IAH-OIL-TRASH

Dogs don't wipe or shake (at least mine don't). I don't think the stains you've noticed can compete.

JVPhoto

If a dog wants a chair their owner can sit on the floor to even things out.

bocastephen

...and this is why I carry a couple packs of Lysol wipes in my carry-on bag, most dollar stores have them in stock for $1 a pack, and I highly advise people to travel with them, and wipe, wipe, then wipe again, everything they will touch - leather seats or head rests, arm rests, IFE controls, air vents, window shade handles, table trays, lie flat seat shell interiors, etc etc - and I'm often surprised how many people start pulling out their own supply and start wiping after they notice me cleaning my seating area as if they needed a reminder or approval cue to begin.

A dog sitting in a lounge chair, or even on board in the cabin is the least of your worries, and is probably cleaner than most of the other human customers. Today's aircraft are literally flying toilets and it doesn't require a DYKWIA fit kicking up the 'you know what' to spread any of it around. The previous occupant of your seat could carry anything from the common cold, to norovirus to hepatitis...none of which are likely spread by a friendly doggie.

ecosse3

FRA to EWR a couple of days ago. Standing in the group 1 boarding area (the longest line), a man in a business suit says to another that "clearly, based on the demographics of this line, MOST of THESE PEOPLE are in the wrong line." Hmmmm....okay.

CHOPCHOP767

I'm kind of surprised this transpired in CDG; usually the French are much better about not putting up with this sort of nonsense, e.g. DYWKIA behavior. Aside from the croissants, it's one of the many reasons I love visiting there

manstein58

So true. I use Prep H wipes and wish i had something MUCH stronger

JVPhoto

I get things like that at FRA and ZRH even being nearly pushed aside by Herr Humpty Dumpty and his rollerboard. I wear casual, but designer, clothes.

physioprof

Waiting to board at PBI yesterday, and the gate area is very crowded. They board a few wheelchairs, and then as soon as the GA starts the announcment "families with children, uniformed military, ...", this dude barges to the scanner, scans his BP, while loudly announcing, "I'm a 1K! I get to board first!"

drew in the air

LOL you would a think a 1K would have been properly conditioned already to know we are below GS and preboarding

Baze

I would have jus started laughing loudly so the DYKWIA could hear and be looking at them. Then say loud enough, "don't you know 1K doesn't mean much anymore? You need to be Global Services."

CHOPCHOP767

PBI, like FLL, rarely disappoint when it comes to these types of encounters.

jmcintosh

Boarded CVG-DEN tonight ... plane must have been down-gauged from a 175-170 as I got a call earlier in the day asking if I was able to rebook (but couldn't). GA calls for a passenger who walks out from the G1/2 boarding line and spends a while at the desk. Boarding occurs. I'm in first as is a uniformed captain. Passenger who was called up by the GA boards and barks loudly "OH, you mean to tell me they downgraded me and gave a seat to an employee?!" The captain says, "I'm actually on a paid ticket."

Upgrade list shows 1 passenger in 1D upgraded ... captain is in 2D.

Passenger huffs back to Y.

Yikes. Want to ensure you sit in the J cabin? Buy an F, A, J, C, D, Z, or P fare (did I miss any in the alphabet soup?).

lincolnjkc

To be fair, and not that the other passenger's behavior was appropriate in any case... the typical assumption for someone flying in uniform is that they're either nonrev commuting or deadheading; the crewmembers I know will go out of their way to avoid being in uniform [including changing in a crew lounge or restroom] when flying on their own revenue ticket to avoid that possible confrontation.

Did you happen to see the UG list before the downgauge? It's entirely possible he lost the "revenue downgrade lottery" and also had a paid ticket -- though the fact that one UG showed cleared makes that unlikely [though it's also possible that that wasn't a true UG, e.g. some MP F award tickets will show up on the UG list]

Yep. But in a downguage situation that's not a guarantee. My first trip of the year had an enroute downguage where we stopped in ATL and swapped our E175 for an E170 before continuing to the intended destination... The GA's handling of that was odd in that rather than reseating the plane or even the F cabin, she just called 6 passengers (presumably paid F in fare bucket order based on when I was called) told people to "take any seat you want", then she called the rest of the pax who had been seated in first and hadn't defected to DL-operated flights or rental cars, gave them a voucher and told them to pick any seat in Y they wanted, and finally (though I was on board by then, from what I heard ) seemed to call the rest of the plane with a "find an open seat close to your original seat if it's taken"

laxmillenial

That is SUCH an odd way of handling a downgrade. Doesn't it just create more problems than it solves?

lincolnjkc

Oh yeah... The FA and captain were baffled, especially since they were onboard waiting for us to board for about 45 minutes before we actually boarded -- they kept coming up the jetway to see what the holdup was. Quote from exasperated FA "What the hell was she doing all this time if she wasn't fixing seat assignments? We could have been [to our destination] by now if this is how we're going to handle seating."