More seat swapping/poaching fun!
Oct 23, 2018, 3:52 pm
#271
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You people are weird.
Relax and have a PDB on me.
Relax and have a PDB on me.
Oct 23, 2018, 5:40 pm
#272
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Fact 1: Anyone booking a last minute coach flight will most likely end up in a middle seat.
Fact 2: If a couple books available aisle and a window seats (for whatever reason) and they later decide to trade with a passenger who booked later when only middle seats were available, they are giving them a better seat that was not available to them at booking.
How is this a scam?
Isn't it doing the other passenger a favor?
Fact 2: If a couple books available aisle and a window seats (for whatever reason) and they later decide to trade with a passenger who booked later when only middle seats were available, they are giving them a better seat that was not available to them at booking.
How is this a scam?
Isn't it doing the other passenger a favor?We have on occasion (including an upcoming flight) booked the 2 aisles so we can each sit next to each other irrespective of whether someone is in the middle even though it doesn't give me my preferred window.
We're certainly open to going back to booking aisle and window and not even offering the individual in the middle the option to switch with one of us if that is the proper thing to do.
Oct 23, 2018, 6:09 pm
#273
Join Date: Oct 2018
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~4400 posts over the span of 3.5 years. And it has nothing to do with FT specifically. It’s basic understanding of how to use many an internet forum. Despite also being busy with work and flying and traveling, I and many other users on here have learned how tonquite multiple people in the same posts. So you don’t get to blame “being busy traveling” cop-out for your shortcomings. Quoting multiple people in the same post isn’t rocket science yet you struggle with it apparently.
But I will touch on this - since you have difficulty with math (and as one’s FT profile will tell you), ~4500 posts over about ~3.5 years is ~3.5 posts per day. Your profile shows you joined this month (17 October) and have 17 posts already, and shows you’re averaging 2.8 posts per day and you admit it would be higher but youre limited by the limitations of new members. Even with the limitations, our averages are within about 1/2 a post a day day of each other. Hardly a statistical significance in difference there. I’ve just been active a lot longer than you have. I’m hardly posting more per day than you, despite your attempt to show to the contrary.
Good for you and your beliefs. You can believe in Santa Claus or a flat earth too. That doesn’t mean it’s real or accurate and is just you trying to cover up your own lack of reading comprehension. I never said I engage in the “scam” as you call it (not that I even view it as a scam but that’s irrelevant). If I book myself in a window and my wife in an aisle that’s where we sit. I’m not moving to the middle because I get up frequently and she likes being in the window so she doesn’t have to be bothered if people get up. We book this knowing the middle will likely be occupied or we book options with sets of 2 seats that allow for an aisle/window combo with no middle or, in many cases, we book FC anyway to avoid the issue altogether depending on the fare difference between F and Y.
1) You don’t understand the intent behind FF programs then and you obviously don’t understand that FF programs are marketing programs under the guise of rewards programs. And you clearly don’t understand how supply and demand plays into this, among other factors.
2) DMs who book early have the same benefits.
I feel sorry for you considering that you get off on trashing people you don’t know because they do not think the way you do
I gave you a taste of your nasty medicine and judged by your reaction you did not like being put in your place
I refuse to sink to your level again so enjoy the free economy comfort v class upgrades for as long as you can with your platinum status
I gave you a taste of your nasty medicine and judged by your reaction you did not like being put in your place
I refuse to sink to your level again so enjoy the free economy comfort v class upgrades for as long as you can with your platinum status
Oct 23, 2018, 6:41 pm
#275
Join Date: Mar 2015
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Thanks! Sorry to everyone for causing this trouble, as I was the one who mentioned this alleged "scam". My wife likes aisle and I like window, so we usually book those 2 seats and hope no one sits in the middle. We have on occasion decided to keep our assigned seats and not offer the person in the middle the option to switch, but usually prefer to sit next to each other over our preferred seat and the individual in the middle is thrilled!
Oct 23, 2018, 7:39 pm
#276
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My wife and I have the exact same practice. It has never failed - either the middle seat is not booked and we get to keep the three, or the person in the middle is delighted to move to the aisle. Either way, one or more people are happy, and no-one is upset. The nonsense on this thread is at epic levels.
Oct 23, 2018, 8:25 pm
#277
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Oct 23, 2018, 8:35 pm
#278
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Oct 23, 2018, 9:22 pm
#279
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My wife and I have the exact same practice. It has never failed - either the middle seat is not booked and we get to keep the three, or the person in the middle is delighted to move to the aisle. Either way, one or more people are happy, and no-one is upset. The nonsense on this thread is at epic levels.
I have a friend (extremely well-traveled worldwide) who actually likes the middle seat. I'd love to see the reaction on your faces with her, she would probably politely refuse your offer.
Oct 23, 2018, 9:28 pm
#280
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Oct 23, 2018, 9:39 pm
#281
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Thanks! Sorry to everyone for causing this trouble, as I was the one who mentioned this alleged "scam". My wife likes aisle and I like window, so we usually book those 2 seats and hope no one sits in the middle. We have on occasion decided to keep our assigned seats and not offer the person in the middle the option to switch, but usually prefer to sit next to each other over our preferred seat and the individual in the middle is thrilled!
We have on occasion (including an upcoming flight) booked the 2 aisles so we can each sit next to each other irrespective of whether someone is in the middle even though it doesn't give me my preferred window.
We're certainly open to going back to booking aisle and window and not even offering the individual in the middle the option to switch with one of us if that is the proper thing to do.
We have on occasion (including an upcoming flight) booked the 2 aisles so we can each sit next to each other irrespective of whether someone is in the middle even though it doesn't give me my preferred window.
We're certainly open to going back to booking aisle and window and not even offering the individual in the middle the option to switch with one of us if that is the proper thing to do.
Oct 24, 2018, 7:46 am
#282
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Oct 24, 2018, 7:54 am
#283
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Oct 24, 2018, 8:06 am
#284
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If you're on a widebody, at least, the middle seats in the middle section guarantee nobody will need to climb over you to get out.