[QUOTE=aacharya;21080393]All this tin-foil madness based on an "American Airlines" experience and example copied (poorly) from a good WSJ article?

Re: the BF example - the majority of passengers don't even care about seats if booked - they worry about it at the airport.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...le_Lifestyle_6

Sorry, I disagree with you. If I am doing a Trans Pacific or even Atlantic and I have a BF seat, I do not want the inside seat or worse, the middle of four, so I do think many BF pax do care about which seat they sit in.