How do you handle someone sitting in your seat when you board?
Nov 20, 2015, 3:54 pm
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It's not theft of transportation because presumably they paid for the transportation (else they shouldn't have been able to board). It might be theft of services if there are services associated with that seat that they didn't pay for.
Nov 24, 2015, 11:57 am
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I've switched with people several times as a courtesy, then a couple months ago due to a screw up by the airline (put on another flight 60 minutes before as original flight was cancelled), my GF found herself in 20B (middle) while I was in 12C (aisle). So she politely asked the guy in 20C (aisle) if he would move ahead to my seat - 12C and we would swap overhead bags too so he would not have to find space. He refused. 12C would've actually been a better seat for him as it's closer to the exit when the plane lands.
Oh well, not accommodating anyone going forward, it does not pay to be nice these days....nobody has any courtesy and it's everyone for themselves.
Oh well, not accommodating anyone going forward, it does not pay to be nice these days....nobody has any courtesy and it's everyone for themselves.
It's not discourteous to refuse a seat swap request. It was his to give away, not yours to demand.
Nov 24, 2015, 12:21 pm
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I would add that Mr. 20C might have had his own reasons for not wanting to swap seats with you and those reasons were none of your business. You were asking a favor and he had every right to refuse your request (which unfortunately seems to have been stated as a demand) and to continue to sit in his assigned seat.
Nov 24, 2015, 12:37 pm
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Perhaps Mr 20C had the same experience and decided never to help someone again?
Where does it end? Can't we try to help each other out, or is it all about ME?
Nov 24, 2015, 12:50 pm
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Last Saturday I got on an American Eagle flight CLT-STL. I had seat 4A, the last row in F. The GA had handwritten "4A" on my boarding pass. There was a guy in my seat. He got up without a protest and walked back to what I presume was his originally ticketed seat in Y. The FA back there gave him a look when he saw him coming.
First time that has happened to me.
Odd thing was that, after I was seated and they were about the close the door, the GA came onto the plane to hand me a new BP. This one was actually printed (not handwritten) and said my seat was now 1A. There was someone in 1A, so I just stayed where I was. Not sure what that was about...but it was also the first time a GA has met me on the plane.
First time that has happened to me.
Odd thing was that, after I was seated and they were about the close the door, the GA came onto the plane to hand me a new BP. This one was actually printed (not handwritten) and said my seat was now 1A. There was someone in 1A, so I just stayed where I was. Not sure what that was about...but it was also the first time a GA has met me on the plane.
Nov 25, 2015, 9:37 am
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Still, despite having made (not so) bad experience like this, I would swap seats any time if a proper reason would be given to me.
Nov 26, 2015, 6:02 am
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The SQ passengers who wanted to move were probably high level elites. You're lucky you weren't just ordered to move.
Nov 26, 2015, 11:30 am
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Nov 26, 2015, 4:45 pm
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Nov 26, 2015, 10:40 pm
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Nov 27, 2015, 4:12 pm
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I would have walked back during the flight to the people who switched with me and said sarcastically, "good one."
Nov 27, 2015, 4:52 pm
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Am I reading your post correctly: You are saying that you are now going to refuse to be nice to others because someone was not nice to you?
Perhaps Mr 20C had the same experience and decided never to help someone again?
Where does it end? Can't we try to help each other out, or is it all about ME?
Perhaps Mr 20C had the same experience and decided never to help someone again?
Where does it end? Can't we try to help each other out, or is it all about ME?
Nov 27, 2015, 8:45 pm
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That really is not the point. The poster was whining that because someone else was not accommodating to her, she would not accommodate others in the future.