Originally Posted by
HeatSeeker
Seriously? She cried cause she could not sit next to her friend? Please tell me they were 5-year-old unaccompanied minors and thats the key piece of this story, because that is just ridiculous.
Hand to heart, seriously. Maybe she was crying because she was upset and her friend wanted to sit next to her to comfort her? But no, these were grown women, easily in their 30's, not children. And as they were boarding the plane behind me I heard their ongoing conversation for quite awhile...neither sounded particularly upset about anything. You know how when you fly you sometimes feel like you've seen everything? Well now I've seen that.
Originally Posted by
airplanegod
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I myself never got the need to sit next to a friend/family member on a flight. It's a 16 hour flight at most, i'm sure you can just get up and go talk with them. I get that it's nice to "stay together" but unless you are with small children or someone who needs extra assistance, you don't NEED to be together on a plane.
Please, I'm right there with you. My husband and I have had separate seats plenty of times, sometimes it's necessary due to the seating configuration as I'll sit with our son & the better half will sit elsewhere. If it's vital that we sit together I book the seats together. Simple. Sometimes we've had to reschedule a flight and get stuck seated away from each other. Darling I'll miss you but I can live for those few hours without you. If I simply can't stand it I'll walk past your seat and gaze at you
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Plus these two women were one right behind the other. They could have whispered to each other, passed notes, whatever for the entire 6 hours it took to get to LHR.
Originally Posted by
theddo
I've said so before - some people who cannot perform their work properly should be fired or flogged.
However I've found that a simple "No, I will not" suffice. No room to argue, no options. I'm not moving to a middle seat because you'd prefer not to sit there and I don't care why you didn't make appropriate plans if it was that important to you, and then the FA goes away and tries to bully someone else instead.
Again, the gent in the aisle seat was a total rock star. He remained calm and had rational answers for everything. I was thinking "another FTer?" because he was so quick with his rational responses that really couldn't be argued with (though the FA did try...and try). I was just amazed at the offer to move him to an aisle in economy like she was doing him a favor.