3 thumbs up, 1 down at BWI gate A7
May 19, 2008, 6:55 pm
#46
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: ORD, MDW or MKE
Programs: American and Southwest. Hilton and Marriott hotels primarily.
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Someone show me the policy that says you can't save a seat....
So far I've read anecdotes, personal thoughts, personal opinions and absolutely no actual policy.
An 'A' boarding pass let's you board before 'B' and 'C' but it doesn't say anywhere that you have a right to your choice of seats. It is a 'boarding' pass and not a 'seat' pass.
So, I ask you... please show me the policy.
Thank you
So far I've read anecdotes, personal thoughts, personal opinions and absolutely no actual policy.
An 'A' boarding pass let's you board before 'B' and 'C' but it doesn't say anywhere that you have a right to your choice of seats. It is a 'boarding' pass and not a 'seat' pass.
So, I ask you... please show me the policy.
Thank you
May 20, 2008, 10:22 am
#47
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Portland, OR
Programs: DL MM Gold
Posts: 1,676
I saw that. Seat savers are going to rationalize: An open seat is an empty seat. I can "claim" a seat by putting clutter in it and then it's no longer "open" but "claimed" so nobody should sit there without my permission.
Wish SW would come right out and say explicitly: "No saving seats for later boarders."
Wish SW would come right out and say explicitly: "No saving seats for later boarders."
May 20, 2008, 5:23 pm
#49
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Portland, OR
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But you can never really know it's for a spouse. The seat-saving rationalizers may SAY it's for a spouse, and it's really for a co-worker. Or it may be that you're just above their body size or ugliness threshold, and they would unsave the seat in an instant if someone more to their liking came by.
Would it make a difference to you if you KNEW you were being lied to? Would it make a difference if you had just seen the seat-saver sleaze into line out of his own boarding order ahead of you?
And it may be a flat-out lie, and the spouse is invisible and never shows up.
That's why I admire the no-saving rule - if only they would publish it as such. It defuses all of those possible arguments of WHO the seat is being saved for.
Would it make a difference to you if you KNEW you were being lied to? Would it make a difference if you had just seen the seat-saver sleaze into line out of his own boarding order ahead of you?
And it may be a flat-out lie, and the spouse is invisible and never shows up.
That's why I admire the no-saving rule - if only they would publish it as such. It defuses all of those possible arguments of WHO the seat is being saved for.
May 20, 2008, 7:22 pm
#50
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 103
But you can never really know it's for a spouse. The seat-saving rationalizers may SAY it's for a spouse, and it's really for a co-worker. Or it may be that you're just above their body size or ugliness threshold, and they would unsave the seat in an instant if someone more to their liking came by.
Would it make a difference to you if you KNEW you were being lied to? Would it make a difference if you had just seen the seat-saver sleaze into line out of his own boarding order ahead of you?
And it may be a flat-out lie, and the spouse is invisible and never shows up.
That's why I admire the no-saving rule - if only they would publish it as such. It defuses all of those possible arguments of WHO the seat is being saved for.
Would it make a difference to you if you KNEW you were being lied to? Would it make a difference if you had just seen the seat-saver sleaze into line out of his own boarding order ahead of you?
And it may be a flat-out lie, and the spouse is invisible and never shows up.
That's why I admire the no-saving rule - if only they would publish it as such. It defuses all of those possible arguments of WHO the seat is being saved for.