Someone's in my seat

[barbra]

Goo title and good subject. I like to join in.

First of all tell me. Does one need to take a copy of a recipt for all the airlines i be on ? it seems far too much. They say if you dont bring the ceipt you get from your email they cant look it up by just looking at your boarding pass ticket because you msut somehow show proof you own that seat if you have paid for or not.

I am going to europe theres too many seats and planes and i dont no if i can handle or be complete confusing with so many receipts to take with me in case someone steals my seat. Shouldnt it be just easier for the airport staff to see you paid a seat by showing your travel booking rahter then receipts all over the place ?


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My last experinece was a sweedish young tall men who was seating on my window seat. I almost got furious the moment i saw my seat taken. This was on domestic. I told him excuse me love. This is my seat i show my ticket. He also shows me he owns the seat . He ends up saying this is my seat i said NO this is mine i choosed this in advane... so we end up debating peopled looked at us. I just hadf to stop and get him out of the window seat as it was mine.. So it seems that this young lad wanted a window and the airport staff took me off that seat and have me next to him away from the window. OR that my request that i wanted a window seat made somehow this young tall guy seat away from the window in order for me to get the window. I dont no each one of us own that seat or that i came first requesting i want a window seat and maybe the staff at the check in counter looked up anyone with a non paid seat to step out of that window and i can have it and put him one step away. Without him or her knowing or maybe it is the other way around by i wanting to be sure i have my window seat and maybe this young tall lad at check in requested window and the staff may possible pushed me away from that window request in order for this young lad to take over that seat. I was almost furious about this lad. I got the seat i didn't wanted to get mad at him but anyhow thats what you get sometimes with seats on a aircraft.

Does this also effects even if you paid a seat ? Also like ive said... Does one needs to take a few dozen seat receipts just in case you dont get that seat you choosed online ? I have multiple flghts on finnair and a few flights. i lost count how many times i be on a seat but ive choosed and picked a for each fliught they where free because it seems that im on glass H whatever that suppose to mean on economy... I just afraid someone may steal our seat by all means. So the annoying thing is.. Does one needs to bring every each passanger thier own receipts ? Why dont they just look it up on the booking reference for each passanger rarther then show receipts? i have many seats i be on each flights.. so im confused which receipt i would have to show because i believe i have a few 4 or so receipts for the seat i choosed online per person. for each flights.. But do i need to show this or only show this if the seat is diferent number then the one ive choosen online ? If its wrong then what? they might say sorry but you choosed free select seats without paid. But what does that has anything to do? I paid a lot of money for finnair flights aniways on economy its giving me aportunity to select freely a seat without paid. Sometimes you msut pay depending how much you paid for your flights mine says the letter ( H) which i have upsolutely no idea what it means. If its good or premium or bad or poor.

 

[Austman]

How does that even happen!?

Smallish international airport with no air-bridges. Night time. Two flights boarding at about the same time - one domestic, one international. Both jets (MD-80s) parked fairly close to each other. One passenger managed to walk to the wrong one.

 

[love_the_life]

Barbra, the only thing that shows you are entitled to a particular seat is your boarding pass. Selecting a seat beforehand does not guarantee that seat; it is only a request and can be changed. You should check your boarding pass carefully when you get it, and develop an understanding of what the seat numbering is like on the plane you are travelling on. Then if at check in you see you have been given a seat you did not want you are able to ask if there is anything else (but not guaranteed).

 

[Pushka]

I'm sorry. I have no idea what you mean by receipts.

 

[barbra]

Barbra, the only thing that shows you are entitled to a particular seat is your boarding pass. Selecting a seat beforehand does not guarantee that seat; it is only a request and can be changed. You should check your boarding pass carefully when you get it, and develop an understanding of what the seat numbering is like on the plane you are travelling on. Then if at check in you see you have been given a seat you did not want you are able to ask if there is anything else (but not guaranteed).

Thanks. But hat
if this is on the long haul flights ? it seems i didnt paid for seats because i paid this booking airline PRO and not Value. So it gave me the aportunity to select seats for free me and my partner. What happens now if someone seats on my seat next to my husband ? And im else where now ? I choosed the Comfort seat on the conomy seat. Usually choosing those seats cost aprox 110.00 dollars on the economy seats otherwise choose other normal seats for under 30 dollars. But this time this booking i dont need to pay for a select seats maybe because ive choose pro price on the finnair website ? if i choosed value it may end up having me to pay if i select a seat.

