Vindictive seat selection?

[greenfish]

Ok, I confess, I'm platinum, and in absolute desperation I will take the middle seat (much as I despise this seat) in Row 4 - if the only other option is 10C or worse.

Why?

Taxis.

In both CBR and BNE, being first off the plane makes a HUGE difference at peak hour. But I know I hate the middle seat, and I also know it doesn't improve the flight for my neighbours.

 

[medhead]

Well I've banged on about middle seat takers but I should confess to doing so myself, rarely. If you can see from fare availability or dummy bookings that the flight is going to be full them there is no reason to avoid a forward middle seat.

What I also find is that those middle seats will remain blocked after T-80 but then open up closer to flight time. That's seems to indicate a full flight. A few flights were you do multiple checks of the seat selection and it becomes easy to recognise patterns and make predictions.

 

[Pushka]

the problem is that the comment it misinformed. No one is looking down on anyone. The comment clearly referred to people who take middle seats when there are plenty of better seats down the back.

Looking at it from the Platinum end of the scale, I'll specifically choose an aisle seat with nobody in the middle and it irks me when some noob bronze person decides to take the middle seat towards the front, despite there being plenty of better seats towards the back.

I think some people are.....

Ok, I confess, I'm platinum, and in absolute desperation I will take the middle seat (much as I despise this seat) in Row 4 - if the only other option is 10C or worse..TAXIS.....

Which gets back to my point that seats up the front are better than ones down the back. Even when they are in the middle.

Reckon i am going to irk some people here, although how they would know I am a 'noob bronze' instead of gold, silver or platinum is interesting.

 

[samiam]

Reckon i am going to irk some people here, although how they would know I am a 'noob bronze' instead of gold, silver or platinum is interesting.

IME, such noobs:

1. Have a grin from ear to ear like the cat that got the cream.
2. Look around themselves to see if anyone has noticed where they are sitting
3. Have difficulty with <insert example here> (eg. light/seat controls, luggage stowage, etc)
4. Talk to you about their wonderful seating selection, how lucky they are and how they are entirely uncertain how it happened.
5. Ensure that you are aware how frequently they fly, 3 times a year, from A to B

Evil I know- but there's a grain of truth somewhere in there

 

[nlagalle]

IME, such noobs:

1. Have a grin from ear to ear like the cat that got the cream.
2. Look around themselves to see if anyone has noticed where they are sitting
3. Have difficulty with <insert example here> (eg. light/seat controls, luggage stowage, etc)
4. Talk to you about their wonderful seating selection, how lucky they are and how they are entirely uncertain how it happened.
5. Ensure that you are aware how frequently they fly, 3 times a year, from A to B

Evil I know- but there's a grain of truth somewhere in there

And all of that before you see that their BP has either bronze on it or nothing at all!

 

[medhead]

Looking at it from the Platinum end of the scale, I'll specifically choose an aisle seat with nobody in the middle and it irks me when some noob bronze person decides to take the middle seat towards the front, despite there being plenty of better seats towards the back.

I think some people are......

Interesting that you selectively ignore the rest of the sentence. You know someone is a noob when they are sat in row 6 middle and there are whole rows empty further back.

IME, such noobs:

3. Have difficulty with <insert example here> (eg. light/seat controls, luggage stowage, etc)

Guilty as charged. I have difficulty with the arm rest tables. But I did get really annoyed on one flight when I had a drink only, I put the plastic cup in the seat pocket and some noob gold in the middle seat tried to tell me the table was in the arm rest. Yeah really? I thought I could just pull down the seat pocket as a table.

And all of that before you see that their BP has either bronze on it or nothing at all!

Exactly.

 

[Archphoto]

I to thought I had seat selection sussed, but my last trip SYD-BKK had me totally flabbergasted!
28D that I'd been allocated and stayed as such since booking; even checked the night before and still showing.

Got to check-in in ADL and I'm suddenly in row 41???:shock: What's going on?? Couldn't change in ADL but was able to get Row 40 bulkheadin SYD, which was better, but really? Why have allocated seats for FF when they get changed on a whim?

 

[Lawlass]

But I did get really annoyed on one flight when I had a drink only, I put the plastic cup in the seat pocket and some noob gold in the middle seat tried to tell me the table was in the arm rest. Yeah really? I thought I could just pull down the seat pocket as a table.

Yeah, how dare someone try to be helpful.

