Originally Posted by
justhere
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In the case of claiming that even one seat saver devalues EBCI purchases, to prove that false, there just needs to be one example of one seat saver not devaluing an EBCI purchase....
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situation A) EBCI passenger gets shooed away by a seat-saver
situation B) EBCI passenger does not get shooed away by a seat-saver
Both situations A) and B) have happened many, many times. Therefore it is false to claim that just one seat-saver has
no effect on EBCI. It happens every day, not just every once in a while.
If you board early, "save" a seat but either 1) no one else wants to sit there before your friend arrives; or 2) someone else wants to sit there and you let them, then you are not a seat-saver, because your actions had no effect on anyone else's boarding priority.