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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
RGMG when people to don't sit in their booked seat on their flights.
When I boarded my flight two days, ago, someone was in my seat. He and his g/f wanted to sit together and told me I could sit in her seat, which was a cramped middle seat. I have a bad knee and when possible avoid those seats. I politely told them that I had paid for that seat including because of my knee. They said they couldnt' sit in their assigned seats because someone else was in there, but refused to tell me which seats those were. I said if there was a family with kids trying to sit togehter, I would make sure they can do that. They continued to argue with me until the flight attendant had to get involved.
Why do people do this? it puts the other person in an awkward position where you feel like you are somehow the bad guy in the whole thing.
Again, if there is a young child needing to sit with a parent, I'm 100% fine with accomodating that. But I'm not going to take a worse seat so you and your partner can sit together.
And then on the second flight dude next to me had taken something and was out of it. He spent most of the flight full on sleeping on my chest and shoulder. I'll be honest, I was intimidated by him. He was very large, grumpy, and just seemed off. I didn't want to have a real problem with him while hurtling through the sky.
Long day of travel.
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That's BS. Sit in your seat and ask someone else to change. If people really want to sit together they'll offer the "better" seat in trade (ie their window for a middle). If they have 2 middles then they didn't want to sit together enough to pay for it which doesn't seem like my problem.
At least in Canada anyone with kids under 12 gets free seat selection even on basic fares, which I would agree is the group I'm willing to switch for, but that shouldn't be necessary any more.