Originally Posted by
Orwaid
she starts rambling about how all the seats are good ones.
BS as all Devolve seats suck. Middle Devolve seats really suck.
Originally Posted by
smmrfld
OP, before you go on another rant, you should make sure your facts are correct. WN has no policy at all regarding seat saving. You made a fool of yourself for no reason.
The OP did not make a fool of him or herself. This seat saving thing is getting out of hand.
Originally Posted by
Orwaid
1) that is the whole point. Southwest has open seating, meaning I can take any seat that someone is not sitting in. I know exactly what is going on.
+1
Originally Posted by
SANdyFlyer
But Southwest doesn't formally define what an 'open seat' is. YOU are the one who chooses to arbitrarily define it as 'any seat without a warm body in it, at some specific moment in time'. Unfortunately, many FAs don't share that definition with you.
BS! An open seat is one that does not have a butt in it. The teen said she was saving them for her parents. Too bad.
Originally Posted by
SANdyFlyer
I agree that a case can be made that a more defined seating policy is needed, and might even grumble about it on FT, but I would NEVER get into a confrontational situation over this.
Some of us just don't want to be sheep.
Originally Posted by
bmrisko
Hey if you REALLY want to sit in an aisle seat, go to the ticket counter and pay for A1-A15 boarding. If you don't do that, you get what you get. Too bad.
The OP didn't need to buy a BS ticket to get an aisle seat since there was one already open.
Originally Posted by
SANdyFlyer
But when walking up on a seat without someone in it, you don't have any context. For all you know, one of the following situations could be taking place:
- Couple comes upon two available seats, but there is not enough room in the overhead. One of the individuals walks to the back where there is space, and is fighting through the crowd to make their way back.
- Couple boards the plane, but one needs to make an emergency bathroom break before takeoff.
Using your logic of 'any empty seat is available', it should be OK for me to take an exit row seat mid-flight as soon as someone got up to use the restroom. If you wanted to have kept your exit row seat, you shouldn't have gotten up! That interpretation of 'open seating' seems just as valid as any other...
The teen said she was "saving" them for her parents.