<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by milehighj:
good publicity, no doubt.
but i wonder if they have considered the impact on PAYING passengers when the seat next to them (which may otherwise have been empty) is occupied by someone PAID (or at least SUBSIDISED) to sit there.</font>
It really isn't very different from FR's regular free seat offers - their regular pax are used to this sort of thing happening.