Would they upgrade a 'comfort seat' passenger to CE?
Mar 29, 2014, 8:24 am
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Would they upgrade a 'comfort seat' passenger to CE?
I wasn't on the flight so don't know the exact situation only what I was told.
Friend travelling in 1A said the passenger in 1C pulled out the middle table to use for drinks. 1A was told off by 1C when he also put his drinks on that table. Although he managed to get him to accept that 1B was a shared space and was no problem by that, another comment that he needed an extension seatbelt made me think he originally was in ET and purchased a comfort seat but was op-upped to CE to free up two seats in economy. That would explain why he thought 1B was his.
I can see the problem with upgrading someone who's purchased an extra seat. Do they refund the extra seat because in CE you're effectively getting 1.5 seats due to sharing the middle seat (or less on aircraft where the B seats are squished, apparently this aircraft had non convertible seating though) whereas in ET you'd effectively own the middle seat yourself.
If any of you bought an extra seat would you be happy with an op-up to CE or would you be demanding a refund of your extra seat? Of course if you get the C seat and your extra seat gets A then that'd be great news.
Friend travelling in 1A said the passenger in 1C pulled out the middle table to use for drinks. 1A was told off by 1C when he also put his drinks on that table. Although he managed to get him to accept that 1B was a shared space and was no problem by that, another comment that he needed an extension seatbelt made me think he originally was in ET and purchased a comfort seat but was op-upped to CE to free up two seats in economy. That would explain why he thought 1B was his.
I can see the problem with upgrading someone who's purchased an extra seat. Do they refund the extra seat because in CE you're effectively getting 1.5 seats due to sharing the middle seat (or less on aircraft where the B seats are squished, apparently this aircraft had non convertible seating though) whereas in ET you'd effectively own the middle seat yourself.
If any of you bought an extra seat would you be happy with an op-up to CE or would you be demanding a refund of your extra seat? Of course if you get the C seat and your extra seat gets A then that'd be great news.
Mar 29, 2014, 12:05 pm
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Mar 29, 2014, 2:39 pm
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I wasn't on the flight so don't know the exact situation only what I was told.
Friend travelling in 1A said the passenger in 1C pulled out the middle table to use for drinks. 1A was told off by 1C when he also put his drinks on that table. Although he managed to get him to accept that 1B was a shared space and was no problem by that, another comment that he needed an extension seatbelt made me think he originally was in ET and purchased a comfort seat but was op-upped to CE to free up two seats in economy. That would explain why he thought 1B was his.
I can see the problem with upgrading someone who's purchased an extra seat. Do they refund the extra seat because in CE you're effectively getting 1.5 seats due to sharing the middle seat (or less on aircraft where the B seats are squished, apparently this aircraft had non convertible seating though) whereas in ET you'd effectively own the middle seat yourself.
If any of you bought an extra seat would you be happy with an op-up to CE or would you be demanding a refund of your extra seat? Of course if you get the C seat and your extra seat gets A then that'd be great news.
Friend travelling in 1A said the passenger in 1C pulled out the middle table to use for drinks. 1A was told off by 1C when he also put his drinks on that table. Although he managed to get him to accept that 1B was a shared space and was no problem by that, another comment that he needed an extension seatbelt made me think he originally was in ET and purchased a comfort seat but was op-upped to CE to free up two seats in economy. That would explain why he thought 1B was his.
I can see the problem with upgrading someone who's purchased an extra seat. Do they refund the extra seat because in CE you're effectively getting 1.5 seats due to sharing the middle seat (or less on aircraft where the B seats are squished, apparently this aircraft had non convertible seating though) whereas in ET you'd effectively own the middle seat yourself.
If any of you bought an extra seat would you be happy with an op-up to CE or would you be demanding a refund of your extra seat? Of course if you get the C seat and your extra seat gets A then that'd be great news.
Mar 29, 2014, 2:41 pm
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I wasn't on the flight so don't know the exact situation only what I was told.
Friend travelling in 1A said the passenger in 1C pulled out the middle table to use for drinks. 1A was told off by 1C when he also put his drinks on that table. Although he managed to get him to accept that 1B was a shared space and was no problem by that, another comment that he needed an extension seatbelt made me think he originally was in ET and purchased a comfort seat but was op-upped to CE to free up two seats in economy. That would explain why he thought 1B was his.
I can see the problem with upgrading someone who's purchased an extra seat. Do they refund the extra seat because in CE you're effectively getting 1.5 seats due to sharing the middle seat (or less on aircraft where the B seats are squished, apparently this aircraft had non convertible seating though) whereas in ET you'd effectively own the middle seat yourself.
If any of you bought an extra seat would you be happy with an op-up to CE or would you be demanding a refund of your extra seat? Of course if you get the C seat and your extra seat gets A then that'd be great news.
Friend travelling in 1A said the passenger in 1C pulled out the middle table to use for drinks. 1A was told off by 1C when he also put his drinks on that table. Although he managed to get him to accept that 1B was a shared space and was no problem by that, another comment that he needed an extension seatbelt made me think he originally was in ET and purchased a comfort seat but was op-upped to CE to free up two seats in economy. That would explain why he thought 1B was his.
I can see the problem with upgrading someone who's purchased an extra seat. Do they refund the extra seat because in CE you're effectively getting 1.5 seats due to sharing the middle seat (or less on aircraft where the B seats are squished, apparently this aircraft had non convertible seating though) whereas in ET you'd effectively own the middle seat yourself.
If any of you bought an extra seat would you be happy with an op-up to CE or would you be demanding a refund of your extra seat? Of course if you get the C seat and your extra seat gets A then that'd be great news.
It just sounds like he was a very strange person. Maybe because he put the table out first he decided it was his, you know in the way children say, I got it first, so it's mine!
Last edited by Littlegirl; Mar 29, 2014 at 3:05 pm
Mar 29, 2014, 2:57 pm
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I have seen plenty of overweight, arrogant and selfish people travelling in CE over the years
But seriously, why are you assuming that someone has been upgraded just because they try to take 'ownership' of a space? I've seen similar behaviour when people think the space in front of the empty middle seat just belongs to them and go to extreme lengths to try to prove it.
Also, they surely would not put someone who needs two seats in the first row, since that has fixed armrests containing the tables, does it not?