Agree to all the above.

As well, whenever I offer to take a bump (and I do whenever I can..usually on the trip home as I can't chance it on a business trip out) I ask if this means I will lose the seat I already have. They always say, no. I ask, even though I alreadt know this. Can't hurt to re-inforce it! Being an elite, I usually have an F or a coach aisle emergency-row exit reserved so I REALLY don't want to give those up.

I have never gotten changed to a crappy seat when I didn't get bumped. Actually, the last times I have taken a bump I was put in F on carriers where I didn't even staus!

YES!

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There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

Robert Orben.