The Irritatingly Successful Seat Poachers
Stowing my bag before I sat in an aisle seat of a Boeing 777-300 aircraft to which I was assigned, a woman comes and places her bag on what was to be my seat for the next 14 hours for a transatlantic flight; and on that seat was a clean unused pillow.
“Could you please remove your bag from my seat?” I asked politely.
“Yeah, yeah, yeah,” she grunted indifferently as she plunked another bag on my seat so that she may stow a third bag into the overhead bin with which she and her husband were traveling.
This flight is already not starting off well for me; but it is a minor issue. Besides, I…
Seat Poaching From the Other Point of View…and Cooties?
I asked you what do you do about seat poachers — people who will help themselves to seats which are assigned to other people in order to be seated near a loved one as one of many reasons — back on March 29, 2013; and the comments in response related the experiences and opinions of seat poaching all too clearly…
…but what about the point of view of the seat poacher?
FlyerTalk member injera — who I am not accusing of being a seat poacher, to be clear — asked for opinions to the following scenarios…
Should Seats Which Recline and Not Recline Be Sectioned Off From Each Other?
There are airlines whose aircraft are equipped with reclining seats; and there are those airlines whose aircraft are equipped with seats which do not recline…
…but what if the seats on an airplane were equipped with two sections: one with reclining seats; and one without reclining seats?
“It would make sense either to have…
Seat Recline Battle Results in Flight Diversion; Police Called
Two passengers were embroiled in a heated argument aboard an airplane which operated as United Airlines flight 1462 over seat recline on Sunday, August 24, 2014 — resulting in the airplane being diverted to Chicago, where police and agents of the Transportation Security Administration were summoned.
The fight reportedly started when…
United Airlines Reduces Number of Economy Plus Seats on CRJ-700 Aircraft
FlyerTalk member UA Insider — also known as Aaron Goldberg, who is the senior manager of Customer Experience Planning at United Airlines — announced this morning the the number of seats in the Economy Plus section of its entire fleet of Canadair Regional Jet CRJ-700 aircraft will be reduced from 32 seats to…
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