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

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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.

This has happened to us on the last 2 out of 3 flights where our flight was cancelled and our family was completely separated with one child of medical needs. I told the flight attendant of this, but they didn't give a damn when they rebook our flights.

What do you expect them to do if all the other seats have been assigned to other passengers? You aren’t entitled to someone else’s seat. Traveling commercially sucks sometimes. That’s just a fact of life.

DP. the other passengers need to get bumped from their seat and compensated if they paid for it. It’s a passenger safety issue for small children to be separated from their parents, both in terms of sitting next to strangers and in the event of an accident where the child would be unassisted and the parent would move heaven and earth to get to the child to evacuate etc. DOT should do a regulation on this. kids under a certain age or anyone with special needs need to be seated next to caregiver.

They started the rulemaking process for this very thing. But the new administration hates regulations. So I highly doubt it will become final.

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Anonymous wrote:I had a boomer guy not want to switch seats with my spouse who was randomly assigned a different seatat the back of first class he claimed wanting to be off the plane first. I was like ok but it did make for an awkward rest of the flight. It's always the old people who are inflexible and think they are king.

You sound entitled.

Right? Why didn't PP ask the person next to his wife to move? PP clearly wanted the better seat at the front for the same reasons this man wanted to keep his seat.

Exactly. That PP sounds like a totally entitled jerk.

Wrong again, the person next to my wife was sitting next to their spouse and the person next to me was some ingle flying boomer

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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?

Well, it depends on the age of the kids, obviously.

In my experience, flight attendants won't help you. Gate agents might.

My little kids have flown separate from me, but a middle seat was too much for them. It's rough being a 6 year old girl between two big men. DD burst into tears. I did switch with her because my middle seat was at least with females. Our original flight was cancelled and we got scattered all over the next flight out. My 3 year old would be a safety issue. There's ZERO way she'd buckle her seat or remain sitting if I wasn't next to her.

The companies are doing this to us for no reason. I've flown extensively in S. America and this isn't even an issue on their carriers. They automatically put families together, even if you're just two adult married people. The US carriers seem to prefer it if it's like Lord of the Flies on their planes.

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Anonymous wrote:You all need to be directing your ire to the right place: the airlines, who create this Lord of the Flies situation, while laughing all the way to the bank.

Everyone keeps saying this. What are the (legal) options here?

- Write congress (lol)
- Negative online reviews (lol)
- Vote with our dollars and stop flying

Complaints to DOT. It worked to get the Biden admin to propose a rule that children under 13 must be seated with a parent, with no extra fees. The rule is not yet final. Pressure for the new admin to finalize it might be helpful.

https://www.transportation.gov/airconsumer/NPRM_Family_Seating

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It's one thing for kids under 12 to sit alone, but it's different when it's overnight flights. I personally wouldn't want to sit with a random 8 year old on an overnight flight. They'd definitely try to sleep on my shoulder or lap in the middle of the night. I'd also be afraid of my kids being assaulted under the blankets. I'm not an anxious person but it's just too much on overnight flights.

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Contracts of carriage are very vague, airline friendly and offer you very little. I agree the airlines are not operating from a position of benevolence, but they can get away with their greed because people are not willing to vote with their feet. If it were really that bad you could refuse to fly at all. But no, you don’t want to do that. So the free market allows this.

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Anonymous wrote:I would switch seats only to be next to Mel Gibson.

He is bigot, why would you want that?

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Anonymous wrote:This is another scenario that should be simple:

1: Customer A politely asks Customer B to accommodate a seat change.

2: Customer B, who is under no obligation to accommodate the request, decides based on the context, and either agrees or politely declines.

3: Customer A expresses gratitude for accommodation or politely accepts Customer A's denial.

Please tell me where the need is for "OUTRAGE!" in the above scenario, and why it can't be this way every time?

Because #3 doesn't happen and Customer A throws a fit about not getting their way. If it really happened that way every time, asking would not be an issue. But people are a$$holes.

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Anonymous wrote:I'll switch to an equal or better seat, but not a worse seat. Only exception I would accommodate a parent with a small (below school age) child.

My experience has been that most people do volunteer to trade when they're actually faced with the possibility of sitting next to a solo 5-10 yo. They may want to draw a hard line, but they also don't want to deal with sitting next to (and implicitly being responsible for) a kid on a long flight. They may be unhappy about it, but the choice is forced upon them.

To each his/her own but I would have no problem sitting next to a 5+ year old.

