tom139

Had a bizarre situation yesterday when I boarded a 777 via D1L to see a couple already sat comfortably in 1E & 1F in sleep suits drinking champagne. These happened to be our allocated seats as part of a group of 5...totalling 1A,1E,1F,1K & 2A.

I pointed this out to the crew and they immediately asked the couple to take their allocated seats. They were not happy that as 'First Class Passengers' they were split up and the fact that we were travelling as a group made no difference to them. They proceeded to say it was 'wrong' for them to be split up. Then the plot thickened....it appears that one of the passengers didn't actually hold an F ticket and was meant to be in J. Allegedly her husband had 'paid a lot of money' for her to be able to sit with him in F and swapped with the original passenger in J sorting out the 'transaction' between themselves. I didn't know this was allowed? Or I guess it doesn't make much difference to the crew?

The passengers then proceeded to get very drunk and decided they wanted breakfast at 20 minutes to landing and were disappointed when they were told it was a no...

I don't know how crew do it sometimes!

crazy8534

Ha ha! Agree about the poor crew...

...although it it does raise the question of how much money it would take to be persuaded to move to the CW dorm from F?

Ł2k would probably do it for me, but then I don't realy need the cash..

TabTraveller

I'm unclear as to whether the crew moved these passengers back to their original seats or they stayed sat in your seats?

lost_in_translation

I think I would do it for a little over Ł1k each way for a window seat in CW, few hundred pounds more would probably be required for other seats, if anyone is offering!

What a bizarre situation.

tom139

The passengers were moved back to their seats. I wasn't budging from our assigned seats!

RockyRobin

Both in F?

tom139

Yes the crew didn't seem bothered about the previous 'transaction' between the F passenger and the CW passenger.

RockyRobin

Fair enough.

Their logic would have severely challenged my patience, the audacity of some people!

T8191

A fine case of DYKWIA behaviour ... glad they were sent packing to their appropriate locations.

FlyingScientist

Do You Know Where I Am?

golfmad

Did you mean it was swapped with the original passenger in F (as opposed to J)?

Stripe

I would have asked to have the seats cleaned and restocked.

BA5E

Good for you i certainly would not have allowed them to get away with it you assigned yourself that seat and quite rightly you wanted that seat. We had a similar situation this year LHR - SIN A380 a pax was sitting happily in my husbands seat with pjs on and drinking champagne, the CSD very diplomatically said to the pax, after seeing my husbands boarding pass, i will move your drink sir and things over to your seat. No fuss was made by the pax who obviously realised he was in the wrong seat Window, and was hoping that no one would be sitting there, as probably he could not assign himself a window seat when he booked his flight.

tom139

This sounds very familiar...the pax in question asked for their belongings to be 'transferred' to their 'new'...errr...allocated seats by the crew! They did it too...not sure I'd have had the patience.

dougzz

I'm going to make a very naive remark as someone that has never travelled first. Given the small cabin and the staff ratio don't they walk you to the seat and do some sort of introduction, thus ensuring people are in the correct seats?
On two of my recent Finnair A350 flights in business, someone has immediately checked if I had travelled on that plane before and knew how everything worked, I'd sort of expect that in first.