daregale

You are hilarious with your sense of entitlement.

tjl

Don't many airlines block a lot of seats (including a few entire rows in the back) from pre-selection so that families can be seated together at check-in? Of course that means that checking whether seats together are available is not really transparent to the passenger looking at the airline's web site for a flight.

What I don't get is how airlines manage to break up groups even when they do have blocks of seats together specifically for this purpose.

Ancien Maestro

I used to think so.. and up until the last second.. always having my family split up by the time we check in and try to select seats at the very last second..

There has been extensive discussion on FT, regarding seat selection, and how an airline manually figures out the seating arrangement and the challenge thats face.. its not easy..

So recommended that seat selections are made ahead of time to ensure that the entire party sits together.. if there is an aircraft change, then ASAP on calling in or getting online to select seats together..

danielonn

I was on the Lufthansa Airbus 380 flight from FRA-SFO and I secured the bulkhead Y in the second Y cabin as the first Bulkhead was empty. This woman and her child decided to take my seat without asking.

When I came to my seat I politely told the woman that I had reserved this seat and I would like to take my seat. She was rude and said this is now my seat. I told her I'm sorry but you need to move as she did not ask me in the first place if she could have my seat.

I told the flight attendant and she told the lady to move and she finally did.

Point in case you need to ask nicely for the other passenger to move or ask to see their boarding pass. More than likely there was a confusion which can and does happen. Don't make a scene but be firm in your request.

exbayern

No, you don't need to ask to see their boarding pass. Nor do you need to ask nicely for the other person to move if they did indeed poach your seat. 'Asking' a seat poacher to move isn't required.

However, in this case, I suspect that you were moved by LH, not that you encountered a seat poacher. LH does move passengers from bulkhead seats to allow for use of bassinettes, just as they move passengers from wheelchair indicated seats, and from rows which become C after being initially marked as Y seats.

TMOliver

Well, speaking personally of course and with only a hypothetical perspective of he whom I've quoted, I'm firmly convinced that young arrogant a**holes with substantial over-estimation of their own self-importance should ride in either the lavs (forced to emerge and stand in the aisle, when the facilities are needed by other pax) or in unheated, unpressurized baggage holds. I mean no disrespect to the poster, but I would refuse him antibiotics were his eyes to become infected with a galloping infestation of a well known STD.

Now, I shy away from close proximity to rug rats and ankle biters, many of both reek and leak, but comprehend their parents' inalienable right to haul them around everywhere (subject to fare rules and contracts of carriage).

In summation, as they used to say to the unwelcome at the bar of the Drovers' Inn in old Dog Town, home of the laundresses, camp followers and fallen women serving the garrison at Fort Concho: "....you and the horse you rode into town, cowboy!"

obscure2k

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