Originally Posted by Mr. Roboto
This happened to me too on Aloha Airlines from HNL-SNA. I requested an aisle seat and was assigned 1C, when I got on the plane,
Dr. Robert H. Schuller of the
CRYSTAL CATHEDRAL was seated there. I politely told him that he was in my seat and showed him my boarding pass. The jerk didn't even look at it and told me "No, you're in 1A, I always get an aisle seat." I again attempted to show him my boarding pass with 1C printed on it and he still insisted that I was in 1A. Anyway, by this time coach class was boarding and it was a full flight, and I didn't want to obstruct boarding in the single-aisle aircraft (B737-700), so I just reluctantly relegated my self to 1A. Fortunately, no middle seat and no hygienically challenged passengers up front.
BTW a few years back maybe five to seven Dr. Schuller made the newspapers for his conduct on an airplane. My memory is hazy as to the specifics. What I do seem to recall is that it involved his coat, a stewardess and a comment similar to “do you know who I am?”