DM Seat Blocking
DM Seat Blocking
May 19, 2008 | 7:41 am
#6
Join Date: Nov 2006
Programs: MPC,CA,MU,AF
Posts: 8,171
You can start to become antisocial at GO, as I heard that GO can do that too (I have never done that when I was a GO though)
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Of course, if you are a 1P/1K on UA, they want you to be antisocial, they will automatically block the seat next to you. I was forced to be so antisocial that once I had to sit alone on the other side of the aisle so that at least my family was only across the aisle from me.
.Of course, if you are a 1P/1K on UA, they want you to be antisocial, they will automatically block the seat next to you. I was forced to be so antisocial that once I had to sit alone on the other side of the aisle so that at least my family was only across the aisle from me.
May 19, 2008 | 1:48 pm
#7
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: London UK
Programs: AA,UA,CX
Posts: 250
Seat Block
On the first flight after I became DIAMOND, they blocked the whole row, but then a guy swa wmpty seats and you guess. Anyway it is difficoult to sleep on a 77W in Y, even having a whole row for yourself, that dman bulge on the seat belt.
May 20, 2008 | 3:49 am
#10
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Hong Kong
Programs: No longer Diamond and missing the good old days of CX
Posts: 1,521
Beware - I was assigned a G seat last time and was supposed to have the whole row of 4 to myself (flight was only 30% full), but Mr. Selfish decided to sit in D and asked me to move to one of the rows of 3 in the back. I was in no mood to argue with him and moved myself... 
May 20, 2008 | 4:28 am
#11
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: HK
Programs: CX DM / Bonvoy LTT
Posts: 299
Beware - I was assigned a G seat last time and was supposed to have the whole row of 4 to myself (flight was only 30% full), but Mr. Selfish decided to sit in D and asked me to move to one of the rows of 3 in the back. I was in no mood to argue with him and moved myself...
May 20, 2008 | 7:10 am
#13
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Tokyo, Vancouver, Hong Kong, Dublin
Programs: CX DM
Posts: 880
Beware - I was assigned a G seat last time and was supposed to have the whole row of 4 to myself (flight was only 30% full), but Mr. Selfish decided to sit in D and asked me to move to one of the rows of 3 in the back. I was in no mood to argue with him and moved myself...
May 20, 2008 | 8:04 pm
#14
Original Member
Join Date: May 1998
Location: HKG
Programs: BA GGL, CX DM, AA LT GO, Marriott LT Titanium, Shangri-La DM, Hyatt Globalist, Hilton DM
Posts: 2,030
this is good to know...I also have been in that situation before where my seat blocking was then taken up by someone else...(but I also remember once where it's one of the FAs who asked the other pax to take that seat, maybe she didn't check the manifest beforehand?)
May 20, 2008 | 8:35 pm
#15
Join Date: Nov 2006
Programs: MPC,CA,MU,AF
Posts: 8,171
I lost my blocked seat once. The gate agent reassigned a passenger to the blocked seat. There were other seats available. In this situation, this person was flying with an old couple and they were transiting in HKG. The old couple ordered special meals and could not speak English. So this person had to take care of them. It was understandable, but I lost the blocked seat.