Seat poacher

[Forg]

My favourite was when there was a real stuff up on J seat allocations which the crew resolved by plonking me in 1A from MEL to LHR. That was a quite a while back and I doubt it would happen today.

Not an allocation stuff-up, but a borked Y seat which wouldn’t stop reclining … can’t recall which US carrier it was, but this happened to Dad’s seat so they bumped Mum & Dad up to a pair of J seats.
Again, doubt it would happen today.
They were especially happy as some foozball team had done some thing or was about to do some thing, and both players & fans were being Very Noisy in Y … actually, seppo foozball players prolly wouldn’t travel Y these days either.

 

[astrosly]

Had an attempted poaching on my flight from Noumea to Sydney yesterday. I am in 1A and 1C is free, I board fairly early and put my bag on the seat of 1C to remove my book before putting the bag in the overhead. Whilst I was doing this a fellow indicated he was in 1A and asked me to move for him. I told him that was my seat - he looked at his boarding pass in his hand which clearly said 1D. He the went and sat there, but kept glancing at me for the next 20 mins or so.

I think he saw me start to get unpacked on the aisle seat and thought it was a chance to nab a window seat. He was watching the entertainment unit in 1D, if he had only known that 1A's entertainment unit was borked! I got a text indicating that which is why they left 1C free in case I wanted to sit there. On my outbound last week 1A was not working (don't know if same aircraft) and QF moved me to 1C without asking but as soon as I saw it at the gate I got them to move me back to 1A.

 

[DejaBrew]

Had an attempted poaching on my flight from Noumea to Sydney yesterday. I am in 1A and 1C is free, I board fairly early and put my bag on the seat of 1C to remove my book before putting the bag in the overhead. Whilst I was doing this a fellow indicated he was in 1A and asked me to move for him. I told him that was my seat - he looked at his boarding pass in his hand which clearly said 1D. He the went and sat there, but kept glancing at me for the next 20 mins or so.

Saw your post in another thread… was your seat poacher named “Waleed”?

 

[Brissy1]

Had an attempted poaching on my flight from Noumea to Sydney yesterday. I am in 1A and 1C is free, I board fairly early and put my bag on the seat of 1C to remove my book before putting the bag in the overhead. Whilst I was doing this a fellow indicated he was in 1A and asked me to move for him. I told him that was my seat - he looked at his boarding pass in his hand which clearly said 1D. He the went and sat there, but kept glancing at me for the next 20 mins or so.

I think he saw me start to get unpacked on the aisle seat and thought it was a chance to nab a window seat. He was watching the entertainment unit in 1D, if he had only known that 1A's entertainment unit was borked! I got a text indicating that which is why they left 1C free in case I wanted to sit there. On my outbound last week 1A was not working (don't know if same aircraft) and QF moved me to 1C without asking but as soon as I saw it at the gate I got them to move me back to 1A.

OT but have you tried Aircalin J? Wonderful.
vrs a QF B737 configured (edit: catering)for domestic!