Switching seats in Y - etiquette
Dec 23, 2018, 2:25 pm
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There’s a sense in which those seats don’t cost extra—they cost extra to reserve in advance. They are distributed to non-paying passengers as the flight fills and seats are assigned. So in that way any passenger has equal “right” to them after it’s too late to reserve them.
Dec 23, 2018, 2:33 pm
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Look at it this way...you hadn't paid for an extra seat (does AC even allow that?) and the other guy HAD paid for a "whole seat". He was, quite possibly, going to lose some of his paid seat amenity being next to a POS... many of us have experienced that. By moving he took nothing from you that you had paid for, and merely ensured he got what HE paid for (use of the whole seat). True?
Dec 23, 2018, 3:43 pm
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Look at it this way...you hadn't paid for an extra seat (does AC even allow that?) and the other guy HAD paid for a "whole seat". He was, quite possibly, going to lose some of his paid seat amenity being next to a POS... many of us have experienced that. By moving he took nothing from you that you had paid for, and merely ensured he got what HE paid for (use of the whole seat). True?
heck, they should just go and grab an open seat in J!
At least they will get what they paid for!
True?
Dec 23, 2018, 3:44 pm
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Look at it this way...you hadn't paid for an extra seat (does AC even allow that?) and the other guy HAD paid for a "whole seat". He was, quite possibly, going to lose some of his paid seat amenity being next to a POS... many of us have experienced that. By moving he took nothing from you that you had paid for, and merely ensured he got what HE paid for (use of the whole seat). True?
Using GOGO in flight now on AC169. No Pax in the seat next to me this time and no one took it either, although its a middle seat this time.
I think the advice is grab it...and see....
Dec 23, 2018, 6:25 pm
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Dec 23, 2018, 6:56 pm
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Even if the other passenger had moved into a seat which required payment of a fee, that is a matter between that other passenger and AC.
As others note, I would have moved into the seat just as the flight was closing. If someone assigned to the seat comes running on at the last second, just move back. He who hesitates is lost (and does lose).
As others note, I would have moved into the seat just as the flight was closing. If someone assigned to the seat comes running on at the last second, just move back. He who hesitates is lost (and does lose).
Dec 24, 2018, 7:05 am
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Discovered while Q400 Zone 2 boarding last week already in the window seat was a VERY large passenger whose belly touched the seat in front. Impossible to lower my aisle seat arm rest. During the “We have a full flight recording…", my (on topic) pleading to a FA enabled a move to an unoccupied row. The FA commented about the "oversized" passengers get an extra seat policy.
The flight home had. a similar problem. This time a teenage girl “spread" into my seat but there were no empty seats. Very uncomfortable shoulder to hip to thigh to knee bodily contact for the entire thankfully short YYZ/YXU flight. She unsuccessfully tried to have me moved.
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