Why do so many idiots ask to switch seats on planes these days?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You're assuming people are intentionally not booking seats together when there are many scenarios where this could happen and it was not their fault. For example a family could have missed their connecting flight due to a delay on the first flight and had to get bumped to a later flight. And that flight doesn't have seats together. Or there is a last minute plane swap and all the seats get reassigned.

Or in my case, I work for an airline and travel with my husband and son often. Many times the flight is packed so we get assigned random seats. I NEVER ask anyone to switch unless its to an equal or better seat. However most times people offer to switch when they see I'm with a young child, even when it meant switching to a worse or middle seat. I'm always thankful for people like that - lets me know there are still some kind and unselfish people left in the world.

Boo hoo. It's not my problem as a passenger who may have picked their seat. Take it up with the airline.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't mind as long as it is a switch to an aisle and in the same section of the plane. Sometimes a flight gets cancelled and you have to take whatever is left and that can mean separating couples and families that bought tickets together on the previous flight.

Who cares. You'll live people. You can go a few hours apart. Good grief, where they gonna go?

Being seated away from your children is actually a safety concern you dipshits.

How? Provide citations to incidents that have actually occurred.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s bizarre to me how attached some people immediately become to their arbitrarily assigned (or selected) seat for a one-time flight. As if you have birth to that seat, or spent years lovingly designing it or hand-crafting it.

I assume it’s just a temporary psychotic reaction to the stress and dehumanization that is modern commercial air flight.

I have a blood clotting disorder and am under medical orders to frequently get up to avoid blood clots, and to keep my legs stretched out. There is no way I’m risking a blood clot so you can sit next to your spouse. I will rebook flights until I get an economy plus or business/first aisle seat, and I absolutely do not care what your sob story is. My life is worth more to me than your whining.

No one cares about your blot clotting sob story. Just say “no” if someone asks if you will sit in a different aisle seat that exactly the same as your aisle seat and move in with your life.

Um, yes. That is what I do. I say no, like a normal person. Why are you so weird?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s bizarre to me how attached some people immediately become to their arbitrarily assigned (or selected) seat for a one-time flight. As if you have birth to that seat, or spent years lovingly designing it or hand-crafting it.

I assume it’s just a temporary psychotic reaction to the stress and dehumanization that is modern commercial air flight.

LOL. And if you saw that seat under blacklight, you would promptly abandon it like yesterday's trash!

Abandon it, for what? The seat someone else is offering that looks the same as my current seat under a blacklight?

Why abandon a dirty-under-a-blacklight seat for a different dirty-under-a-blacklight seat?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s bizarre to me how attached some people immediately become to their arbitrarily assigned (or selected) seat for a one-time flight. As if you have birth to that seat, or spent years lovingly designing it or hand-crafting it.

I assume it’s just a temporary psychotic reaction to the stress and dehumanization that is modern commercial air flight.

I have a blood clotting disorder and am under medical orders to frequently get up to avoid blood clots, and to keep my legs stretched out. There is no way I’m risking a blood clot so you can sit next to your spouse. I will rebook flights until I get an economy plus or business/first aisle seat, and I absolutely do not care what your sob story is. My life is worth more to me than your whining.

No one cares about your blot clotting sob story. Just say “no” if someone asks if you will sit in a different aisle seat that exactly the same as your aisle seat and move in with your life.

That is never what is demanded by the entitled. It’s always “take the window and I get the aisle,” or something like that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't mind as long as it is a switch to an aisle and in the same section of the plane. Sometimes a flight gets cancelled and you have to take whatever is left and that can mean separating couples and families that bought tickets together on the previous flight.

Who cares. You'll live people. You can go a few hours apart. Good grief, where they gonna go?

Being seated away from your children is actually a safety concern you dipshits.

How? Provide citations to incidents that have actually occurred.

