Jude Starr
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- Jul 21, 2011
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I am a little confused as to how seat allocations are worked out.
On Friday I flew BNE-MEL. I did a web check-in and selected an aisle seat towards the back, as I usually do. Not long before boarding commenced, I was paged, and they told me that had to move me and gave me a new boarding pass for another aisle seat a couple of rows forward of where I had initially selected. No problem, I understand they may have needed 3 seats together and being a single traveller I know I am the easiest option to move. It didn't worry me particularly...until I boarded the plane to find my new seat was next to a lady with 2 small children (one in lap and one toddler in seat) :shock:.
Now for me, this is a fresh kind of hell...I can't stand kids, especially small ones. Obviously, the airline isn't to know that, but what surprised me was that there were a few rows ahead of us (at least 5) that only had one person sitting in the window seat...surely it might have made more sense to put me in an aisle seat in one of those rows? It would have made for a more comfortable flight for me, as well as for the mother and kids as they would have had a bit more space for the kids to wriggle around.
As it was I asked the crew member if I could move to one of the spare seats and that was fine (disaster averted), but I just wondered why it hadn't been done that way in the first place.
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On Friday I flew BNE-MEL. I did a web check-in and selected an aisle seat towards the back, as I usually do. Not long before boarding commenced, I was paged, and they told me that had to move me and gave me a new boarding pass for another aisle seat a couple of rows forward of where I had initially selected. No problem, I understand they may have needed 3 seats together and being a single traveller I know I am the easiest option to move. It didn't worry me particularly...until I boarded the plane to find my new seat was next to a lady with 2 small children (one in lap and one toddler in seat) :shock:.
Now for me, this is a fresh kind of hell...I can't stand kids, especially small ones. Obviously, the airline isn't to know that, but what surprised me was that there were a few rows ahead of us (at least 5) that only had one person sitting in the window seat...surely it might have made more sense to put me in an aisle seat in one of those rows? It would have made for a more comfortable flight for me, as well as for the mother and kids as they would have had a bit more space for the kids to wriggle around.
As it was I asked the crew member if I could move to one of the spare seats and that was fine (disaster averted), but I just wondered why it hadn't been done that way in the first place.
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