Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Maybe they need seat options. Like some seats are wider, some have more leg room, some are just cheap. I personally wouldn't mind standing like Ryan Air proposed.
I’m normal sized (5’7”, normal BMI) and would consider buying a bigger/wider seat if they were offered. I feel squished I can imagine how much worse it is for others.
Anonymous wrote:Maybe they need seat options. Like some seats are wider, some have more leg room, some are just cheap. I personally wouldn't mind standing like Ryan Air proposed.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I would have been more polite about it, but I also would have been as firm as possible that I needed to be moved. GO get a flight attendant, and say, "Look, I don't want to make a big deal about this, but the people on either side of me are infringing on my seat. I paid for a seat - a full seat - and I need to be moved." And take it from there, staying firm, but polite. I also would have resisted being rebooked - I am not the one who created this issue, and one of them needs to be rebooked if that's the only solution.
Good luck with that. You can be polite all day long but airline customer service STINKS. You’ll be the one getting rebooked.
Rightly so. She's the one with the problem. When has air travel ever been pleasant?
Sorry, no. When not one, but two people are spilling into my seat, I *have* the problem, but I am not the one who *created* the problem. The burden of the remedy should fall on the one who caused the situation. [/quote
The situation creators worked with the system and paid for the right to pick their seats. The middle seat sucks no matter who is in the aisle and window seat. You get what you pay for.
Yes, *their* seats, you dimwit. Not a portion of the seat next to them.
I'm more of s smart ass than a dimwit, you dunderhead!
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We need to stop all this petty infighting and force airlines to step up.
I fly often and don't have an issue. Hell I flew with a lap infant in a middle seat last week and never crossed the line. I did think that the person next to me should have given me the arm rest since I had a lap infant and was in the middle, but he didn't and I survived.
We need seats reserved for the obese. If you're over 225, you're required to reserve and pay for those (or first class).
Lap infants should not be allowed at all due to the safety issues.
They need to nurse on takeoff and landing so their ears don't hurt. Otherwise they'd scream.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We need to stop all this petty infighting and force airlines to step up.
I fly often and don't have an issue. Hell I flew with a lap infant in a middle seat last week and never crossed the line. I did think that the person next to me should have given me the arm rest since I had a lap infant and was in the middle, but he didn't and I survived.
We need seats reserved for the obese. If you're over 225, you're required to reserve and pay for those (or first class).
Lap infants should not be allowed at all due to the safety issues.
They need to nurse on takeoff and landing so their ears don't hurt. Otherwise they'd scream.
Anonymous wrote:It wouldn't solve everything, but in this case, why not have the aisle partner move into the middle seat? Then the non-partnered middle person would at least only be dealing with being squished from one side.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I've posted on this topic several times before about my coworker. We travel a lot for work. She's a bigger person (definitely in the obese category). Our company pays for our tickets, of course, and she will pay out of pocket for a second seat to have a buffer zone. The only time she doesn't do this is if we're in a two seat row and I'm in the seat next to her (upon my insistence as I don't mind some spillage; I grew up with an overweight sibling and parent so I'm used to it).
We flew 8 times in December alone and out of those eight times, she bought a second buffer seat 5 times. Out of those 5 extra seats that were purchased, do you know how many times that buffer seat wasn't taken from her? One. ONE time the airline did not tell her that the seat was needed due to an overbooked flight. And guess what? She doesn't get to say no when they ask to take the seat. The first time it happened she did say no and the flight attendant told her if she persisted in being a "problem" then she would have to notify the captain and she would be deplaned. The airlines have all the power.
There have been times when her buffer seat has been taken and given to another passenger and that person has complained about my coworker. I always speak up and let them know that the only reason they're on the flight is because the extra seat she paid for was taken from her and given to that person. That usually shuts them up pretty quickly.
Does my coworker get money back for the seat she purchased? Yes. Does she often get more than what she paid for the seat? Yes, sometimes, but I can guarantee you that she'd rather have the buffer seat than the money. You know, since she purchased it to begin with and all that.![]()
That's crazy and eye opening.
+1
kudos to you PP for supporting your coworker. please keep writing about this. I am a DCUM regular and haven’t seen this before.
