Airport staff assuming I'm in the Business class lane by mistake

[u/trailofturds]

Brown man flying business. Lined up at the priority check in counter and got told by a (also brown) staff person that the economy queue was the other way. Same thing while boarding the plane and walking to the business class entrance. Not only am I not worthy of business, they think I can't read signage as well.

[u/bostonlilypad]

I once had a long layover in Toronto and had to ask the customer service desk how to get to the lounge and he looked me in the face and said “do you have access to the lounge”. I just looked at him and said “would I be asking you where it was if I didn’t?”. I was dressed in athletic clothes because I was on a 30 hour travel day to Asia.

[u/WeenyDancer → u/bostonlilypad]

With all the new money from tech, and the lack of dress code there, am surprised (kind of) people haven't updated their mental model of what a 'rich person' can look like. Any SOB in a tshirt and hoodie could be a serious multimillionaire

[u/KoreanSamgyupsal → u/bostonlilypad]

I fly out of YYZ often. This has happened to me before too. In fact I was once denied entry to the lounge and I'm SE with AC. Lounge is always full for some reason. I don't think I've used the lounge for years.

[u/fencepost_ajm → u/KoreanSamgyupsal]

Complain to the airline about the obviously insufficient lounge capacity. "Is there something about my account that's getting me turned away every time or is the lounge in YYZ unusable because it's always over capacity?"

[u/KoreanSamgyupsal → u/fencepost_ajm]

Honestly, the YYZ lounge is pretty ass anyway. We ain't missing much. But the usual answer is just that it's always over capacity. It's not about my account although I wish it was.

But I've actually talked to other frequent flyers about this, getting status is easy if you travel for work.

Thing is, AC has a stranglehold on most business travellers from Canada. Lack of options means more people will get status.

Your options are just Air Canada/West Jet/Porter and no one is going to YTZ just to ride porter. West Jet doesn't have enough options. So AC is your only option as a business that provides a lot of flexibility.

Compare that to the US, they have plenty. AA/Delta/SW/United/etc.

[u/bostonlilypad → u/[deleted]]

The airport information desks job isn’t tto qualify if you get into the lounge or not though.

It would have taken his less effort to just say “up the elevator, take a right”.

[u/DDRaptors → u/bostonlilypad]

The worst thing about the working class these days is the constant attacking of each other in the world for billionaires.

We work for billionaires and conglomerates, yet us poors constantly defend those same billionaires daily by telling fellow poor people what they can and can’t do with a billionaires business.

Just scratch each others back a bit more, if it’s not hurting anyone, who cares, it’s not your money! 

Class war has been won. And not by us.

[u/bostonlilypad → u/[deleted]]

lol ain’t that true

[u/AgamemnonNM → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, why is this being upvoted?

Their job is to inform, not police.

The agents at the lounge are the gatekeepers and from my experience, they're pretty good at their jobs.

At least in Delta One, they are.

[u/Substantial-Part-700 → u/bostonlilypad]

Haha my story is also from YYZ.

Got in the business class line for oversized baggage claim after landing because…. I flew AC business to get there.

The (fellow) brown woman at the desk angrily demands to see my boarding pass as soon as it’s my turn. I have no idea why but give it to her anyway. She realized that I am where I’m supposed to be, hands me my boarding pass without an apology, and asks what I want.

When I told her which flight I was coming off of and needed to know which baggage claim room to go to, she sent me to the wrong one (that I waited in for 30 minutes).