Originally Posted by
jp12687
with covid I could see that-- maybe. Things go wrong you can't always sit with others. My issue is the not like for like seat swap they want to do and then when you say no giving you a hard time.
I think I posted this in this thread several years ago EWR-HKG I always booked a bulkhead middle seat in first. That way I had direct aisle access and the larger footwell. Someone wanted to sit in my seat next to someone. I said no and to check if the other person wants to upgrade for more leg room and they sit in the back-- they got angry with me, yelled at me, and then proceeded to encroach over the shared armrest for the next 16 hours.
Agreed before the switch to the new Polaris seats that really was the only seat I wanted when I flew (I did sometimes end up somewhere else-- but more often then not I got that seat). People always had a reason to want to move into it-- but its a 16+ hour flight I was taking every 6-7 weeks I wanted to be comfortable and had planned ahead accordingly.
One time a WNBA player was on the plane and had asked someone in the window seat in that row to swap so she could have extra room. They said yes-- she was TALL