Originally Posted by
ThatT1Feeling
I was on a domestic last week where a couple clearly tried to sneak into CE and were send back to their proper seats by the SCCM. The frustrating thing here is that there doesn't seem to be a sanction against these people. If the worst that can happen is being sent back to your assigned seats, then there is no reason not to try it on every flight. If they were asked to pay the fare difference, or repeat offenders charged with fraud, then it may be a different matter.
Fraud? Are you serious?
What do you suggest the sanction to be then? I think you are seriously exaggerating, making it sound like a criminal offence! God forbid I sit in another empty seat if I don't like my assigned one and there is a better one empty because I did not pay for it, I am in trouble?
If the OP story person got away with it, good for them! The worst thing that should happen is they are sent back to their seats, it's up to crew to enforce this and that's that.