You know you are a frequent flyer when ...

[boomy]

Interesting, never thought about keeping all my BPs... I do try to keep hotel room cards and managed to make a nice collection over the years

 

[ozbeachbabe]

Your Avgeek brother tells you his mobile number but gives you the last six digits as QF flight numbers.

You know you're a frequent flyer when you actually know the city pairs of those flights!

Just for the record they were:

QF59 SYD/NGO
QF68 DPS/MEL
QF43 SYD/AKL

 

[Buzzard]

......when you chose to fly Tiger only because you have never flown them before (or will again).


You also want one of their boarding passes as a souvenir just in case they cease trading.

 

[Boris spatsky]

Actually that reminds me of another one... when you know the flight numbers of every Qantas international flight.

There are only 400 of them

 

[ozbeachbabe]

Actually that reminds me of another one... when you know the flight numbers of every Qantas international flight.

Sadly that task is getting easier & easier these days.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

......when you chose to fly Tiger only because you have never flown them before (or will again).

I fail as a FFer yet again! I kept telling myself I have to fly them to stuff VA up.........seems I've missed my chance!

You also want one of their boarding passes as a souvenir just in case they cease trading.

Now you've got me wondering if the imitable Ms. JT has one stashed in her drawers?

 

[leadman]

Last year my daughter took a lot of my BP's and made a montage in a large picture frame. Great way to see them and brings back many memories, especially the old AN BP's.

 

[Deleted member 29185]

Last year my daughter took a lot of my BP's and made a montage in a large picture frame. Great way to see them and brings back many memories, especially the old AN BP's.

Very astute daughter you have there. Toulouse-Lautrec gained great acclaim with poster art, so whY not?

 

[serfty]

Does anyone not keep boarding passes? :shock:

Trust me - it's gets a bit droll after the first 1000 or so.

They are safely stored away in a desk drawer, thank you.

I ran out of available drawer space. ...

Seriously, I used to diligently keep them, but after 10 years or so the begin to fade ... I suppose I could burn the .pdf's to disk.

 

[JessicaTam]

<snip>
Now you've got me wondering if the imitable Ms. JT has one stashed in her drawers?

im•i•ta•ble(ˈɪm ɪ tə bəl)
adj.capable or worthy of being imitated.

Aww, shucks.

And no I don't have, nor ever have had, a TT BP. Although TT have come in handy for other reasons!

 

[straitman]

yep - I think knowing which runways you are using wins the prize here ....

Depends if you are a pilot or not :!:

 

[TheBOSman]

Not related to FF necessarily, but I just had a "I spend too much time on AFF", someone complained over on FT about something involving WA and my first thought was "Western Australia" and not the contextually more likely US state of "Washington" .

 

[JessicaTam]

Not related to FF necessarily, but I just had a "I spend too much time on AFF", someone complained over on FT about something involving WA and my first thought was "Western Australia" and not the contextually more likely US state of "Washington" .

I wonder if that is the first step towards citizenship?

 

[TheBOSman]

I wonder if that is the first step towards citizenship?

Should be . I'll lodge my application with CBR and put just that as my reasoning. I should get it right?

 

[klavdy]

You've read the magazines back to front, watched all the in flight entertainment, eaten your way up and down the menu, can recite the safety demonstration word perfect and in different accents and languages, your travel clothes are all scanner friendly, getting picked yet again for a "Random" bomb sniff no longer annoys you.

 

[boomy]

You've read the magazines back to front, watched all the in flight entertainment, eaten your way up and down the menu, can recite the safety demonstration word perfect and in different accents and languages, your travel clothes are all scanner friendly, getting picked yet again for a "Random" bomb sniff no longer annoys you.

Good summary of what it means to be a FF!

 

[RooFlyer]

Interesting, never thought about keeping all my BPs... I do try to keep hotel room cards and managed to make a nice collection over the years

You never know when they might be useful.

When I/my company applied for an AusTrade grant some years ago (retrospective for some successful export marketing we did to Africa 2 years previously) one of the (alternative) proofs required that you actually undertook the trip in question, was to produce BPs

When we went through our doumentation, the guy looked somewhat bemused, saying 'I don't think we've had anyone taking that option before...'

 

[Deleted member 29185]

You've read the magazines back to front,

That was me today. Jumped aboard and grabbed the "new" in-flight mag to see what the esteemed CEO has to say for this month...............only to realise the new month starts tomorrow. Wouldn't you think they'd have the common decency to have a new in-flight mag every week for the FFers?

 

[RooFlyer]

You arrive home after a 15 segment trip away and drag out the receipts and put them down "to check against credit card statements" only to realise that the receipts from the past 2 trips are still sitting there, unbidden.

 

[SamR]

I love you guys because you're a big bunch of tragics, but... geez, you're a big bunch of tragics!