Stuffing things like cups and bottles into seat pockets results in annoying bumps to the person in front, like a kid kicking the seat. Maybe the noob gold was just trying to educate you in manners.

 

[nlagalle]

I to thought I had seat selection sussed, but my last trip SYD-BKK had me totally flabbergasted!
28D that I'd been allocated and stayed as such since booking; even checked the night before and still showing.

Got to check-in in ADL and I'm suddenly in row 41???:shock: What's going on?? Couldn't change in ADL but was able to get Row 40 bulkheadin SYD, which was better, but really? Why have allocated seats for FF when they get changed on a whim?

Aircraft change perhaps?? I've only ever had my seat changed when planes were swapped

 

[Archphoto]

Possibly, but no answers forthcoming to my polite enquiry as to why it was changed.
Put it down to "one of those things" that come up every now and then when I fly. :mrgreen: I'm lucky that I haven't had it happen before, and wondered what would have happened if I'd paid the extra for an exit row seat for my partner? (Kind of glad I didn't considering the seat changes.)

 

[Pushka]

And all of that before you see that their BP has either bronze on it or nothing at all!

Hmm, you mean that tiny slip of paper they give you now?

 

[Pushka]

Interesting that you selectively ignore the rest of the sentence. You know someone is a noob when they are sat in row 6 middle and there are whole rows empty further back..

This is going in circles. Can you not consider they are NOT noobs but simply people who want to sit closer to the exit, even if it means having to put up with stuffy WP's on each side? Certainly another WP on this thread has said exactly that! I hate sitting at the rear, and will always book a seat as close to the front as possible, and maybe just hope that one of the people that might be (then) seated next to me might be late for their flight and miss it.

 

[nlagalle]

Possibly, but no answers forthcoming to my polite enquiry as to why it was changed.
Put it down to "one of those things" that come up every now and then when I fly. :mrgreen: I'm lucky that I haven't had it happen before, and wondered what would have happened if I'd paid the extra for an exit row seat for my partner? (Kind of glad I didn't considering the seat changes.)

Were you in Y? as it sounds very much like it went from something like an A330 to a B747 (being Row 40 is a bulkhead).

 

[nlagalle]

Hmm, you mean that tiny slip of paper they give you now?

Only if you use your FF card or mobile phone. I find most "noobs" have a full slip BP as they aren't up with that sort of stuff. Just personal observations.

 

[Archphoto]

Were you in Y? as it sounds very much like it went from something like an A330 to a B747 (being Row 40 is a bulkhead).

Yes we were flying Y, but I thought (from memory) it was a 747 from the outset as it was SYD-BKK-LHR. (Row 28 was also a bulkhead originally too.)

 

[nlagalle]

Yes we were flying Y, but I thought (from memory) it was a 747 from the outset as it was SYD-BKK-LHR. (Row 28 was also a bulkhead originally too.)

Ahh could have gone from a 2 or 3 class to a 4 class.

 

[Archphoto]

Aha! That *must* be it - must've been a *very* late change then.

 

[nlagalle]

Aha! That *must* be it - must've been a *very* late change then.

you think that is odd? I've had about 5 a/c subs in the last 6 months..

 

[medhead]

Yeah, how dare someone try to be helpful.

Stuffing things like cups and bottles into seat pockets results in annoying bumps to the person in front, like a kid kicking the seat. Maybe the noob gold was just trying to educate you in manners.

Sorry, I left out that this was row 4 on 73H. (of course you might have got that because besides bulkheads those are some of the few seats with the table in the armrest) So business seats in front that are well padded such that it can't be felt. Of course, I could ask if I'm also allowed to read the in flight magazine

This is going in circles. Can you not consider they are NOT noobs but simply people who want to sit closer to the exit, even if it means having to put up with stuffy WP's on each side? Certainly another WP on this thread has said exactly that! I hate sitting at the rear, and will always book a seat as close to the front as possible, and maybe just hope that one of the people that might be (then) seated next to me might be late for their flight and miss it.

No it's not going in circles, you call people stuffy, which would be fair if the aircraft was full. Unfortunately, the post that you quote did not talk about a full aircraft. Just noting that in that specific situation you're stuffy comments aren't really appropriate.

 

[Archphoto]

you think that is odd? I've had about 5 a/c subs in the last 6 months..

Wow!! I've been *really* lucky then. (Unless they've changed on me in the past, but my seat has remained the same.)
Hope you didn't have too great a seat change for any of them?