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Would this have happened in the UK?
Aug 10th 2014, 8:03 am
#31
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Re: Would this have happened in the UK?
Would this have happened in Australia?
Background - golfer Ian Poulter's family was travelling to watch him play in the USPGA and he had booked 6 J class tickets for his wife, children and their nanny. When they arrived at the airport the nanny's ticket was downgraded to Y due to overbooking. Poulter took to Twitter to moan about his wife not having the nanny to look after the children.
Golfer Ian Poulter complains after his nanny's British Airways seat is downgraded - Telegraph
Poulter argues that it is like ordering a steak in a restaurant and getting a tomato (he would of course in this incident only have paid for a tomato as he'd get a refund for the downgrade).
Background - golfer Ian Poulter's family was travelling to watch him play in the USPGA and he had booked 6 J class tickets for his wife, children and their nanny. When they arrived at the airport the nanny's ticket was downgraded to Y due to overbooking. Poulter took to Twitter to moan about his wife not having the nanny to look after the children.
Golfer Ian Poulter complains after his nanny's British Airways seat is downgraded - Telegraph
Poulter argues that it is like ordering a steak in a restaurant and getting a tomato (he would of course in this incident only have paid for a tomato as he'd get a refund for the downgrade).
Aug 10th 2014, 8:14 am
#33
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Re: Would this have happened in the UK?
In all seriousness, the only time I have been upgraded from business to first because of overcrowding was on BA. I sat next to the Dutch foreign minister. He's been in the press recently. Nice bloke. Loves a drink and violent films.
Aug 10th 2014, 9:59 am
#34
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Re: Would this have happened in the UK?
Would this have happened in Australia?
Background - golfer Ian Poulter's family was travelling to watch him play in the USPGA and he had booked 6 J class tickets for his wife, children and their nanny. When they arrived at the airport the nanny's ticket was downgraded to Y due to overbooking. Poulter took to Twitter to moan about his wife not having the nanny to look after the children.
Golfer Ian Poulter complains after his nanny's British Airways seat is downgraded - Telegraph
Poulter argues that it is like ordering a steak in a restaurant and getting a tomato (he would of course in this incident only have paid for a tomato as he'd get a refund for the downgrade).
Background - golfer Ian Poulter's family was travelling to watch him play in the USPGA and he had booked 6 J class tickets for his wife, children and their nanny. When they arrived at the airport the nanny's ticket was downgraded to Y due to overbooking. Poulter took to Twitter to moan about his wife not having the nanny to look after the children.
Golfer Ian Poulter complains after his nanny's British Airways seat is downgraded - Telegraph
Poulter argues that it is like ordering a steak in a restaurant and getting a tomato (he would of course in this incident only have paid for a tomato as he'd get a refund for the downgrade).
Aug 10th 2014, 5:59 pm
#36
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Re: Would this have happened in the UK?
Would this have happened in Australia?
Background - golfer Ian Poulter's family was travelling to watch him play in the USPGA and he had booked 6 J class tickets for his wife, children and their nanny. When they arrived at the airport the nanny's ticket was downgraded to Y due to overbooking. Poulter took to Twitter to moan about his wife not having the nanny to look after the children.
Golfer Ian Poulter complains after his nanny's British Airways seat is downgraded - Telegraph
Poulter argues that it is like ordering a steak in a restaurant and getting a tomato (he would of course in this incident only have paid for a tomato as he'd get a refund for the downgrade).
Background - golfer Ian Poulter's family was travelling to watch him play in the USPGA and he had booked 6 J class tickets for his wife, children and their nanny. When they arrived at the airport the nanny's ticket was downgraded to Y due to overbooking. Poulter took to Twitter to moan about his wife not having the nanny to look after the children.
Golfer Ian Poulter complains after his nanny's British Airways seat is downgraded - Telegraph
Poulter argues that it is like ordering a steak in a restaurant and getting a tomato (he would of course in this incident only have paid for a tomato as he'd get a refund for the downgrade).
Aug 11th 2014, 8:32 am
#39
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Aug 11th 2014, 8:39 am
#40
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Re: Would this have happened in the UK?
Aug 11th 2014, 8:56 am
#41
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Aug 11th 2014, 9:32 am
#43
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Re: Would this have happened in the UK?
For those who need numbered dots to join up, the thread is about something which happened in Australia and the question was posed as to whether this would happen in the UK. This is topical in the UK at the moment so by a bit of lateral thinking I wondered whether the reverse would happen.
Aug 11th 2014, 9:54 am
#44
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Re: Would this have happened in the UK?
For those who need numbered dots to join up, the thread is about something which happened in Australia and the question was posed as to whether this would happen in the UK. This is topical in the UK at the moment so by a bit of lateral thinking I wondered whether the reverse would happen.
cut out the sniping and personal digs, I really thought we'd seen the last of that......
Aug 11th 2014, 9:56 am
#45
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Re: Would this have happened in the UK?
For those who need numbered dots to join up, the thread is about something which happened in Australia and the question was posed as to whether this would happen in the UK. This is topical in the UK at the moment so by a bit of lateral thinking I wondered whether the reverse would happen.