad whilst travelling on his concessions. About ten years ago she was banned - by my friend, and *her* concessions have not been re-instated.
Good manners though? Well, I'm a small town boy now living in a (relatively) big and busy city - politeness and good manners are nowhere to be found, and I miss those nice things.
HF:
"If I'm on an ID90, my main interest is getting on the flight."
If I'm under time pressure I agree, but when I travel stby I try to keep time in hand. On long haul I prefer to thank the counter staff for their time and help and decline the Y seat - and head to the local town for another night in a hotel and bit more being a tourist.
I realy don't understand why any staff traveller must bring any anger or bad feeling into being denied boarding, we all know the deal - if there's space we get on, if not we don't. Same goes for behaviour onboard. The staff dealing with us are our collegues and should be able to rely on the rest of us not to make their day any harder.
Best wishes to all who have to process staff pax.
JU
/Edited for typos/
Last edited by jetupset; 12th June 2005 at 05:13.