You know you are a former frequent flyer when...

[Seat0B]

When you let your Amex comp flight expire because you can’t go anywhere anyway....

Oh yes! Me too and also Mr Seat 0A. It’s just depressing really.

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Your passport is now used only as a makeshift hygrometer:

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This is gold! Or maybe platinum!

 

[TonyHancock]

This is gold! Or maybe platinum!

...or "Spire"*...........mmmmm....maybe not!!

*This of course will mean nothing to anyone who is not familiar with the IHG rewards program.

 

[Flashback]

You find you're about to have to purchase soap, shampoo and conditioner when you go to reach for the next replacement.

 

[Mr H]

When the thought of returning to a CBD office fills you with dread and you realise the "better face-to-face" pretext for work trips has well and truly been exposed...

 

[andye]

When you are watching a James Bond scene in London and you feel emotional that you haven't made your (at least) annual trip

 

[TomVexille]

When you take a new job based in one location as border restrictions meant zero work flights for the last 18 months

 

[k_sheep]

Your passport is now used only as a makeshift hygrometer:

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I call BS, who knows where their passport is

Also I live in the 'Sunshine' Coast, I don't recognise the first 2 photos.

 

[coolumbla]

when you do go to work and realise that you have to find where work store their pens after 20 years as there are no more hotel branded ones in the drawer

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and when you realise teh last time you read AFF was a looong time ago!

 

[ellen10]

When Facebook keeps coming up with photo memories and you just sigh with the torment.

 

[Carrots]

When Facebook keeps coming up with photo memories and you just sigh with the torment.

Currently experiencing this torment also.... 2 weeks in, 2 weeks to go of torture.

On the upside, I'm remembering how amazing Africa is!

 

[andye]

QR means a scanning app rather than a nice J flight

 

[AIRwin]

QR means a scanning app rather than a nice J flight

Or Queensland Rail?

 

[andye]

You said to yourself that you'd upload the saved data from the sadly lost AFF Flight tracker when you booked your next flight. And you've only just done it

 

[albatross710]

You know the borders are open, you are vaccinated, you have the cash and the time but you just can't bring yourself to booking just yet.

the above is my current affliction which I diminish with ...but there will be great deals in Feb when the current pent up demand has been filled, schools are back in and then the airlines will be desperate for my patronage

 

[Ade]

..but there will be great deals in Feb

Feb is the month of the QF DSC ... eagerly waiting for it ...

 

[Flashback]

When....... you've only spent 3.5 months of the year on the road.

 

[TonyHancock]

....BA emails you to advise that you have been downgraded to J on a transatlantic flight and it takes almost 30 minutes to resolve the issue a find a flight with an F cabin,

 

[Flashback]

....BA emails you to advise that you have been downgraded to J on a transatlantic flight and it takes almost 30 minutes to resolve the issue a find a flight with an F cabin,

But if it's club suite... Although the F TPs would be nice.

 

[Mattg]

But if it's club suite... Although the F TPs would be nice.

And sticking to the theme of this thread... you know you're a former frequent flyer when you stop stockpiling TPs, and start stockpiling TP.

 

[kookaburra75]

Ok - who was it? Own up. I reckon it's the sort of thing @JessicaTam would do

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