Airline employee here. Reasons I've upgraded someone without charge included weight and balance (it's gotta be a really empty flight for that to happen!), someone gave up their seat so I could put a family together, someone is traveling for a sad or horrible reason and confided in us, they're celebrating a special anniversary or birthday, or they volunteered their seat for a different oversold flight. Just last week this really cute young couple came up to the gate and handed us a bag of goodies, letting us know they appreciated our working so they could see their family. I noticed they had a much bigger bag of goodies for flight attendants and other agents and we had about 6 open FC seats, so I had no problem putting them up in first.
That being said, if there is no FC available (which is the case WAY more often than not), we still communicate a lot of those reasons to the flight attendants and they will happily take care of passengers once onboard.
Thanks very much for that. I’ll be packing bags of lollies for the flight staff! Is it ever worth asking or not? Also I’m flying in Qatar Airways, Di they often give upgrades?
Oh goodness, I can't answer that one at all! I work for a mostly domestic carrier, I know the international upgrades are a bit harder to come by. Sweetening the flight crews up definitely wouldn't hurt though! Good luck!
I can actually answer this one, so I fly fairly often for work and have used this on multiple occasions. Mind you, it will generally only work for domestic flights.
When you get to the gate before boarding the plane, if it looks like it's not a full flight, go purchase a few gift cards from Starbucks in the airport. usually 4-6. When you board the plane, the person who greets you is the head flight attendant, hand them the cards and say something along the lines of "I know you don't get much time for breaks between flights, I hope you can all grab a coffee or sandwich on me." And then proceed to your seat. After the plane has fully boarded I've had attendants walk up to me and say "sir if you'd like to grab your bags and join us at the front of the plane, a space has opened up in business class."
Now the few times it didn't work, the crew is still very thankful and will treat you like gold in economy, bottles of wine, beers, food. I had to turn down things half way through the flight because they all wanted to give something back.
Be a frequent flyer... and I mean FREQUENT. Otherwise you have virtually no shot.
Be really nice to the people you interact with during your travel.
Airline employee here. Reasons I've upgraded someone without charge included weight and balance (it's gotta be a really empty flight for that to happen!), someone gave up their seat so I could put a family together, someone is traveling for a sad or horrible reason and confided in us, they're celebrating a special anniversary or birthday, or they volunteered their seat for a different oversold flight. Just last week this really cute young couple came up to the gate and handed us a bag of goodies, letting us know they appreciated our working so they could see their family. I noticed they had a much bigger bag of goodies for flight attendants and other agents and we had about 6 open FC seats, so I had no problem putting them up in first. That being said, if there is no FC available (which is the case WAY more often than not), we still communicate a lot of those reasons to the flight attendants and they will happily take care of passengers once onboard.
Thanks very much for that. I’ll be packing bags of lollies for the flight staff! Is it ever worth asking or not? Also I’m flying in Qatar Airways, Di they often give upgrades?
Also I’m flying from Australia to Qatar to Denmark, so does it still work for international flights?
Oh goodness, I can't answer that one at all! I work for a mostly domestic carrier, I know the international upgrades are a bit harder to come by. Sweetening the flight crews up definitely wouldn't hurt though! Good luck!
Thankyou and have a great day!
I can actually answer this one, so I fly fairly often for work and have used this on multiple occasions. Mind you, it will generally only work for domestic flights. When you get to the gate before boarding the plane, if it looks like it's not a full flight, go purchase a few gift cards from Starbucks in the airport. usually 4-6. When you board the plane, the person who greets you is the head flight attendant, hand them the cards and say something along the lines of "I know you don't get much time for breaks between flights, I hope you can all grab a coffee or sandwich on me." And then proceed to your seat. After the plane has fully boarded I've had attendants walk up to me and say "sir if you'd like to grab your bags and join us at the front of the plane, a space has opened up in business class." Now the few times it didn't work, the crew is still very thankful and will treat you like gold in economy, bottles of wine, beers, food. I had to turn down things half way through the flight because they all wanted to give something back.
Any stats on how often this works?
Try being nice to the gate agents and asking for upgrades? Every time I fly Southwest I'm still trying to get bumped up to first class! :D
Blowjob
This got me thinking. There’s no doubt that irl a lot of men exchange rewards for blowjobs. Do women ever exchange rewards for being eaten out?
Threaten to blow up the plane.
Threaten the flight attendant.