KDCAflyer

I hold the attitude that the tradeoff of picking the aisle seat is that you have to get up to let other passengers out. No one should have a bad attitude about it, unless it becomes excessive.

MSPeconomist

Weren't there any elites on the upgrade list?

HWGeeks

No, I remember seeing 0 people on UG list and 1 on standby if I recall correctly. It's typically an elite lite flight.

But it is also typically a 1st class heavy flight so it's rare to see it with 1st empty but being that it was the 31st of December and traveling to the future that might have explained that.

slidergirl

Last Thursday, a packed flight LAX-SLC. Paid for C+. Got my aisle seat. A rather large gentleman takes the center seat. Armrest goes up, my shoulders are being pushed out. I have to sit sideways. A Red Coat comes by. I ask if something can be done. She says "he's not taking up half your seat." I say "but I can't sit straight." She says "Do you want me to take you off the flight?" I am floored at this. But, then the Red Coat herself was a POS, so she probably was upset that I dare ask about a fellow POS. I stayed where I was, twisted. And, the woman sitting in the window seat was squashed up against the wall. Coincidentally, across the aisle and one row back, there was a similar situation. The FA (NOT the Red Coat), moved that POS back to another seat - unfortunately, the man who replaced her ended up getting violently sick and vomited about an hour out. It was only a short flight, but my back was a mess the next day - try to stand for 8 hours with your back in pain...

So, I guess Delta's new standard is that a person must be taking half your seat before something will be done. In this case, "POS" has two meanings...

theddo

Armrest stays down. Problem solved.

Tomphot

So the POS was in the middle seat and taking up 1/4 of each of the other 2 seats, wouldn't that constitute 1/2 of a seat?

defrosted

I wish I could say this was unbelievable, but sadly it isn't. If people can't fit or stay between the armrests why should that be someone else's problem? Even if the armrest is down why people think it is ok to spill into other's space is beyond me. Even if they aren't a POS, people do this all the time, I hate to be rude back and jam my elbows into people, but is that what we have to resort to now?

MSPeconomist

Please report this to DL. The redcoat should have found a solution once the situation was brought to her attention.

pvn

I've been told (by customer care) that Delta does NOT have ANY policy on passengers of size, and that FAs and GAs are expressly prohibited from approaching POSs to ask them to buy a 2nd seat. Basically you're just screwed, if there's no other seat on the plane you can get off and take the next one or you can deal with it.

I would recommend you file a complaint, let them try to throw some miles at you, and push back on them.

pvn

Delta's position is that the red coat DID find a "solution" (from their point of view), i.e. tell the customer that delta isn't going to do jack about it and that his options are to deal with it or get off the plane.

Tomphot

A couple months ago - my wife was on a flight and seated on aisle in Exit row. POS in middle seat asked FA for a seat belt extender. FA told POS that they can't provide that for someone in Exit row. POS then struggled to lift body parts to get seat belt clipped. This still left both people on either side without arm rests and pushed to the side. Mid flight, my wife talked to a deadheading pilot in the back by the lav to ask about how this should be acceptable on a flight and even more in an Exit row. He said he couldn't do anything about it and my wife said she didn't want to cause a scene. A few minutes late, a FA came up to her and loudly asked what the problem was. Wife went up to the galley to have the conversation in private. Bottom line was that my wife just needed to deal with it and that if she had complained before takeoff, she would have been taken off and put on another flight as the POS would have been accommodated.

Alphazone

hell na. at B763ER middle section you cannot extend your leg because of the wall.

pvn

if it happened like that and the FA initiated the conversation with your wife unprompted (assuming the pilot mentioned it to her) I would file a complaint about the FA

vincentharris

So I have a friend who is VERY tall who HAS to purchase F seats when he flies as that is the only way he can physically fit in the seat. He is thin and in shape, but obviously has VERY long legs. If F is not available he books into an exit row seat on purpose, any other Y seat you would physically have to physically jam him in the seat .

My point here? He knows what he can fit in, and plans accordingly. Why cant people who are too large to fit in a standard Y seat as considerate as he is?

Sometimes in F I sit next to a person of size and I think 'at least they are considerate to others" but it seems like they are in the vast minority of people.....

apodo77