seat saving
Oct 11, 2018, 9:48 am
#61
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Blue Ridge, GA
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Fear of losing open seating leaves people squarely in one camp or the other.
Flying <2 hours routinely, seat saving is both less consequential and less common. You're conditioned to disregard seat savers if you board early as a freebie. Paying extra makes it conspicuous.
Flying <2 hours routinely, seat saving is both less consequential and less common. You're conditioned to disregard seat savers if you board early as a freebie. Paying extra makes it conspicuous.
Oct 11, 2018, 10:01 am
#62
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: SFO
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With that logic, cancer, aviation incidents, murders, etc are not an issue.
Relative to the population on this planet, each and every day where people are cancer free, it's not an issue.
Relative to the number of enplanements each and every day where people are quite happy arriving safely at their destination, aviation incidents are not an issue.
Relative to the population on this planet, each and every where people are not murdered, it's not an issue.
See what I did here? Your logic is flawed.
Oct 11, 2018, 10:20 am
#63
Join Date: May 2005
Posts: 4,871
With that logic, cancer, aviation incidents, murders, etc are not an issue.
Relative to the population on this planet, each and every day where people are cancer free, it's not an issue.
Relative to the number of enplanements each and every day where people are quite happy arriving safely at their destination, aviation incidents are not an issue.
Relative to the population on this planet, each and every where people are not murdered, it's not an issue.
See what I did here? Your logic is flawed.
Oct 11, 2018, 10:37 am
#64
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: SFO
Posts: 3,881
Seat saving is not an issue for an FA until seat saving results in them getting involved (eg. a confrontation which is rare).
Seat saving is possibly an issue for a passenger when their preferred seat is saved.
ETA: since you fly WN 2-4x weekly (solo as a A-lister?), try this experiment: take the aisle seat and save the adjacent two seats. Insist the seats are saved and closely observe their reaction. Then give up the seats to two pax who boards near the end. Pls report back
Last edited by Troopers; Oct 11, 2018 at 10:55 am
Oct 11, 2018, 1:36 pm
#65
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As a customer, I went up to a representative of a company and asked if there were any problems with the company...oddly, the answer was no!
Oct 11, 2018, 1:46 pm
#66
Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 5,813
Apparently 1 as long as it's you. However a company that has millions of enplanements is unlikely to change a policy over a few disgruntled customers when the vast majority don't really care.
Last edited by rsteinmetz70112; Oct 11, 2018 at 2:46 pm
Oct 11, 2018, 2:43 pm
#67
Join Date: May 2005
Location: PHX
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With that logic, cancer, aviation incidents, murders, etc are not an issue.
Relative to the population on this planet, each and every day where people are cancer free, it's not an issue.
Relative to the number of enplanements each and every day where people are quite happy arriving safely at their destination, aviation incidents are not an issue.
Relative to the population on this planet, each and every where people are not murdered, it's not an issue.
See what I did here? Your logic is flawed.
Oct 11, 2018, 3:35 pm
#68
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: SFO
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Your statement/logic was solely based on the frequency of an event occurring, ignoring the consequence of the event or not occuring. I did the same.
Oct 11, 2018, 4:48 pm
#69
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Logical arguments don't necessarily work that way. You are comparing completely different things and equating that to what I said. In terms of logical arguments that is a logical fallacy. In simple terms it's like saying that my logic was "a=b" and yours was "c=d" and then saying "therefore a and c are equal as well as b and d because the mathematical structure was the same". It's a false equivalence.
Oct 11, 2018, 4:50 pm
#70
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There is no way to really tell if people care or not, and responses will run across the spectrum. Some won't notice. Some won't care, some will but it will be forgotten in a few minutes, some will dwell on it, some will be royally screwed by it and get angry...and even some of those angry ones won't go as far as to make a statement or a post on the internet. The statement that the majority don't care however is an assumption, and should not be taken as a statement of fact.
Oct 11, 2018, 11:55 pm
#71
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There is no way to really tell if people care or not, and responses will run across the spectrum. Some won't notice. Some won't care, some will but it will be forgotten in a few minutes, some will dwell on it, some will be royally screwed by it and get angry...and even some of those angry ones won't go as far as to make a statement or a post on the internet. The statement that the majority don't care however is an assumption, and should not be taken as a statement of fact.
Oct 11, 2018, 11:59 pm
#72
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I had a 3 year hiatus before I started flying frequently again. It seems the seat saving situation on my short little flight has gotten much, much worse during that time.
Oct 12, 2018, 7:41 am
#74
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