+1
Wow - that is nuts that they won't let her use the buffer seat.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I would have been more polite about it, but I also would have been as firm as possible that I needed to be moved. GO get a flight attendant, and say, "Look, I don't want to make a big deal about this, but the people on either side of me are infringing on my seat. I paid for a seat - a full seat - and I need to be moved." And take it from there, staying firm, but polite. I also would have resisted being rebooked - I am not the one who created this issue, and one of them needs to be rebooked if that's the only solution.
Good luck with that. You can be polite all day long but airline customer service STINKS. You’ll be the one getting rebooked.
Rightly so. She's the one with the problem. When has air travel ever been pleasant?
Sorry, no. When not one, but two people are spilling into my seat, I *have* the problem, but I am not the one who *created* the problem. The burden of the remedy should fall on the one who caused the situation. [/quote
The situation creators worked with the system and paid for the right to pick their seats. The middle seat sucks no matter who is in the aisle and window seat. You get what you pay for.
Yes, *their* seats, you dimwit. Not a portion of the seat next to them.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I've posted on this topic several times before about my coworker. We travel a lot for work. She's a bigger person (definitely in the obese category). Our company pays for our tickets, of course, and she will pay out of pocket for a second seat to have a buffer zone. The only time she doesn't do this is if we're in a two seat row and I'm in the seat next to her (upon my insistence as I don't mind some spillage; I grew up with an overweight sibling and parent so I'm used to it).
We flew 8 times in December alone and out of those eight times, she bought a second buffer seat 5 times. Out of those 5 extra seats that were purchased, do you know how many times that buffer seat wasn't taken from her? One. ONE time the airline did not tell her that the seat was needed due to an overbooked flight. And guess what? She doesn't get to say no when they ask to take the seat. The first time it happened she did say no and the flight attendant told her if she persisted in being a "problem" then she would have to notify the captain and she would be deplaned. The airlines have all the power.
There have been times when her buffer seat has been taken and given to another passenger and that person has complained about my coworker. I always speak up and let them know that the only reason they're on the flight is because the extra seat she paid for was taken from her and given to that person. That usually shuts them up pretty quickly.
Does my coworker get money back for the seat she purchased? Yes. Does she often get more than what she paid for the seat? Yes, sometimes, but I can guarantee you that she'd rather have the buffer seat than the money. You know, since she purchased it to begin with and all that.![]()
That's crazy and eye opening.
+1
kudos to you PP for supporting your coworker. please keep writing about this. I am a DCUM regular and haven’t seen this before.
Anonymous wrote:I've posted on this topic several times before about my coworker. We travel a lot for work. She's a bigger person (definitely in the obese category). Our company pays for our tickets, of course, and she will pay out of pocket for a second seat to have a buffer zone. The only time she doesn't do this is if we're in a two seat row and I'm in the seat next to her (upon my insistence as I don't mind some spillage; I grew up with an overweight sibling and parent so I'm used to it).
We flew 8 times in December alone and out of those eight times, she bought a second buffer seat 5 times. Out of those 5 extra seats that were purchased, do you know how many times that buffer seat wasn't taken from her? One. ONE time the airline did not tell her that the seat was needed due to an overbooked flight. And guess what? She doesn't get to say no when they ask to take the seat. The first time it happened she did say no and the flight attendant told her if she persisted in being a "problem" then she would have to notify the captain and she would be deplaned. The airlines have all the power.
There have been times when her buffer seat has been taken and given to another passenger and that person has complained about my coworker. I always speak up and let them know that the only reason they're on the flight is because the extra seat she paid for was taken from her and given to that person. That usually shuts them up pretty quickly.
Does my coworker get money back for the seat she purchased? Yes. Does she often get more than what she paid for the seat? Yes, sometimes, but I can guarantee you that she'd rather have the buffer seat than the money. You know, since she purchased it to begin with and all that.![]()
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We need to stop all this petty infighting and force airlines to step up.
I fly often and don't have an issue. Hell I flew with a lap infant in a middle seat last week and never crossed the line. I did think that the person next to me should have given me the arm rest since I had a lap infant and was in the middle, but he didn't and I survived.
We need seats reserved for the obese. If you're over 225, you're required to reserve and pay for those (or first class).
Lap infants should not be allowed at all due to the safety issues.