Originally Posted by
Katja
So I'm a wheelchair user and need an aisle chair to board. A fair number of times, usually on an RJ, I never manage to get the GA to figure out that my seat assignment is completely impractical. They haul me on board the plane, the aisle chair guys and the purser *know* they'll never get me in to my assigned seat, so they put me wherever is convenient. Now I'm sitting in someone else's seat before s/he boards, I can't physically move to another seat, and it's kind of hard to explain that I'm not an evil seat poacher (at least not intentionally).
Any suggestions for my situation?
My understanding is the idea behind an aisle chair is that it is capable of moving someone who cannot walk down the aisle (hence the name). How is it that your seat assignment is so unpractical? I think the more probable reasoning was in your post: " so they put me wherever is convenient".
I've seen the aisle chairs used to take people many rows back, I would guess the "convenient" placement you speak of is the first rows, and I would also guess your then asking whomever seat that was to take yours, no thanks.
Book early, pick your seat, if thats not possible work with the GA to figure it out before boarding.