They don't usually let small children be seated away from their kids. The flight attendants will hold the flight until the issue is sorted out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't mind as long as it is a switch to an aisle and in the same section of the plane. Sometimes a flight gets cancelled and you have to take whatever is left and that can mean separating couples and families that bought tickets together on the previous flight.

Who cares. You'll live people. You can go a few hours apart. Good grief, where they gonna go?

Being seated away from your children is actually a safety concern you dipshits.

How? Provide citations to incidents that have actually occurred.

They don't usually let small children be seated away from their kids. The flight attendants will hold the flight until the issue is sorted out.

Should be "They don't let small children be seated away from their parents" because yes, of course it's a safety issue at a certain age. Not to mention a liability issue.

[Anonymous]

I’ve only asked once. My three year old was assigned to a window seat and there was a couple in the middle and aisle. I was on the aisle directly across and I asked if my daughter could sit on the aisle so she would be next to me. They were happy to make the switch.

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Airlines should be required to seat kids under a certain age with a parent. We had an airline try to seat our 3 year old alone. No, fix that.

This requirement will cause airlines to lose seat selection revenue; the response will be higher ticket prices for everyone.

We selected seats together. The airline rearranged seats. Young kids need to be kept with a parent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't mind as long as it is a switch to an aisle and in the same section of the plane. Sometimes a flight gets cancelled and you have to take whatever is left and that can mean separating couples and families that bought tickets together on the previous flight.

Who cares. You'll live people. You can go a few hours apart. Good grief, where they gonna go?

Being seated away from your children is actually a safety concern you dipshits.

How? Provide citations to incidents that have actually occurred.

They don't usually let small children be seated away from their kids. The flight attendants will hold the flight until the issue is sorted out.

Why are all these people saying they've sat separated from their kids? Why didn't the flight attendants sort it out if it's so dangerous?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I booked tickets last month for a trip in a few weeks. Would have happily paid for two sets of two seats but only singles are available for my family of four. Hoping a person switches (window for window, one row up) so I can sit next to my 5 year old. My 8 year old will be fine by herself for a few hours.

How else would you handle besides asking to switch?

You should not have booked that flight. You should have booked a different flight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We selected seats together. The airline rearranged seats. Young kids need to be kept with a parent.

The airline separated you from your young children, despite you selecting your seats?

"They don't let small children be seated away from their parents" because yes, of course it's a safety issue at a certain age. Not to mention a liability issue.

Airlines will separate parents from young children, despite parents selecting seats for children too young to be separated from a parent.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t be a grinch.

How is does one person's unwillingness to plan &/or pay accordingly make the person who did plan &/or pay a grinch. One person took the proper steps, the other is either stupid or pretending to be stupid, which is stupid.

What steps are you proposing to that I could take to stop inclement weather and or mechanical issues from causing a flight to be cancelled?

You can keep your fiction that I somehow did something wrong that caused my flight to be cancelled while yours wasn't. I did plan, pay for and book seats.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't mind as long as it is a switch to an aisle and in the same section of the plane. Sometimes a flight gets cancelled and you have to take whatever is left and that can mean separating couples and families that bought tickets together on the previous flight.

Who cares. You'll live people. You can go a few hours apart. Good grief, where they gonna go?

Being seated away from your children is actually a safety concern you dipshits.

How? Provide citations to incidents that have actually occurred.

You want citations for every time a plane had to be evacuated?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't mind as long as it is a switch to an aisle and in the same section of the plane. Sometimes a flight gets cancelled and you have to take whatever is left and that can mean separating couples and families that bought tickets together on the previous flight.

Who cares. You'll live people. You can go a few hours apart. Good grief, where they gonna go?

Being seated away from your children is actually a safety concern you dipshits.

How? Provide citations to incidents that have actually occurred.

They don't usually let small children be seated away from their kids. The flight attendants will hold the flight until the issue is sorted out.

Why are all these people saying they've sat separated from their kids? Why didn't the flight attendants sort it out if it's so dangerous?

They told me it was up to me to trade seats with other passengers on the plane. They wouldn't help.