About British Airways and everyday sexism

[overthinker91]

Booked flights back in February for me and DP.
Used my BA account, I'm the primary passenger and DP secondary passenger, paid with my credit card which is obviously in my name. Nothing to suggest DP had any involvement other than being a named passenger.

Email (to My Email address!) today reads
Dear Mr DP surname we are sorry to say your flight has been cancelled.

This has really annoyed me but I feel like there are bigger things for BA to be worrying about at the moment. Just venting.

Funnily enough our solicitor (moving house) did the exact same thing, all paper work addressed to him first and me second despite her never having spoken to him! Grrrrrr

It may just be their computer systems formatting. I worked for a company where all standardised letters went out with ‘Mr’ first. Sometimes I have also realised that the older person is addressed first. I discovered this, as I am older than my DH and some insurance documents always arrive addressed to me even though he is the primary insured person and pays that bill.

YABU and trying to make an issue where there isn’t one.

If you look at the world as it actually is rather than through your sexism tinted glasses you won’t get so het up over absolutely nothing.

Even if it how their systems are programmed, it's still sexist to put men first. The coding is sexist.

I’d be pissed off with that too. A programme that automatically puts men before women is by definition a sexist programme. Why would they need to do that? Surely the person whose name is entered first goes first.

What title did you give yourself?

Maybe its because mr comes before mrs and ms alphabetically?

Our BA flights were cancelled and refunded. Each of the adult passengers who had listed their emails got a notification addressed to them.

YANBU. It is because they're computers are programmed in a sexist fashion.

Of course you are not being unreasonable; some systems assume you are a man if you put your title as Dr.
Its not difficult to not be sexist, we've had equality legislation since 1970 and there's no excuse for it.

I had a booking with me and my daughter on, same email address and they emailed her on my email to say it had been cancelled.

My husband had our son on his booking and had the same thing.

I'm having the exact same problem with Halifax home insurance and I'm really passed off with them.

Took out home insurance in May. I'm the primary customer, dh is secondary. Paperwork through, all fine, addressed to primary customer & secondary customer. No issue.

Some weeks later, got a letter through addressed to Mr secondary customer. I had simply disappeared.

Made a formal complaint, in my name.
They responded by writing to Mr & Mrs secondary customer.

I phoned them up and added to the complaint.

Seeing as I've reached the magical age when no fucks are given, i've started to call out this bullshit whenever I see it.

In the technological age we live in, its simply unacceptable.

YANBU - this has happened to me too!

I booked as lead passenger and paid using my credit card.

Email (sent to us both, separately) - “Dear Mr Young”

RUDE!!!

Yes I've had this with Thomas cook just before it went bust. I booked, I paid, I listed myself as lead passenger and they sent to boarding passes to my email address but had made my husband lead passenger and addressed the email to him. I did complain but they went tits up 5 weeks later.

House purchase. I paid nearly all the very substantial deposit. The solicitors were well aware of this as I had to make numerous transfers from my personal account. All the correspondence was handled by me (I'm a solicitor myself). After the purchase they had a balance on the client account and sent a cheque payable only to my husband enclosed with a letter addressed only to him. I sent in a complaint which they ignored!

Sorry meant to mention that my husband has a different surname and I use "Miss" so there should have been no assumption that we were married and he was head of the household (though I also abhor that outdated tradition. )