"Sharing" business class seat
#31
Join Date: Sep 2005
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If the statuesque Mrs. RNE were pregnant, I would of course let her have the business class seat...assuming the baby is mine, and/or we were flying to the Maury Povich Show to find out.
#32
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: NYC: UA 1K, DL Platinum, AAirpass, Avis PC
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I think there's a lot of erroneous usage of that term here. When CO talks about protecting the integrity of the BF cabin, they are talking about revenue integrity. If they were really trying to make the BF cabin a sanctuary from screaming children then they'd just ban kids under X years old outright. Of course that does nothing to protect the cabin from drunk obnoxious businessmen who like to defecate on carts.
By allowing two pax to purchase/upgrade into one BF seat and swap (once or repeatedly), they're missing out on the potential for two seat purchases/upgrades. So I can understand why CO might be inclined to disallow it.
Are you being facetious??? It's now "inconsiderate" to get up out of your seat?!? I could go so many places with this, but I won't.
By allowing two pax to purchase/upgrade into one BF seat and swap (once or repeatedly), they're missing out on the potential for two seat purchases/upgrades. So I can understand why CO might be inclined to disallow it.
Are you being facetious??? It's now "inconsiderate" to get up out of your seat?!? I could go so many places with this, but I won't.
David Blaine couldn't sneak in and out of a seat seamlessly with 31" pitch. Add kids and an expecting mother to the mix...
If he can find an EWR-TLV with space avail to upgrade, 3-4 Row 16 seats together, and a day that meets his schedule and fare requirements, well the Cubs just won the World Series.
#33
Join Date: Nov 2006
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On a sidenote, I think Maury uses AA for his guests.
#34
Join Date: Jan 2007
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No idea how they're getting away with it. We're among those who pay for the long-haul BF to be sure they get seated together (and don't have to ask someone to switch) and to be sure we get BF seats. So we wouldn't even consider buying AA tickets now.
#35
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Are you seriously saying that you would not fly AA because they let someone from coach use the first class toilet? Plenty of reasons to choose CO over AA for long-haul, but this? The whole discussion of being seated together suggests that maybe you are confused, perhaps?
#36
Join Date: Jan 2007
Programs: CO
Posts: 238
No, I think it's indicative of the type of service. I have absolutely no problem with people coming up front when the back aisle is blocked, especially older people (some might think I am one of those myself now ) or children. But our last domestic flight we upgraded (gotta love a husband's FF status.) About every half hour for the whole 3 1/2 hour flight, a very large woman who obviously was bulkhead seats in Y for health problems, yanked herself up the aisle by pulling the seatbacks of both aisle seats while gasping for air to the front lav. I felt bad for her, and it was only a few hours during the day, but when AA announced this "improvement" all I could imagine was heading to Europe or the Middle East and getting a parade of that annoyance all night.
We do go paid BF for those trips, and it is expensive!
We do go paid BF for those trips, and it is expensive!
#37
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AA didn't suddenly invite and encourage Y pax to use J/C and F lavs earlier this year. All AA did was to end its systemwide ban on crossing between cabins when the TSA rules only required (and still require) the announcements on inbound international flights.
You're free not to fly AA. No skin off my nose. But your decisons really shouldn't be guided by someone's mistaken analysis.
#38
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: DFW
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I think ya'll should get all the details before berating the OP for not giving his wife the BF seat. Perhaps she is two months pregnant and perhaps the OP has a condition that necessitates the need for a more comfy seat.
#39
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is the interpretation any different if you left it in normal font?
jake jarmel wouldn't approve.
#40
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#41
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If someone is really that averse to being disrupted, then they should pick a window seat or a middle seat in the center section. It's a fact of life that people have to get out of their seats every so often. Now we're supposed to differentiate among the various reasons why they might get up?
#42
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Sorry, but wifey should always get the better seat Mr. Baglady is almost a foot taller than I, but would never, ever, let me sit in the back while he is up front. It's in the prenup
#43
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Pregnant wife in BF with me in Y = waste of 9 hours of free booze.
Pregnant wife in Y with me in BF = waste of 9 MONTHS of my happiness.
Pregnant wife in Y with me in BF = waste of 9 MONTHS of my happiness.
#44
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