Seat saving brouhaha
Sep 29, 2011, 6:54 am
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Flying MHT-MDW-TUS-MDW-MHT in a few weeks w/ wife and daughter. I'm AL but wife is on CP and daughter on an old std award so no opp for EBCI.
So does everyone agree I should save the exit row?
Honestly, I have my doubts even if I'm vigilant w/ T-24 for them that we'll even be able to sit together.
Guess that's just one more reason why I haven't flown a WN flight since April and RR2.0. I think the new 2.0 did me a favor and this will be an excellent reminder why I'm preferring and really enjoying my UACO Gold/1p status and soon to be Platinum/1k (even if it sticks me with a fair # of WN replacement flights on US as mere *G)
So does everyone agree I should save the exit row?
Honestly, I have my doubts even if I'm vigilant w/ T-24 for them that we'll even be able to sit together.
Guess that's just one more reason why I haven't flown a WN flight since April and RR2.0. I think the new 2.0 did me a favor and this will be an excellent reminder why I'm preferring and really enjoying my UACO Gold/1p status and soon to be Platinum/1k (even if it sticks me with a fair # of WN replacement flights on US as mere *G)
I am pretty sure you can do it for a companion pass also. I would do EBCI for one of the people in your party, not take an exit row or a seat towards the front or other highly desirable row. If you board with a-list you should be able to find 3 seats together. take the aisle and then have the person on ebci take the window. Even if the third person is in late C most people aren'tgoing to complain if you have a center seat saved in a certain row and will just move on to another row.
Sep 29, 2011, 6:56 am
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I board early, sit close to the front, no exit or bulkhead, and save the middle seat by placing a single item of importance in it. I have taken the last 20-25 flights this way, almost half sold out and completely full. The seat is reserved to no later boarding passenger. Oh, people ask and I have to nicely tell them to move along that the seat is reserved. One man grumbled that it is WN and one can not reserve seats.
Only has happened twice, but I liked it both times. Meant no one in the middle seat. Both times there were people boarding in C that tried taking the seat since both times it was near the front, when it was the first available middle seat available but when the person in the window seat pointed out it was reserved, the people never gave them a hassle and just kept moving back.
Sep 29, 2011, 7:14 am
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Is seat saving enforceable?
I understood WN had no policy to prevent one from saving a seat for a family member. "This seat is taken" it is difficult to dispute during the boarding process.
And nothing beats actually sitting next to the person you just had the dispute with for the next hour or 2 or 3.
I understood WN had no policy to prevent one from saving a seat for a family member. "This seat is taken" it is difficult to dispute during the boarding process.
And nothing beats actually sitting next to the person you just had the dispute with for the next hour or 2 or 3.
Sep 29, 2011, 9:52 am
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Is seat saving enforceable?
I understood WN had no policy to prevent one from saving a seat for a family member. "This seat is taken" it is difficult to dispute during the boarding process.
And nothing beats actually sitting next to the person you just had the dispute with for the next hour or 2 or 3.
I understood WN had no policy to prevent one from saving a seat for a family member. "This seat is taken" it is difficult to dispute during the boarding process.
And nothing beats actually sitting next to the person you just had the dispute with for the next hour or 2 or 3.
Most of us will say, and there are some that will disagree, that saving a single middle seat, in a non-exit, non bulkhead row will not be objectionable.
The main problems occur when multiple seats are saved or when seats are saved in the very few seats that can be considered "premium" seats (a term defined loosely) on WN. In general, the "premium" seats are the 11A-11C exit row with extra legroom, 12F the infinite legroom seat, the LUV-bird seats 11D-E (which have no special room advantage) and the bulkhead seats.
Sep 29, 2011, 11:10 am
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Exactly, and those people that want to save seats, should fly one of those ailrines that reserve seats so they can sit together.
I honestly don't understand why people make a huge deal if they can't sit together for a few hours. I understand a parent needing to sit with a small child.
I honestly don't understand why people make a huge deal if they can't sit together for a few hours. I understand a parent needing to sit with a small child.
Sep 29, 2011, 12:09 pm
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Even if everyone has EBCI, there is no guarantee they will sit together. Even if there are a lot of a-listers and throughs on the plane, chances are they will find a row of 3 seats together with EBCI, but still n o guarantee like with assigned seats.