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The best is when someone jsut SITS IN YOUR SEAT. Um what? A man wanted to sit next to his adult daughter. No sir, I’m going to sit next to my 5 year old who I paid to sit next to. Jesus.

[Anonymous]

I don’t mind or care if it is the same aisle for an aisle like a few rows different and I’m traveling solo.

We are a family of 5. I usually book Window, Middle, Aisle and then two Aisles or another Aisle/Center. Some flights the Aisle is further away and if we ask, an aisle for an aisle and it is 1-2 rows, they almost always say yes, especially if they haven’t sat down yet. I always pay to pick our seats. It is when the flight was more full and can’t get 5 together. We usually don’t ask because I book us together.

The more challenging is when I fly with just my young daughter and a flight was cancelled or we changed flights and I can’t buy seats together. I will buy middle and aisle close together. One year I had two middles and I didn’t ask to switch. No one wants to switch an aisle for a middle. I just sat behind my daughter.👶

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is another scenario that should be simple:

1: Customer A politely asks Customer B to accommodate a seat change.

2: Customer B, who is under no obligation to accommodate the request, decides based on the context, and either agrees or politely declines.

3: Customer A expresses gratitude for accommodation or politely accepts Customer A's denial.

Please tell me where the need is for "OUTRAGE!" in the above scenario, and why it can't be this way every time?

Because #3 doesn't happen and Customer A throws a fit about not getting their way. If it really happened that way every time, asking would not be an issue. But people are a$$holes.

Please give us the details of the many times you politely declined to switch seats on a plane and the asker threw a fit.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is another scenario that should be simple:

1: Customer A politely asks Customer B to accommodate a seat change.

2: Customer B, who is under no obligation to accommodate the request, decides based on the context, and either agrees or politely declines.

3: Customer A expresses gratitude for accommodation or politely accepts Customer A's denial.

Please tell me where the need is for "OUTRAGE!" in the above scenario, and why it can't be this way every time?

Because #3 doesn't happen and Customer A throws a fit about not getting their way. If it really happened that way every time, asking would not be an issue. But people are a$$holes.

Please give us the details of the many times you politely declined to switch seats on a plane and the asker threw a fit.

Many. I fly 2-3 times a month. Also, you must not be on social media. It's all over the place there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t mind or care if it is the same aisle for an aisle like a few rows different and I’m traveling solo.

We are a family of 5. I usually book Window, Middle, Aisle and then two Aisles or another Aisle/Center. Some flights the Aisle is further away and if we ask, an aisle for an aisle and it is 1-2 rows, they almost always say yes, especially if they haven’t sat down yet. I always pay to pick our seats. It is when the flight was more full and can’t get 5 together. We usually don’t ask because I book us together.

The more challenging is when I fly with just my young daughter and a flight was cancelled or we changed flights and I can’t buy seats together. I will buy middle and aisle close together. One year I had two middles and I didn’t ask to switch. No one wants to switch an aisle for a middle. I just sat behind my daughter.👶

You were lucky. Usually when it's a cancelled flight/rebooking situation, there are only random middle seats nowhere near each other. And as you said, no one wants to switch for a middle.

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Anonymous wrote:You can book your flights six months out or six hours out and the airlines can still change equipment to a different seat configuration and then all your careful selection of the most speshul seat in the plane for your speshul self is out the window.

"speshul"? You're mocking people who pay or book well in advance to select seats?

Anonymous wrote:I have a young child with SN and so we book well in advance and select seats whenever we can, but yeah when I was flying with my family to see a dying relative I didn’t get that option and I told the airline to sort it out. They did, and promptly, because the risk of an ADA suit or cell phone video of a three year old screaming for her parents wasn’t worth it to them.

So it's only a mockery when other people select seats ("speshul"). You're the only person with special needs who matters.

Your complaint is with the airlines.

Then why are you directing the mockery at other passengers?

Only you can mock passengers?

It’s a win for them that you blame your fellow passengers.

It's obvious you don't understand anything you are saying.

See also: all debate about seats reclining.

Let me guess:

- Other passengers who recline seats = bad/speshul
- You when you recline seats = good

I’m mocking people who are so rigid that they would get worked up to the point of a DCUM post over people asking to change seats over changes which are *completely out of their control* and then not realizing their complaint is with an airline not the mom who needs to sit with her kid (which is better for everyone on the plane, not just the speshul snowflake you seem to be).