Originally Posted by
pinelake
I don't believe Frontier should have put me in this awkward position.
Asking you to change seats with someone? The next time it could be you who asked for such help. Perhaps you have to travel with an elderly parent or young child for an emergency at short notice, and there are not two adjacent seats. Or perhaps only window seats are available, which is trouble for your claustrophobia. You'd likely look for someone to switch seats for you.
You certainly have the right to choose to retain your original seat, and perhaps you feel the F/A should not have asked you a second time. But the next time it may be you who needs someone to change seats. It is fully reasonable for the F/A to have asked.
Originally Posted by
pinelake
Those passengers should have been put on their original flight.
If those two passenges had been originally booked on your flight, how would that have made the least bit of difference?
You cannot fault Frontier for putting those two people on an earlier flight. What, should the Frontier agent have recognized that those two passengers were undesirable and insisted that the people on their originally-booked flight should be subjected to them, not people on a different flight? That's absurd. For all you know, those two seats opened up on your flight because Frontier put two even more objectionable passengers on an earlier flight.
As for the lousy things you experienced on your flight, clearly they were unfortunate. Sometimes life sucks. But were those things the fault of the airline? No. Can you possibly think that the same thing could not have happened to you flying a different US domestic airline in coach?
Your experience makes a good cocktail party anecdote, and you're very justified in bemoaning the lousy experience you had. It was a flight from hell. But the result of unreasonable actions by Frontier Airlines? Nope.
Originally Posted by
pinelake
These type of things never happen to me in Asia. Air Asia (for example) uses new & comfortable aircraft, kind & attractive FA's, modern & stylish airports.
Flying in much of non-western world is not of the masses like it is in the US. Comparing international travel in Asia versus the US domestic coach is somewhat apples and oranges. US domestic passengers have overwhelmingly shown time and again that, for the
most part, they want cheap fares above all else no matter what lip service they pay to quality.