Originally Posted by
belfordrocks
The likely scenario will be two people from the same company taking the same flight, thus only one extra seat between the two pax.
I suspect it may be an intra-company program. His description was that his son was guaranteed to have an empty seat beside him, not that he was given two seats. Almost just as good. I suppose if the meal was really good or had a good item I might want to insist on a tray for my imaginary friend in the empty seat.
Originally Posted by
pinniped
Why is the person on the other side relevant to the purchaser of the seat and the empty seat? I'd say the purchaser gets dibs on the underseat space. Other'n that, both pax will enjoy the fact that the empty seat is there.
There's a story about the Russian farmer who is told by a genie that he can have anything he wants, but his neighbor will get double. He asks the genie to poke one of his eyes out. I suppose I have a little of that Russian farmer in me. I wouldn't mind paying 50 percent more for a shared empty seat, but I just wouldn't be able to take paying 100 percent of the cost of a seat that was then used in part by another passenger who paid nothing. Just me.