Someone's in my seat

[razors_girl23]

No they don't unless one has a fear of flying.

I will never understand it.

And if one of you gets upgraded then please take the upgrade.

I have a fear of flying, but if I was offered an upgrade, I'd leave my husband behind in a heartbeat

 

[blackcat20]

I have a fear of flying, but if I was offered an upgrade, I'd leave my husband behind in a heartbeat

I don't have a fear of flying but I still took the upgrade

 

[Mick1969]

Slightly off topic but somewhat related. On a recent AA flight in the US in First, I've stored my backpack in the overhead locker above my seat. A late boarder with an oversize bag couldn't squeeze the bag in above me despite several rearranging and ramming techniques. I politely asked her to be a bit more careful as there were breakables in my bag.

Very shortly after she decided to remove my backpack and was heading towards the front with it, to which I said "Excuse me that is my bag" she responded with, "Do you mind?". "Yes I do mind, that is my bag leave it alone."

For what it's worth, she then found room above her seat for her bag.

 

[katiebell]

Slightly off topic but somewhat related. On a recent AA flight in the US in First, I've stored my backpack in the overhead locker above my seat. A late boarder with an oversize bag couldn't squeeze the bag in above me despite several rearranging and ramming techniques. I politely asked her to be a bit more careful as there were breakables in my bag.

Very shortly after she decided to remove my backpack and was heading towards the front with it, to which I said "Excuse me that is my bag" she responded with, "Do you mind?". "Yes I do mind, that is my bag leave it alone."

For what it's worth, she then found room above her seat for her bag.

I've also experienced pax think it is OK to shove my bag around/move it elsewhere etc (despite me putting it against the edge of the luggage bin and not in the middle with wasted space). If I wanted it elsewhere in the aircraft I would have put it elsewhere. In short leave what is not yours alone and if you cannot fit your bag in ask the other pax before moving their things. Just common courtesy really.

 

[medhead]

Our stupid theatre has assigned seating. AND SOMEONE WAS IN MY SEAT just now. They knew. Wanted my aisle seat. .

Going to see my big fat Greek wedding 2. Obviously I am home alone.

I am not happy her large thigh is pressing against my drink bottle. She is closer to me than her companion. A bit of passive aggressive happening.

I love assigned theatre seating. No more rushing, pushing, shoving, standing around for hours on end just to get a good seat. Makes going to the movies much more civilised.

Had a bad experience of some goose in our seats once. Family in our seats, because 2 young girls were in their seats. He wanted to have a fight over it! Couldn't move 2 teenagers but wanted to fight me. the row behind made space, which isn't a solution if someone else comes along. Anyway, theatre management said next time go out and get them to deal with it. They will basically stop the movie until people move, at least that was their claim.

 

[Quickstatus]

When i was in University, there was a odd student in our class. He would always sit in the front row on the aisle immediately to the lecturer's left.

We would irritate him by sitting in "his" spot. He would get very cranky and would sit next to you and keep looking at you throughout the class. After a few of our incursions he wrote a letter to the Dean complaining of our boorish behaviour. Not sure what reply he got but the class got a general note to be civil. After that he would come in super early to guarantee his spot.

 

[opusman]

I would put money on it that they were both NB's who had done a last minute points upgrade. You won't meet a more entitled group than that.

I always find it "ironic" that as a WP I can't pick row 1 in J unless I remember at T-80 or bother changing seats during online checkin, and row 1 seems to always be at least half full of ODU NBs.

 

[SpudOz]

 sighing.

Gotta love this thread!!

 

[katiebell]

When the LCC started in Aus they tried free-for-all boarding by not allocating seats: it did not work as Aussies did not like it. Even more reason for crew to enforce allocated seats and for pax to sit in the allocated seat

 

[Guvner]

When the LCC started in Aus they tried free-for-all boarding by not allocating seats: it did not work as Aussies did not like it. Even more reason for crew to enforce allocated seats and for pax to sit in the allocated seat

I remember flying in one of these back in 1992 from Plovdiv airport.




The seating was a free for all and there was an all in brawl in the first few rows which resulted in the Military Police escorting about 10 pax from the plane.

Those Bulgarian MP's looked pretty mean too!.

As an aside, the trolley came through with Vodka, chocolate and not much else to purchase. I bought a Toblerone for about 40 cents and had a chuckle when I saw it was packaged in Salmon St Port Melbourne, about 500 meters from where I was living at the time. If I'd bought the same chocolate in Melbourne it would have been 10 times the price. Given how much stuff gets knicked from the shipping docks I suspect Bulkan Air may have got their confectionery from some shady sources.

 

[Pushka]

We were on a US flight that didn't have assigned seating. From Las Vegas to LA from memory. Family was separated but I recall Master P and I sharing pizza brought on by a Mexican family with whom we shared a row or two.

