Originally Posted by
danielonn
I think it would be nice to be able to fly in a section of the plane that is quiet. If the airlines are subjecting us to pay extra fees then we should be able to at least score a section of the plane that is quiet with no middle seats.
I was once on a flight from HNL-SFO with an obese passenger next to me hogging my seat. The flight attendant did nothing about it after mentioning that I can't use the seat I paid for. While I understand the passenger is obese he should have bought the extra seat . I could not even put down my arm rest and the passenger's body was infringing on my space.
This also happened on a recent flight on Southwest the flight attendant allowed an obese passenger to sit next to me and he could barely put down his armrest.
My point is if the airline takes our seat assignment away and we are put in a bad seat we would complain. So by having this system there would be some complaints but not as many.
Lets see the airline shares my data with the TSA so the airline with the passenger signing up to my service should allow the service to gather info to get better seats. Its like on Facebook you "Allow" Facebook to get your profile info same here the airline is sharing your info with a 3rd party(my software) to get them a better seat. I know for a fact people would gladly pay a fee to get a better seat or be matched up with someone who can drive them home.
But the flaw in the plan is YOU may want to enter your data. But 5 / 10 / 50% of the plane does not. So the software becomes utterly useless, as it can't take into account your parameters effectively - you can't tell where children and babies are sitting, you can't see if your boss is on the flight etc. So in actual fact, software becomes more useless than not having it - as a human can do a common sense check and select a row that seems to be made up of single travellers (aisle and windows taken) whereas a family is more likely to have picked a complete row of 3 etc. There is simply no way the software, with only a portion of the plane participating, can get you a 'better' seat.
Besdies, do you really think people are going to start entering their weight on booking forms so you don't end up next to a linebacker?