Originally Posted by
MoreMiles
AC should implement a rule with their mobile credit card machine.
"Sir, would you like to purchase 2 extra seats? That will be $2000 payable right now. No? In that case, Air Canada is hereby reassigning the vacant seat to another passenger in your row. You don't own the right to use those vacant seats. Still refused to move... Air Marshall, code 13 at row 23, stat, I repeat code 13 stat"
I think most people will find the OP unreasonable. With his analogy, he can use an entire row of unsold Hilton hotel rooms? "But they are vacant? So I decided to open the adjacent room door to connect them!"
Oh, I'm so glad this thread was started...I've been wanting to ask this for a while:
If AC starts up selling vacant preferred seating after boarding is completed (like UA supposedly does with it's E+ seats), then will those people who are already in preferred seating be given the opportunity to pay the up sell amount to keep an adjacent seat unoccupied? By extension, the same could be applied to unoccupied standard seats.
Or have I become an unethical Grinch?