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Old Jan 24, 2015 | 4:10 pm
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Originally Posted by xolinlevh
I dont even see that type of customer going for an E fare. Say its a family like you say....would they really want to forgo seat assignments? have the whole family (mom/dad/kids/etc) spread around the plane wherever there are open seats?
They buy E fares or refuse to pay to book seats on other fares and then at boarding expect others to give up good seats so that *everyone* in the entire family can sit together (in good EC seats, of course, with never an offer to trade whatever better seat assignments they might have).
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