Wanderlust888

Pre check-in

I am Silver and the system allocated me 5C in first row of Euro Traveller. I believe 5B was blocked because 5A was a Gold.

Upon boarding

5A, 5C, 5E, 5F (and in Club Europe 4A, 4C, 4F) were occupied.
The guy in 5C said that he was meant to be in 5D but needed the aisle space for his right leg which was in a bandage thing. So I had to sit in 5D.

Other outcomes?

How would a seasoned Flyertalker make the most of this situation? Invite staff to find me another aisle seat next to an empty one? Plead for upgrade to 4D in Club? Try to get the Gold in 5A an upgrade into 4D so I could have 5A? Ask for a free G&T?

To Eat.To Drink

Are you being serious? Sit in 5D and enjoy the flight.

rossmacd

None of the above. Move on with life, and hope that the gent's injury/condition improves.

Can I help you

This has to be a joke!

florens

Ehm, sit in 5D and that's about it.

rapidex

Is 5D not an isle seat?

cgtechuk

Did your boarding pass say 5C or 5D?

MSPeconomist

Who had a boarding pass for 5C? In fact, are you sure he even had a boarding pass for 5D versus poaching a seat in row 5 when he had been assigned a middle in the last row?

CountryKerry

I really hope the disabled man deprives you of more in life to be frank. How disgusting do you have to be to post on this forum these days?

Can I help you

And a sick joke.

theddo

I can certainly understand the frustration since a need for additional space for a bandaged leg was well known long before check-in and boarding, and it shouldn't have taken until you were in your seat to find out you needed to move.

But regardless you would've been told, not asked, to move for a disabled passenger.

origin

Many people around the world deal with health issues on a daily basis. Things that a normal person can do, can often cause pain to them. people with hidden health problems are discriminated daily as a result. You just have to see the people parking in a disabled parking space without correct badge to see people intentionally hurt people without a thought to them.

Posts like this dont help anyone at any time.

DYKWIA

FT tonight is like a novel I can't put down.... It's past 3am where I am, and I need to go to sleep! Then this comes along

Fitch

I'm confused...

You had a BP for 5C (aisle seat) and ended up in 5D (aisle seat, same row).

So what ?

EDIT: now I see, on "your" side of the aisle the middle seat was free but when you moved it was occupied. Welcome to my world where even as a GGL my elbows get cosy more often than not with a pax in B or E... And in any case you were only surfing on A's status so suck it up

MSPeconomist

The OP was *told* to move by a fellow passenger, not airline staff. For all we know, the disabled man had been told by BA to take an aisle seat in a different row. In addition, he might have had a boarding pass for a totally different row; there's no proof here that his assigned seat was in row 5. If BA wants to tell (order) the OP to switch seats with another passenger, either a staff/crew member should communicate this to the OP or the OP should have been given a new boarding pass with a different seat number (and ideally both of these things should have happened). Otherwise, OP still "owns" the original seat on the boarding pass and can decide/choose whether or not to swap seats with another passenger for any reason (or no reason at all).