Originally Posted by
jsloan
You leave me no choice but to assume that your seats in the manifest did not match what was printed on your boarding pass, and that the FA told you as much.
If that is the case, you were not being asked to "give up your seat involuntarily," but rather to take your assigned seat.
The fact that your assigned seat had, at one point, been different is, in my opinion, irrelevant.
Originally Posted by
jsloan
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I'm taking the position that you don't have a right to sit in a particular seat just because you have a piece of paper.
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You're normally one of the voices of reason here, but I'm puzzled by your argument in this case. It seems like it's borderline gospel at FT that pax shouldn't leave/change their seat unless handed a new b.p. by the GA. When did that change? How could a person with a scanned b.p. showing seat 21C who is sitting in 21C somehow be in the wrong?