So whats the chance now that it is free for me to select a seat ? does it still count as anyone can take my seat because its not a paid seat and does this mena i msut yet take more then 8 or so diferent receipts on a A4 paper for each seat to proof i choosed those seats in advance (for free of course) online ? those receipts are confusing it shows codes and numbers and all.

Usually you msut pay to select. But this booking i did does not requier me to pay anything for change or pick a seat on economy. Even the comfort seat on the economy was free as well and that is usually 110.00 australian dollars to select that seat which is a more wider or leg room seat.

So does this mean each of us has to take every receipt for every finnair flights ? we will be seating next to each others. At no way im letting anyone steal one of us seat and have me seated away of my husband. So whats the chance of that happening?

 

[Awesom Andy]

Even these days, I either still carry a hard copy of the e-ticket print-out along with any invoices, or have soft copies of them readily available for every flight I take. I guess I'm just that paranoid.

 

[barbra]

I'm sorry. I have no idea what you mean by receipts.

When you select a seat online qantas of finnair or which ever and you pay for selecting a seat on your fglight online in advance by using credit card or if its free you dont pay.... you end up receiving an email of your recipt seat you have selected once you hit NEXT and ENTER. its just an update that you have already selected a seat and your booking has been (UPDATED) there for you get a receipt of selecting or changing a seat. That's what a seat receipt is... Some people think you need to bring a copy of that print with you at airport only in case someone took your seleted seat number or something and you have proof of what you have brought or selected online before travel. I think receipts are confusing imaging you are have to go one stop to antoehr one plane to another and you end up selecting a seat you want on each flight and end up getting a few dozen receipts via your email. Email if you have included your email on your booking update reference that is. So it is confusing sometimes...

 

[Pushka]

Ok. Never received a seat receipt.

 

[barbra]

Even these days, I either still carry a hard copy of the e-ticket print-out along with any invoices, or have soft copies of them readily available for every flight I take. I guess I'm just that paranoid.

Im also paranoid when this
happens i have a few flights to catch and can you imagine bring a few dozen seat receipts i choosed online and show this at the counter at the airport ONLY incase someone took my seat? it can be annoying yes too many papers you would end up wondering which of those papers are that particular seat for that aprticular flight as i might end up having more then a 4 or so one place to another.. its confusing the receipts because they all look the same they all have this codes and numebrs and so on which i dont understand

 

[barbra]

Ok. Never received a seat receipt.

did you select seats online before traveled? then if so did you include an email on your booking so each time you select a seat or add something you get an update eticket on email and receipts.

 

[OATEK]

did you select seats online before traveled? then if so did you include an email on your booking so each time you select a seat or add something you get an update eticket on email and receipts.

Like others have said, there are no guarantees with seats. However, most of the time you get what you requested, at least in my experience.

I also take copies of all the paper work, which most of the time I never use.

As suggested earlier, checking your boarding pass if issued at the airport is important. But if you have checked in online, and printed your boarding pass at home, then you may not know there is an issue until boarding. Boarding early helps, possession being 9/10ths if you are first to the seat.

Good luck with your flights. I have found Finnair very good, and arguments over seats are more the exception than the rule.

 

[Pushka]

Yes selected online. Thats all. If the seat is changed at check in then so be it. Its the passengers 'changing' the seat that is the topic of this thread.

 

[GarrettM]

How does that even happen!?

A couple of months ago MrsGM boarded a VA flight to Esperance. Right before they closed the doors for pushback a fellow on board realised he was on the wrong plane, as he was been waiting for his flight to Albany.
I had intended to ask some questions about it at the time but let it go.
Curious to know how he got as far as he did.

 

[Pushka]

MrP tells the story of LA where 3 Qantas flights were departing at the same time. They boarded passengers into the wrong planes!

 

[ComeFlyWithMe]

My ex partner and I boarded a flight SFO-SYD on QF many years ago before they cut the route (noting it's now back and I'm on it later this month).

As the ground handling was outsourced to AA who gave exactly two fifths of F all about QF pax, they moved nearly every pax in the J cabin from the computer allocation so that couples on the same booking ended up in different rows, pre-selected premium seats turned into the back of the cabin centre seats.

