Well Spanners, it's a fair bet that you would know if their Doj was before/after yours, and if you were traveling on the same type of ticket and you know you were dudded, I'd be quietly pointing out to the staff anti-travel supervisor said fact, and making it known to them that if a wrong was not righted, that you'd be beating BN's door down, with names of the airport staff involved.
Only had this once, the conflicting hopeful traveller was one of our very nice local FOP's ground staff, and despite believing her Doj was after mine, she was clearly being given a J boarding pass. A different counter staff confirmed my flight not being called, so a not so subtle shuffle up to the other counter allowed a sneak peek at her paper coupon which revealed same 26B priority.
They had already come out with the, if buis full will you accept ey, to which I'd said yes.
End result, a quick and quiet second chat with supvr, who was not happy with my sticking my western nose in, resulted in me obtaining the last buis seat, and our more junior FOP lady being given ey boarding pass at the gate, as she'd nicked off pretty quickly when she realised there was a quiet dispute going on next door!
But we are told everything is done according to ticket priority and Doj - right?
A more transparent system at check-in would help prevent such shenanigans that BN must know occur, generally to our detriment.
As to the original thread, apologies to our colonial friend that we are not as user friendly as the US experience he is used to. However, on a point of procedure, I am entitled to upgrade anyone I see fit, I just have to justify it. It has been done, however, in this touchy feely PC age, I have always run it past the ISM first (to forestall any complaints), and generally been met with two comments - yes they are fine as I would 'take the rap' by my noting details on CAR, and pax to be made aware there may only have ey meals. But in reality, this seldom occurs.
Last edited by LongTimeInCX; 12th February 2013 at 22:11.