Sep 29, 2011, 6:45 pm
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YEs, that would make the most sense is to pay for EBCI. I was referring to the people that were too cheap to pay for EBCI for everyone, and having the one paid EBCI passenger hold the seats for the others.
Even if everyone has EBCI, there is no guarantee they will sit together. Even if there are a lot of a-listers and throughs on the plane, chances are they will find a row of 3 seats together with EBCI, but still n o guarantee like with assigned seats.
Even if everyone has EBCI, there is no guarantee they will sit together. Even if there are a lot of a-listers and throughs on the plane, chances are they will find a row of 3 seats together with EBCI, but still n o guarantee like with assigned seats.
Sep 29, 2011, 6:51 pm
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The idea of paying for earlier boarding is silly. If I am split up, I carry the other person's bag, sit in the middle, stick the bag next to me. If anyone asks, I say he/she is in the john. Who's to say. Just another reason the whole Southwest experience has worn thin. T'was a time the GA would allow split parties to board together. Sigh.
Sep 29, 2011, 6:58 pm
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Or another thing that will work if you dn't have consecutive numbers. If the personwith the lowest number boards with the person with the higher number instead, the GA can't say a thing and you will be boarding together.
Sep 30, 2011, 12:55 pm
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And you can. Both can buy EBCI at the same time and will probably have consecutive numbers.
Or another thing that will work if you dn't have consecutive numbers. If the personwith the lowest number boards with the person with the higher number instead, the GA can't say a thing and you will be boarding together.
Or another thing that will work if you dn't have consecutive numbers. If the personwith the lowest number boards with the person with the higher number instead, the GA can't say a thing and you will be boarding together.
Sep 30, 2011, 1:33 pm
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The idea of paying for earlier boarding is silly. If I am split up, I carry the other person's bag, sit in the middle, stick the bag next to me. If anyone asks, I say he/she is in the john. Who's to say. Just another reason the whole Southwest experience has worn thin. T'was a time the GA would allow split parties to board together. Sigh.
Sep 30, 2011, 3:29 pm
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I know you can do EBCI for that standard award, I always did it since I used the tickets for long flights and didn't want to have to deal with having to be at my phone or a computer at exactly t-24.
I am pretty sure you can do it for a companion pass also. I would do EBCI for one of the people in your party, not take an exit row or a seat towards the front or other highly desirable row. If you board with a-list you should be able to find 3 seats together. take the aisle and then have the person on ebci take the window. Even if the third person is in late C most people aren'tgoing to complain if you have a center seat saved in a certain row and will just move on to another row.
I am pretty sure you can do it for a companion pass also. I would do EBCI for one of the people in your party, not take an exit row or a seat towards the front or other highly desirable row. If you board with a-list you should be able to find 3 seats together. take the aisle and then have the person on ebci take the window. Even if the third person is in late C most people aren'tgoing to complain if you have a center seat saved in a certain row and will just move on to another row.
Thanks for heads up... going to find this EBCI for std award as we speak. ^
Although... I could save the $ and get a whole new seat saving brouhaha thread started in a few weeks on FT and go and unload some belongings across the exit row!
Maybe I'll wear saggy pants too and try to move the FA's stuff from the first overhead compartment for my carry-on before I make my way to the ER!!!
Sep 30, 2011, 4:09 pm
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Guess I need to look harder... I haven't tried it in forever but last time I tried to find a way to EBCI a std award couldn't find anything on the WN site. I've definitely never tried it for the CP and just assumed you couldn't.
Thanks for heads up... going to find this EBCI for std award as we speak. ^
Although... I could save the $ and get a whole new seat saving brouhaha thread started in a few weeks on FT and go and unload some belongings across the exit row! Maybe I'll wear saggy pants too and try to move the FA's stuff from the first overhead compartment for my carry-on before I make my way to the ER!!!
Thanks for heads up... going to find this EBCI for std award as we speak. ^
Although... I could save the $ and get a whole new seat saving brouhaha thread started in a few weeks on FT and go and unload some belongings across the exit row!
Maybe I'll wear saggy pants too and try to move the FA's stuff from the first overhead compartment for my carry-on before I make my way to the ER!!!