 

[kelvedon]

In the late 80's I was waiting patiently near the front of the queue for an Indian Airlines flight from Varanasi to Kathmandu. The trusty bible of the day, the Lonely Planet India, suggested sitting on the RHS of the aircraft for a view of the Himalayas. There was no seat allocation.
The ageing 737 was parked about 50 metres away on the apron and when they opened the door the front of the queue proceeded at a brisk walking pace towards the plane, but we were soon overtaken by a group of about 10 tourists whose nationality I shan't divulge ( but Napolean was once their emperor) running past.
Naturally the sprinters got to the saircraft well before us, but they were halted by the .303 wielding army guard by the stairs and made to stand aside whilst until the rest of us were aboard the aircraft.

 

[Pushka]

This view? Opposite direction. So not your seat.

 

[Flashback]

On a recent LHR-OTP 2 people held a boarding pass for the same seat........ took the FA's about 20 minutes to sort out in the end. Not sure how that could have happened and both boarded without issue.

 

[kelvedon]

This view? Opposite direction.
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Funnily enough the plane landed in the same direction as yours so it was the LHS with the view.....but that little detail didn't embellish my story.

 

[JohnK]

I have a fear of flying, but if I was offered an upgrade, I'd leave my husband behind in a heartbeat

And the other way around?

 

[Vel]

I did a seat swap when travelling solo JFK-LAX. Since I was travelling on a codeshare, and couldn't pick my own seats, they assigned me aisle seats. Since I was heading back to SYD, I asked the attendant to swap me to an aisle, which they allowed.

Once I got onboard, they asked me to swap for a bulkhead so a couple would be able to sit together, which I didn't mind at all!

 

[bjm76]

I had this a few years back. SYD to BKK on QF A330. Me and partner had picked the 2 seats in whY on the side of the cabin. One of the first to board and middle aged couple from India in our seats. Pretended not to understand English when I pointed out they were in our seats. Showed them my boarding pass and the compared to theirs (reluctantly) - they were allocated same row but seats in the middle. Absolutely filthy stares from them when they moved. And then the male traveller took off his sandals and poked his bare foot towards me for the duration of the flight (I had the aisle seat). Turns out he spoke good Engliah when the FA asked him what he wanted to drink. He kept glaring at me for the first 2 hours of the flight. V unpleasant.

 

[ComeFlyWithMe]

I had this a few years back. SYD to BKK on QF A330. Me and partner had picked the 2 seats in whY on the side of the cabin. One of the first to board and middle aged couple from India in our seats. Pretended not to understand English when I pointed out they were in our seats. Showed them my boarding pass and the compared to theirs (reluctantly) - they were allocated same row but seats in the middle. Absolutely filthy stares from them when they moved. And then the male traveller took off his sandals and poked his bare foot towards me for the duration of the flight (I had the aisle seat). Turns out he spoke good Engliah when the FA asked him what he wanted to drink. He kept glaring at me for the first 2 hours of the flight. V unpleasant.

This story made me recall a flight about 10 years ago to Singapore in Y on a QF A330. I had a window seat but a man of a similar nationality decided he would lean over me blocking the IFE to stare out the window. I proceeded to push him back into his seat and say "excuse me" in an angry tone. Seemed to get the picture. This was after he was extremely rude to the FA on multiple occasions. Went and congregated with about 8 people of similar nationality around the bathroom for most of the remainder of the flight, during which I had a brief chat with the FA and asked her how she deals with rude people like that all the time. She told me she got used to it.

I know there are cultural differences but there are never any valid reasons to disrespect someone serving you. I see this in western business men just as often.

That day I decided I would do everything in my power to never fly international Y again, and I think, apart from a quick trip over the ditch or up to Fiji, I don't believe I ever did again. Thanks in large part to the resources here mind you.

 

[katiebell]

On the topic of assuming the right to a better seat than the one allocated I had settled into 1A on a 2 hour flight having boarded early. Towards the end of boarding a large family got on. The senior female member was morbidly obese and, after some discussion betwen her son and the FA, was squashed into seat 1C blocking my exit completely and also partly obstructing the aisle in J. It was quite clear that they had booked Y seats and used her size to get a free upgrade. Annoyed me immensely that they had not been made to buy an extra seat for her and that we, the paying pax, had to suffer the inconvenience imposed on us. This is not a complaint about the morbidly obese, only about the misuse of the obesity to gain upgrades.

This reminds me of a story told by a FA friend about another morbidly obese pax in Y: he cleary did not fit in his seat and was asking [almost demanding] an upgrade. The FA moved the 2 squashed female pax in his row to J. He complained that he had not been moved to which the reply was: "sir, you are a very lucky man: you have the only 2 empty seats in economy next to you". Meanwhile the 2 female pax had a lovely long haul flight. (hopefully not too much off topic)