USCGamecock

challenged(I didn't want to say stupid) and can't match up the row # and seat they are suppose to be in to their boarding pass? I just came back from Europe (it involves several legs) and someone was in my seat everytime. Oh sorry, I thought this was 32D (on row 15). The best one - seat numbers are for accounting only. The f/a told me to sit anywhere. Does this happen to anyone else on a regular basis?

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UALOneKPlus

This is TravelBuzz material, but

A funny thing happened to me. I was getting off a flight, and some lady asked for help on how to release her seat belt buckle. Wow, I've never had that happen before!

RobotDoctor

Good grief. Some people.

annerj

ALL the time. I fly 4 flights/week and I see people in the wrong seats AT LEAST once a week. My personal fav when they are in my seat and tell me that the flight is empty and there should be plenty of seats around (I tell them that they are right and should find one)

On the CRJs in SLC I see peeple who are on the wrong plane. Even to the point that the flight attendant repeats SEVERAL times that this plane is going to COS and her count is over by one, then as she is going threw the seat assignments some brainiak relizes that they are not going to COS.

annerj

skofarrell

Buzz worthy IMHO. Follow it there!

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Fraser

Didn't she see the safety briefing

Or by the sounds of it perhaps she was too stupid to understand it!

WHBM

Well in Europe it has been the practice for a while that you must always show your Boarding Pass stub to the crew member standing at the aircraft door. Given the sheer number of times that you have to show your BP at a US airport they seem to have missed the most significant step of all - entering the plane.

edi-traveller

You always see some poor tossers who get on the plane and immediately check the front row seat number to see if it is theirs - but of course they have 58B and then look really confused that the first row isn't their seat.

Gaucho100K

This is easy to solve. Fly F all the time and you will have a lot less of these hassles...

modernbeat

Gotta admit. I'm guilty.

One time only though. Embarassed myself throughly!

Had a 4 leg flight. 3 CRJs and ERJs and then some flavor of 737. I switched planes between every leg. That ment switching seats too. By the time I was boarding the 737, I was zonked, tired, and not thinking a clearly as I should have been. Seat assignment was something like 9C. I sat in the RIGHT hand isle seat untill another haggard traveler tapped me on the shoulder and politely asked me to confirm that I was supposed to be seated in 9D!

I jumped across the isle, red with embarassment. Ouch!

Analise

I'm not too pleased with how the FA responded. Just sit anywhere? Sounds like Southwest Airlines.

kanebear

I think he's saying the other pax told him this...

Blumie

A number of years ago, I was on a prop from DFW-Tyler, Texas. After we already had begun our taxi to the runway and the FA began her safety announcement, beginning with, "Welcome once again to AE flight XXXX with service to Tyler," a man sitting near me said, "Tyler, I thought we were going to Tulsa!" Boy was I pissed when we actually taxied back to the gate to kick his sorry @ss off the plane!

On the subject of seat assignments, I often board the plane early and sit in F, so I have a great view of the remarkable number of passengers on each flight who board the plane and then stand in the aisle staring at their boarding pass not able to figure out the "puzzle" of how a seat assignment corresponds to a particular seat.

DaxOmni

Wow, I guess most of us were perfect from day one eh? Never made a single mistake on a plane in your life? I'd bet good odds most of us have made at least one or two seat mistakes over our lifetimes. Yet some of us seem incapable of grasping the simple concept of (gasp!) infrequent fliers. Not everyone has been flying weekly on every type of plane known to man since they were six. Some people are just now taking their very first flight. Is there some unwritten rule that prevents the regulars from cutting the rest any slack?

I'm not saying that fellow pax never make mistakes that annoy me, but in the grand scheme of things this sure seems like a pretty minor event IMO. I try to save my wrath for families with unruly kids, people who leave the lav a mess, and folks with oversized egos.

Aviatrix

Well said, DaxOmni!

I saw something quite funny on my flight from AMS to YUL last week, though. After the doors were shut two of the FAs stood together at the front of the C cabin, looking very puzzled, counting names on their list, counting heads in the cabin, and re-counting, and re-counting again. Were we missing a passenger? No, it turned out to the be the other way round - we had an "interloper" from the back of the cabin!

What amazed me was the utmost courtesy with which the FAs treated him - they were smiling, they were apologising (!), they even helped him with his bags as they escorted him to his allocated seat.


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