Seat switch request: What would you have done?
Mar 5, 2011, 5:06 pm
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Mar 6, 2011, 12:24 am
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Mar 6, 2011, 1:24 am
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I can`t say for sure what I would have done in this situation. I do not like being trapped at a window seat (especially in economy) and tend to specifically select aisle seats for this reason, even if C or F.
However it is possible that I would sympathize with the family and make the switch, if I felt that the request was legitimate.
In most cases I will only switch if I will end up with a seat that I find to be equal to or better than my assigned seat. I have no problem denying a request to move if I do not like the seat in question.
However it is possible that I would sympathize with the family and make the switch, if I felt that the request was legitimate.
In most cases I will only switch if I will end up with a seat that I find to be equal to or better than my assigned seat. I have no problem denying a request to move if I do not like the seat in question.
Mar 6, 2011, 5:48 am
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Airlines have policies (and associated fees) for unaccompanied minors, so it is not a problem for them to have children pax with no guardians on-board. So having parents a few rows away is not a problem for the airlines per se.
Mar 6, 2011, 7:34 am
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In this situation..... if it had been been me, particularly with the recent paedophilia court case about a single male passenger seated next to a young girl... I would have swapped with the mother, especially as it wasn't a particularly long flight.
As your friend chose to keep his aisle seat - he has to put up with the middle and window seat passengers wanting to get in and out of their seats.
Mar 6, 2011, 9:29 am
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I would told an FA that the mother could have my seat if i could go into business class
It was the airline's responsbility to seat families together. It's not other passengers responsibility. Families dont pay more than the rest of us so don't get more rights
I hate being guilted into things
It was the airline's responsbility to seat families together. It's not other passengers responsibility. Families dont pay more than the rest of us so don't get more rights
I hate being guilted into things
But seriously, IMPO I would switch so long as its not to an inferior class of seats or to a part of an airplane where there is a couple of empty seats or a whole row empty seats if they are no empty seats in class equivalent.
Mar 7, 2011, 9:07 am
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Sometimes the airline can't win. Sometimes the passenger can't win. Sometimes this takes the form of not getting an upgrade because the last seats together were the economy plus seats and handed out to a family.
Last edited by AllanJ; Mar 7, 2011 at 9:13 am