Mike Skyflier

I would have decked him! At 60 years of age I still cant control those red mist moments!

origin

Maybe less coffee needed.

I wouldnt do anything silly on a plane. the police officers turn up with guns on every occasion. Judges get a little upset.

Ancient Observer

Folk like that........
They should certainly not be allowed to breed........

IntVic

As others have said, if sitting together was so important to them why didn't they sort that out as GCHs. Glad OP sat in his seat as if there is one thing that gets my goat is when people are demanding and pushy without any sort of justification. Mind you I would have told them it cost me £200 to reserve my seat and if they can cough up the cash there and then, I'd happily move otherwise, divider up and good night...muppets!

nd100

And for good reason. If every passenger up there entertained a visitor it would be more crowded (and noisier) than WT.

flatlander

Summary:
"We both want to sit on the upper deck, so you move!"

"No."

Indeed if they wanted to sit together they could have asked the other person the lower inner seat pair to move upstairs; any knowing single traveller would be up there immediately.

ukgooner

In these situations people have to understand - and a frequent flier almost certainly does - that the seat switch proposed is not equal.

Its quite transparent what they were trying to do: they couldn't both sit upstairs, so they thought they'd chance splitting and persuading some sucker to swap. I find it hard to believe this was about siting together, as there are plenty of ways to resolve that. And as others have said, it would have been a better trade to ask someone from downstairs to swap with her.

The other option is to ask for some cash for the swap. Many people pay quite a premium to reserve a seat up there. £100 cash in hand would have done it for me.

But no need to move. There are loads of reasons for refusing, particularly in this case. They were chancers, and it didnt work. And to continue to chunter away throughout the flight is unforgivable.

ne52

I'd throw it back on the husband with my usual line:

"If sitting together was really that important to you, why didn't you book seats together instead of expecting everyone else to play musical chairs?"

Fraser

Sounds almost identical to a situation I came across on LHR-JFK earlier in the year.

Couple in their late 50s/60s I'd guess, husband gets pulled over for secondary at the gate and I board right behind the wife. I'm in 64K and she says to the welcoming FA upstairs, "My husband is Gold or whatever, but we're not sitting together" and demanded people be moved about. I have my large rollerboard on the storage bin, already open as I'm about to change in the toilet and I hear the FA say, "He looks like he's already rather settled". The guy in either 64A/B shows up and the couple plus FA manage to sweet talk him into taking 64J. He didn't seem too bothered by it but given this woman's attitude I would have expected an almost identical response to yours had he not helped out.

My only guess in your case is that they couldn't pre-assign upper deck seats together so found it better to pick one up there and then hope someone who doesn't care about their seats was willing to swap. Similarly in my case I was pretty certain they took any two upper deck seats as a pair wasn't available and banked on an easy switch.

SteveF

Saltire74

FrogTastic

fredc84

Flying on the upper deck in Sept for the first time...now I'm going to be primed for something like this...LOL.

Phil the Flyer

ginger50

Fortunately for the rest of us they couldn't because they weren't sat together!