I concur pretty much with everything above.
Last Saturday I flew LGW-ZRH. Midday I arrived at security and received a “good afternoon” from the ‘girl that puts things on trays for the scanner’ and I replied with a cheery (I am quite happy!) “good afternoon, how are you?” to which she replied “that’s the first one I’ve had today! I am better now thanks”.
So I guess we can all remember to be not just nice to CC, but also EE (Everyone Else).
Which includes my special gripe, bloody arrogant tosspot SLF.
As a regular traveller I am regularly sat in front of tosspot SLF who can’t get out of their seats with out pulling mine backwards, who take a window seat on an overnight flight but then drink a bladder full and have to visit the bathrooms 4 times in the night. People with oversize carry-on luggage (why don’t airlines stop this?) and my number 1 hate, people that just drop their seats back into your lap without so much of a check to see that you are not sitting with a 2 year old on your lap, or a lap top or a cup of coffee. IIRC, Aer Lingus and EasyJet have seats that don’t drop back – bliss.
Lastly, the gold card/top tier card carrying tossers that push in at the front of all the queues. I have one too guys and probably do half a dozen people standing around us so WTF do you think you are doing pushing in front of all of us?
CC, compared to these arseholes, are a welcome relief. I’ve never had a problem. FWIW BA are the best IME, but as a general rule, Brit cabin crew leave the other European nationalities far behind. But maybe, as a Brit, I am looking for ‘politeness indicators’ and get the most from other Brits, Germans from Germans, Belgians from Belgians etc. But I don’t think so.
Last edited by Mr Quite Happy; 8th September 2009 at 07:05.