My boss now has a blood feud with Cathay, for the opposite reason.

He was sitting alone in one of the bassinet seats on a Cathay flight from Europe. Two seats were already occupied with gwailo (his wording). There was one vacant bassinet seat.

A baby needed the bassinet seat. No problem, there was one vacant bassinet seat. My boss moved aside so the aisle bassinet seat became available. He said he's okay with the basket coming down in front of him.

But the parents demanded two seats. A Hongkie FA asked one of the three seated passengers to move. One of the gwailo succinctly replied "I'm fine with my seat".

The bit that pissed off my boss to no end is that the FA then decided to turn on him. Threatened him with the Captain if he didn't move. My boss called the dare, esp since she didn't threaten the two gwailo with the Captain either (obviously my boss is HK Chinese so he felt this was rascist treatment).

The FA backed down and only one of the parents got a bassinet seat, but not without having my boss go out of his way to fly Qantas and Jet these days.

I feel the FA asked my boss the wrong way, but otherwise should my boss have moved? Are two parents necessary to operate the bassinet, or simply preferable?