We had to negotiate ourselves to sit together and when we informed the cabin crew, one old "queen" got upset, then proceeded to humpf their way though pre flight drink service, and at one point, struggling with a napkin, said "oh for cough*'s sake". Clearly they were as stressed as we were.

On another occasion flying LAX-JFK on QF, When I boarded my 1A BP was torn up and I was given 5D. When I got onboard I found someone else in my seat, a mother and daughter who had been placed in two different rows and had taken it upon themselves to sit where they pleased.

Now fuming, I gave the FA a piece of my mind about the ground handling, to which she responded by placing me in Y while she "rearranged" the seating. This was the old NZ based crew. She said she was sorry and gave me a hug. It was probably the most uncomfortable boarding experience I've ever had.

As a sole traveller, and QF WP, I do really find it patronising when they say "oh we've had to reaccommodate you for a family", only to find onboard two old blokes sitting in your seat. Probably QF cabin crew. They seem to come before paying pax these days.

 

[N860CR]

My ex partner and I boarded a flight SFO-SYD on QF many years ago before they cut the route (noting it's now back and I'm on it later this month).

As the ground handling was outsourced to AA who gave exactly two fifths of F all about QF pax, they moved nearly every pax in the J cabin from the computer allocation so that couples on the same booking ended up in different rows, pre-selected premium seats turned into the back of the cabin centre seats.

We had to negotiate ourselves to sit together and when we informed the cabin crew, one old "queen" got upset, then proceeded to humpf their way though pre flight drink service, and at one point, struggling with a napkin, said "oh for cough*'s sake". Clearly they were as stressed as we were.

On another occasion flying LAX-JFK on QF, When I boarded my 1A BP was torn up and I was given 5D. When I got onboard I found someone else in my seat, a mother and daughter who had been placed in two different rows and had taken it upon themselves to sit where they pleased.

Now fuming, I gave the FA a piece of my mind about the ground handling, to which she responded by placing me in Y while she "rearranged" the seating. This was the old NZ based crew. She said she was sorry and gave me a hug. It was probably the most uncomfortable boarding experience I've ever had.

As a sole traveller, and QF WP, I do really find it patronising when they say "oh we've had to reaccommodate you for a family", only to find onboard two old blokes sitting in your seat. Probably QF cabin crew. They seem to come before paying pax these days.

No... I would hazard a guess that they're not QF cabin crew or "old queens", but thanks for sharing your thoughts.

 

[aaronm]

Flying SIN-MEL redeye on SQ a few months back, plane was getting ready to taxi when a FA asked me if I'd mind changing seats to allow my neighbour's husband to sit next to her. I nervously asked where he was sitting, thinking I might have to choose between a middle seat up the back, and being a terrible person for saying no. It turned out he had a bulkhead window, so of course I "graciously" agreed to switch. Over the course of the flight about half a dozen crew came and thanked me for being so accommodating!

 

[ComeFlyWithMe]

No... I would hazard a guess that they're not QF cabin crew or "old queens", but thanks for sharing your thoughts.

There was only one old queen in the story and that was the FA. Apparently after numerous customer complaints including mine, I was advised he is no longer with QF. People with attitudes like that shouldn't be in customer service roles IMHO.

And when a WP pre-selects a seat 6 months prior to travel and then gets moved around presumably for another WP who doesn't plan appropriately, that doesn't make for a great customer experience. I only seem to have this problem with US-based ground crew who are usually outsourced through another carrier and have never had the issues ex-AU.

 

[Boca68]

There was only one old queen in the story and that was the FA. Apparently after numerous customer complaints including mine, I was advised he is no longer with QF. People with attitudes like that shouldn't be in customer service roles IMHO.

And when a WP pre-selects a seat 6 months prior to travel and then gets moved around presumably for another WP who doesn't plan appropriately, that doesn't make for a great customer experience. I only seem to have this problem with US-based ground crew who are usually outsourced through another carrier and have never had the issues ex-AU.

Shot in the dark here....I think the "old queen" reference is circa 1955? Which is what N860CR was referring to. I think?

As for your seat selection issue, 1st world problems.

 

[medhead]

we love the queeny FAs be they old or new.