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Jun 27, 2012 | 7:03 pm

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Originally Posted by jchock1

I'm on a flight CLT-LAX next month, and in order to help ensure the seats next to me are unoccupied, I thought I might purchase a fully refundable ticket or 2, in the names of friends who aren't actually travelling, reserve the seats next to me for them, check them in via OLCI, and hope that unless the plane is completely full the seats next to me will remain empty, and then have the tickets refunded.

Wondering if anyone else has done something similar and if the tactic was successful. Anything in the terms and conditions, contract of carriage, etc. that this might run afoul of?

Nothing that I can think of off the top of my head in the CoC would stop you, but, are you going to pull a Forrest Gump and say "This seat's taken" if people try and move into it after the seatbelt sign is off?