scrubbedexpat141

Exactly....and I'm only silver. The single benefit I like is the quick boarding. I like to get on, get sat and get left the **** alone.

Shit on a plane or in the normal toilets in the airport? Neither are pleasant.

Black coffee is the only coffee. No dicking around, no add ins, just water and coffee. Also, **** the lids - waste of space, keeps a black coffee too hot for too long. Bin the lid and hope a kid doesn't run into you to receive a scalding.

Bahtatboy

Absolutely.

But there again...

Millhouse

No shitting in public toilets period, unless I'm ill.

scrubbedexpat141

Wow.

In fairness, I did have a coffee last night that came with a mini donut stuck on a stick out the top of it. Divine.

DXBtoDOH

One compensation for Qatar is that I get frequent upgrades to business on QR despite only being silver Privilege. It is nice.

BA, however, are utterly shite at upgrades. 150,000 bloody avios points and the most I can ever upgrade to is premium economy.

DXBtoDOH

I remember once in Tunisia I ordered a cappuccino and the foam turned out to be gelatinous whipped cream It was so thick I had to use a spoon to scrape it off in order to have any coffee at all.

Bahtatboy

Yeah, the above pic was in Morocco. It was a two-course affair: eat with a spoon the thick cream, Nutella and nuts, then drink the coffee through the remains of the cream. Was bloody good.

co durham boy

I would change back to QR if the ban wasn't in place without a doubt . Their business trumps EK and the upstairs seating in economy on the A380 for frequent flyers is decent .


Privilege Club is probably the best FF around at the moment and their 2for1 and 40% discounts on business are a steal.

scrubbedexpat141

Agreed.

Sounds incredible.

You can sit upstairs on the A380 with EK but only on flights to shit places like Birmingham where they don't need First Class.

TheShed

I was Platinum on EK last year and got 2 miserable upgrades on BAHRAIN flights all year long. Back to Gold now and was in the 541t lounge today. God it’s awful and the food is worse than ever.

One good thing today, they now only allow priority boarding for Plat and Gold so it’s actually worth something again. As someone else said, gold is the new silver and silver is the new blue with a plastic card instead of paper.

Bahtatboy

Bloody posers. I'm on Royal Air Maroc lowest grade (felafel?) and KLM Ivory (got to be the worst on-line experience ever), had one upgrade in about 5 years on the Leeds-AMS leg (same shite, different seat). RAM food looks like someone tasted it before and didn't like it, and KLM stuff is just booooring. If I have time transiting in AMS I go "outside" to the buffet-style restaurant in the main concourse, which has excellent choice. Cheap it ain't, though, although not as outrageous as MAN T3 airside bollocks. At least it's only about 3 hours flight from here.

Miss Ann Thrope

Well that is irrefutably definitive then... But really, flight attendants? You must have, ahem, encountered one or two....dozen in your time: let's face it, it's just part of gay life, especially living in a hub city. Surely you know how generally free of useful information they tend to be.

An irritating development on short haul mid-size jets that I've noticed is this thing where they want you to put smaller bags under the seat in front. Bog off! That's for my feet and I don't see why I should be penalised for not taking the piss on carry-on luggage. When I've been confronted by FAs about this I refuse to yield and they generally back off. BA are particularly bad on this, giving "under-seat" and "over-head" labels which I promptly remove.

Bahtatboy

Ask him about his daughters. I think you offered to buy one last time he was on here.