Flight Attendant "Ahh Sir, doing the good deed"
Jan 12, 2012, 7:19 pm
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Flight Attendant "Ahh Sir, doing the good deed"
I didn't want to make this long but read on...
I suppose I did a good deed? Wanted to be seated with my SO!
Today traveling with my SO, JFK-SFO, upgrade list not too deep, only about 30 people or so. I'm on a paid fare, SO on mileage tix, chances of an complimentary upgrade -100% and beyond. No big deal, we are both in EC and I dismissed the idea of even making the upgrade on a Thursday evening flight as Diamond on a T fare. I don't recall seeing many FC seats left open upon checking in and I was something like #5 or 6 but again didn't care!
Anyways, I went to the gate, BEEP BEEP, to my surprise I cleared. Earlier in the day I was joking with my SO that I called and upgraded my ticket to first class. Then comes the stare/blank look from her that will be the death of me. Looked at my SO and said "Hunny don't worry, someone will be happy to switch!"
After everyone boards, next to my SO in EC is a child in the middle seat, mom in aisle, seats 20BC and her other daughter in 20D, both girls under 10. Uh ohs. I go to the EC section and I knew this was going to be trouble. I said, do you want a first class seat, the mom looks at me bug eyed as in her and the girls are staying together
!
quick intermission... - I did try to get my SO to take the upgrade but she of course just wanted to be seated together and didn't care one bit for the upgrade.
Back to trying to find someone who wants my First Class seat, JFK-SFO???
I go back to the front cabin, a few minutes passed and the mother with the girls seemed to have figured out a solution. 20E was empty, 20D young daughter, 20F random woman. The mother asked the lady in 20F if she wanted to switch so she and her girls can have a whole row for themselves. Lady accepts, I also believe she didn't have a clue that I was trying to give up my seat in First. Anyways, she now in 20C, 20B empty, 20A my SO. I come back to get 20B, hooray!? I then realized I didn't want to be cramped in a middle seat so I told the lady in 20C who before was in 20F that she should go take my first class seat.
Lady in 20C: "me, really" Me: "yes, take it, go" Lady: "WOW, OK, Sounds good too me!" - Lady was so excited and literally jumped up and grabbed her things.
I don't think I'll ever be that patient again to give up my F seat, haha.
In the end the young girls were going back and forth with the mother saying, I would have taken first class mommy. As in the little girl would have left her mom for the seat, haha!
Fun times
Cheers~!
I suppose I did a good deed? Wanted to be seated with my SO!
Today traveling with my SO, JFK-SFO, upgrade list not too deep, only about 30 people or so. I'm on a paid fare, SO on mileage tix, chances of an complimentary upgrade -100% and beyond. No big deal, we are both in EC and I dismissed the idea of even making the upgrade on a Thursday evening flight as Diamond on a T fare. I don't recall seeing many FC seats left open upon checking in and I was something like #5 or 6 but again didn't care!
Anyways, I went to the gate, BEEP BEEP, to my surprise I cleared. Earlier in the day I was joking with my SO that I called and upgraded my ticket to first class. Then comes the stare/blank look from her that will be the death of me. Looked at my SO and said "Hunny don't worry, someone will be happy to switch!"
After everyone boards, next to my SO in EC is a child in the middle seat, mom in aisle, seats 20BC and her other daughter in 20D, both girls under 10. Uh ohs. I go to the EC section and I knew this was going to be trouble. I said, do you want a first class seat, the mom looks at me bug eyed as in her and the girls are staying together
!quick intermission... - I did try to get my SO to take the upgrade but she of course just wanted to be seated together and didn't care one bit for the upgrade.
Back to trying to find someone who wants my First Class seat, JFK-SFO???
I go back to the front cabin, a few minutes passed and the mother with the girls seemed to have figured out a solution. 20E was empty, 20D young daughter, 20F random woman. The mother asked the lady in 20F if she wanted to switch so she and her girls can have a whole row for themselves. Lady accepts, I also believe she didn't have a clue that I was trying to give up my seat in First. Anyways, she now in 20C, 20B empty, 20A my SO. I come back to get 20B, hooray!? I then realized I didn't want to be cramped in a middle seat so I told the lady in 20C who before was in 20F that she should go take my first class seat.
Lady in 20C: "me, really" Me: "yes, take it, go" Lady: "WOW, OK, Sounds good too me!" - Lady was so excited and literally jumped up and grabbed her things.
I don't think I'll ever be that patient again to give up my F seat, haha.
In the end the young girls were going back and forth with the mother saying, I would have taken first class mommy. As in the little girl would have left her mom for the seat, haha!
Fun times
Cheers~!
Last edited by krpjr; Jan 12, 2012 at 7:44 pm
Jan 12, 2012, 7:36 pm
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Sounds like the little girl was one of the smartest passengers on the plane imo!
Jan 12, 2012, 7:47 pm
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Jan 12, 2012, 7:52 pm
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Why didn't you decline the upgrade if you knew you wanted to sit to with your companion? This way it would have gone to another medallion. Sounds like shena to me.
Jan 12, 2012, 8:40 pm
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! As an engineer, I think 2 steps ahead and make the most simplistic situations very complex. Just how things are done, haha.
I apologize to any fellow medallions out there in the sea or any whom were on board this flight! But too be honest, we were boarding during Zone 4. I' m a bit more happy that I knew the seat went to a customer and not a NRSA
! Wasn't sure if I told the GA I decline, if the next medallion would have received the upgrade.
Jan 12, 2012, 9:17 pm
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Last time I was flying together with my wife JFK>SEA (#1 on upgrade list) I just went to the gate agent and asked her to remove me from upgrade list and double check that we still have seats together. 1 minute work.
It's better for everyone this way.
It's better for everyone this way.
Jan 12, 2012, 10:28 pm
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If I were on this flight and were the first medallion to miss the UG, I'd be upset. And I make it a point to wait until all of F has boarded, because there have been times where I was "n+1" out of "n" seats available and one of the higher medallions didn't show up (or took themselves off the UG list).
Jan 13, 2012, 12:06 am
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I've been known to begrudgingly decline an upgrade or two to sit with my SO, but never on a TCON. If she ever asks me to decline JFK-SFO I hope there's an attractive woman next to me in F 'cause I'll be 'upgrading' in more ways than one!
Jan 13, 2012, 12:13 am
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I've done this once or twice for military folks in uniform. If it's a relatively short flight and I'm not stuck way in back. One time there were a few soldiers on my flight when I offered one of them my seat, they went on to play rock/scissors/paper to see who got it. Fun times. Felt good.
Jan 13, 2012, 1:13 am
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I've been upgraded at the gate before with the wife, even after being on same pnr. And she gets Y while I get the F. Of course I always switch with the pax next to the wife, but it should be both of us upgraded or none of us upgraded, but never seems to happen that way.