scottsam66

You left the choice to her??? As your rear end is in her seat? Pretty presumptuous. I agree with everything you did except sitting in her seat. You couldn't have asker her when she arrived to her seat and ask from the window seat?

Dovster

Actually, when she arrived I stood up. It was just quicker and easier to get up and out from an aisle seat, if necessary, than from a window seat.

MSPeconomist

If someone is in my seat, they go. At that point I don't care what the offer or justification is, it's just wrong to take over my seat and settle in before asking. Plus, I don't want their cooties on my blanket and pillow.

puddinhead

I always travel with noise canceling headphones. If the kid gets violent it is the FA's problem to fix it.

Usually the passengers in the last row would like to move up.

What about tantrum kids with parents that ignore it? Some parents are responsible and some aren't. Hard to tell the difference by looking at them.

DYKWIA2014

+1

FlightNurse

So this morning flew ASH-ATL-PHX, on the ATL-PHX flight I boarded late when I went to my seat (4C) there was a women in my seat. So just to check me BP yup I had 4C, now mind you this women wouldn't look at me, so my gut was telling me she knew she wasn't in the correct seat. I asked the lady if she is in the right seat, her reply was "Go and take my seat." Now I don't mind changing seats if asked politely but to be dismissed, no freakn way. I asked her to please move to her own seat, by this time the FC FA asked if there was a problem, I explained to the FA that this women was sitting in my seat, and I was dismissed to sit in her original seat. The FA, then asked the women to please take her original seat, Well come to find out, she was sitting with her husband and wanted to sit with him. Now, if the women JUST told me what was happening I would have traded, no biggie, but to dismiss me, move your large arse... This is what I told her too, after 5 minutes she finally moved making a big scene and pulling the "DYKWIA" card. Her husband was embarrassed and apologized for her behavior.. He is a DM..

HMO

His wife or him - they could have asked for the first neighbor pax who had arrived.

He was trading a back aisle with a front middle. Probably same seat "value". But the most fair should be seating both in the back, to maximize the chances of changing.

355F1

Haha! You make me LoLoLoLoLLLLLLL!!!!!! ^

rylan

+1 from me as well. If someone asks nicely to swap seats (and their seat isn't one that I try to avoid) then I'd almost always agree to moving. Don't be sitting there trying to claim it and act dismissive and assume you get the seat. Rudeness gets no cooperation.

GRALISTAIR

Totally agree +1

Ebes1099

To be honest, I'd probably switch if she asked in a normal manner. Although, I've mostly always resided between the 90-100*W longitude lines so my flights are usually no more than 3-3.5 hours when I'm doing most of my flying domestically.

I remember flying with a buddy one time and we had intentionally booked aisle seats across from each other for both legs. I think something like AUS-IAH and IAH-FLL (probably on Continental back in the day). We get on the first flight and the people in the middle seats next to both of us ask if they can switch and I switched with one of them. We were joking about it and sure enough on the next flight the same thing happened, so I was nice and switched again. I don't suffer from any issues like people have mentioned so I'll usually bite the bullet and let someone sit next to their spouse/child/friend/whoever if they ask. To me, sitting in a middle seat isn't the end of the world, and if someone else cares enough to ask, then I'm fine with it.

And that's a ballsy move asking the person to switch from EC to non EC when that person is making a sacrifice for you. I would guess a majority of people would ask to switch the other way moving themselves out of EC. But I suppose there's people that just don't care much about others and would do it.

dorisrpas

From CNN.com

Jeanne Moos reports on retired FA and her Facebook page:

Seriously, who does this on a flight?

http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/vi...aming.cnn.html

miraclebear2003

Agree with both concepts. People have almost always been real nice about switching so my wife and I can sit together (most of our flights are together) so I will probably almost always offer to do the same. Last week when we got upgraded early there weren't any seats together. So I selected 1B and 2A to make it easier. Most of FC had boarded so I just asked if either would switch. The gentlemen in 2B said he would be glad to move up and sit with his father so everybody was happy

Cappex

What a story, Esltroy! Hope you are better by now.

Out of curiosity: Shouldn't the upgrades been given when scanning the boarding passes while boarding? I mean, what if the people were in the rest room? Or sitting in the SkyClub? In such a case they would lose their F seat? I did not know that this is possible... I think from now on I will always be super early ...

clr4t8koff

I was with you until your last sentence. A member of this board as tenured as you should know full well that whether or not someone was sitting in your seat for your flight, there was certainly someone sitting there the previous flight(s). Do you honestly think DL is changing those paper thin covers on their pillows after every flight? No! So if cooties is your concern I suggest you never touch another domestic FC pillow again or drop the phobia.

Being upset because someone was presumptuous and just took your seat without asking is one thing. Reverting back to the kindergarten playground and pulling the "cooties" card is another.