Premium Cabin Etiquette --economy vistors in the premium cabin
Jan 15, 2018, 4:31 pm
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Hope the OP sends a report to UA, and hopefully other F pax (other than the grandparents) will do the same.
Jan 15, 2018, 6:05 pm
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There is an announcement about staying in your ticketed cabin, and a curtain to enforce it. What more is needed, other than to expect FAs to enforce that and all other rules? If you can’t be separated from your (family member/friend), book the same cabin and decline partial upgrades.
Hope the OP sends a report to UA, and hopefully other F pax (other than the grandparents) will do the same.
Jan 15, 2018, 6:32 pm
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I want to know how you're still married, I did this once on a domestic flight DEN-LAX and realised that it was a mistake that I would certainly not be repeating !
Jan 15, 2018, 7:08 pm
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Married 23 years. This trip to PVG, we thought my business schedule would be light but meetings started piling up so my wife thought it would be important that I sleep on the flight. Funny thing is that on the return she did not want to wait for the upgrade lottery and took for herself a TOD from Economy + to Business and found herself upgraded to First. I was not a winner of the GPU upgrade lottery. Coming back home, I had again a heavy schedule of meetings so my wife did offer me her First Class seat. But, as you said, it would have been a mistake for me to accept it.
Jan 15, 2018, 7:40 pm
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Asking to send a PDB is a bit over the top. However, back when I was a 1K, I was flying with my boss, who had no status on UA. I got upgraded, she was sitting in the first row of coach. Before meal service began I went forward to ask the purser if I could give my dinner wine to my boss. She laughed and said don't worry, I'll take care of her.
Jan 15, 2018, 8:03 pm
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This isn't just an annoyance, it is a safety issue. IMHO the FA should have made the "stay in your seat with seat belt fastened" announcement, and then followed up if they started wandering around again. Surely they would have had time for an announcement or two since the aisles were being used as a super market.
Jan 15, 2018, 11:36 pm
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Maybe they should actually have stayed at home if they have so little consideration towards other passengers though.
Jan 16, 2018, 12:05 am
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I'm obviously not a big United FA supporter as many know.
However, I would point out that the FAs get it from both sides on this. I've seen a number of complaints here about how someone who just wanted to go forward once (or twice, or three times), to visit their spouse and the mean FA sent them back. I think there's a gray area, and I would not expect FAs to strike the perfect balance every time.
However, I would point out that the FAs get it from both sides on this. I've seen a number of complaints here about how someone who just wanted to go forward once (or twice, or three times), to visit their spouse and the mean FA sent them back. I think there's a gray area, and I would not expect FAs to strike the perfect balance every time.
There have been several occasions when I have been traveling in a cabin in front of a cabin occupied by other members of my travel party.
If I want to visit them in flight, I go back to their cabin.
More often, we both just get the WiFi and text.
FA's should not allow Y cabin passengers in F under any circumstances. (Ok, maybe the Y cabin lavatories are out or something.)
I don't mind someone in F requesting a beverage for someone in Y. Affects no one but the involved parties. FA can accommodate or not as they feel warrants the situation.
Jan 16, 2018, 12:18 am
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Jan 16, 2018, 3:32 am
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Would have certainly annoyed me. If the family want to see each other constantly during a flight they should all sit in the same part of the plane. Can afford premium cabin for everyone? Great, pay. Can't afford it for everyone? Sit in economy. The alternative is not seeing each other for the majority of the flight; hardly the end of the world, anyway.
Jan 16, 2018, 7:18 am
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Interesting experience last evening on a flight from DEN to PDX. Grandparents sitting in 1A and 1C. Children and grandchildren sitting in E-. What started out as cute, parents bringing the kids to visit grandparents during flight became a major annoyance. Children crawling down the aisle, screaming when separated from grandparents, parents blocking the aisle to restroom and blocking FA from serving. Because you could not avoid noticing I made the flight interesting by counting how many times the parents made a trip from their seats to the front of the plane, 23, not a joke, 23. It was a 2 hour flight. The FA should have discussed this with the parents as it made the flight a bad experience for all. Didn't feel it was appropriate to confront the parents as the level of sensitivity is beyond control.
Jan 16, 2018, 7:57 am
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Jan 16, 2018, 8:51 am
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This isn't just an annoyance, it is a safety issue. IMHO the FA should have made the "stay in your seat with seat belt fastened" announcement, and then followed up if they started wandering around again. Surely they would have had time for an announcement or two since the aisles were being used as a super market.