Do you move when asked to move for load balancing on RJs
 

When they ask for volunteers to move so that they load balance do you usually move?

I have reserved 1A and after I am through getting myself situated they will ask pax to move for load balancing. Maybe I'm just a good guy and I'm the first to cave when all others don't want to move and hold up the departure.

It depends.

I've been on CRJs where they make EVERYONE from say row 4 forward move back. No choice on that one.

If there are plenty of pax and I'm in a seat I really wanted, and the remaining seats suck, then I let others volunteer.

If the rest of the plane is wide open, I may move to an empty row. On a RJ, I'm not about to volunteer to move from something near the front to a window seat in row 12 or thereabouts.

I usually reserve the seats I prefer, so I only move if they clear out my whole row. (i.e. don't give me the opportunity to volunteer). Otherwise, I usually stay until it gets unbearably awkward...and I seem to have a higher tolerance than most ;)

This is my biggest reason for reserving the exit row in advance. I may not be the first off, but I usually don't have to move and have the extra leg room BEFORE everyone gets moved around.

My favorite seat on these AC are Exit row, aisle.

See ya in the skies!!!

Sometimes nobody volunteers
 

I was on a flight from IAD to CAE recently and when the FA asked for volunteers , NO ONE would. She finally chose 2 people ( she had a rather flipant tone about it too, she obviously didn't appreciate having to make the chioce)
As for me , I was in the back , no worries.

Thankfully my CRJ flights are mercifully short (typically ORD-MSN), so I'll happily volunteer. What comes around goes around, and you never know when you might potentially be on the receiving end of a nice favor.

-Mike--

I hate to move. On the one occasion I did, I was at a window seat near the front of a 2.5hr flight. I noticed a free row towards the back and made my way there.

I get to the seat and I notice a purse on the window seat as a woman comes out the lav. There are no other free rows so I have to choose who to sit next to. The smart pax are now seated in the aisle seats, so I sit next to the woman from the lav.

"Typical...Why did you choose to sit next to me?" she questions. Possible answers are....

"You are more attractive than the fat guy over there"
"I thought this was an empty row, but turns out you were in the lav"
"I had to pick somewhere....they asked people to move and I volunteered."

I used the 2nd answer, but it made for a rather uncomfortable flight.

If I am in row 1 and there are plenty of people behind me, I wait and see if anyone makes a move. If no one does, then I'll move. When I am on the RJ I just want to get out of it as soon as it lands, row 1 is the best choice! :D

I am usually in 8B or 8C so I do not move.

I'm one of those folks who probably get counted twice on the weight and balance sheet, so I just sit in my aisle seat, back of the bus (usually about 11B), about the center of gravity -- because I know they will make me move if I sit up front.

The good news is that no one likes the back of the bus, so unless the flight is full, I usually have the row to myself.

I have been fortunate(?) to be on 100% loaded CRJ-200s, so never had to move from 1B.

On CRJ-700s I am in F, so they won't move me and on the ERJ-145, I am in 12A so I am already in the back. :) Same with EMB-120s where I can be found in 9C.

I wonder if anyone's used this line as an icebreaker... ;)

I have learned from experience to never book rows 1-4 simply so that I do not have to move. I am one of the suckers who always moves.

On ER4, I am in row 12 (exit) aisle.

On CRJ I am in 8 (exit) aisle. I think that seatguru.com is wrong and that there is about an inch more room?

albatross

Twice I told FA nicely that I can move if she needs me, otherwise I don't mind assisting door 1R in case of emergency. Both times I get to keep my 1C in the CRJ. It would be a drag if I really have to move after getting off row 15 of 747. With no one near me in the CRJ, sure felt like flying first class in the mini-cabin.... :p

Right next to me in 9B. :D

About the only time I get really aggressive about my ticketed seat is when the FA casually announces that "we are not very full today, so everybody just sit anywhere behind row 5" and some yahoo then tries to grab my exit row seat. I booked it for a reason, I am sitting in it.

JR