Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:There was a guy on my last flight who was in the emergency row with a very religious couple who had a lap baby. He claimed he didn't want to sit next to a baby, but the vibe was really that he didn't want to be near Jewish people either. It started getting loud so I told the flight attendant I love babies and would be happy to switch with the man from my aisle seat if that would help.
He agreed and I whispered to the couple that I was jewish too, and spent a three hour flight with extra leg room, a window seat and playing patty cake with a cute baby.
Lap babies (and young children) aren't allowed to sit in the exit row, so this makes no sense.
I agree that doesn’t make sense. I don’t think young children were allowed to sit in the exit row either.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Flying back to DC a week ago we had our flight canceled because of the storm. They rebooked us through a different city, but put us in center seats all over the airplane. We had previously paid to all sit together but we had to take the rebooked flight or stay overseas until after the storm. There were no other seats or flights. I have two small kids, 5 and 8 yo. It was a a 5 hour long international flight. The gate agent said she had no way of seating us together so we'd have to ask on the plane.
What exactly should I have done differently?
Nothing, some times you can't get your way.
Absolutely nothing other than suck it up and let the flight depart on time. If you’re not capable of that, then you’ll need to rebook a different flight.
I was coming back from Paris w/ 3 of my kids. We were in business. Flight cancelled and we were put on a flight where all that was left were random middle coach seats. To make it worse, we were about 40 minutes into the flight and they announced they did not have catering (other than beverages) for coach. Was it fairly miserable? Yes. Did we survive? Yes. Unless you’re flying private, you need to roll w/ the punches. I never would have thought about guilt tripping someone to switch seats. If your child is old enough to be at school without you, they’re old enough to fly not seated next to you. I understand there are special circumstances, but then you just suck it up and rebook later. One of my children is special needs, so if we ever get bumped with her, we have to decline the rebooking.
Anonymous wrote:Why so angry? Just say 'no thanks' people can ask and you can decline.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Flying back to DC a week ago we had our flight canceled because of the storm. They rebooked us through a different city, but put us in center seats all over the airplane. We had previously paid to all sit together but we had to take the rebooked flight or stay overseas until after the storm. There were no other seats or flights. I have two small kids, 5 and 8 yo. It was a a 5 hour long international flight. The gate agent said she had no way of seating us together so we'd have to ask on the plane.
What exactly should I have done differently?
Nothing, some times you can't get your way.
Anonymous wrote:People who ask to switch seats to sit next to their partner/spouse/other adult?
Get the F out of here. Happened to me once on an international flight in first class. I carefully select my seat and yes, some of the seats in first class are a lot nosier. I need to sleep and I don't want to be near the galley. It's awesome you are so in love you want to sit together, but also not my problem. In my case, the guy asked and the woman looked embarrassed. And yes, I said no.
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.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Flying back to DC a week ago we had our flight canceled because of the storm. They rebooked us through a different city, but put us in center seats all over the airplane. We had previously paid to all sit together but we had to take the rebooked flight or stay overseas until after the storm. There were no other seats or flights. I have two small kids, 5 and 8 yo. It was a a 5 hour long international flight. The gate agent said she had no way of seating us together so we'd have to ask on the plane.
What exactly should I have done differently?
Sounds like the gate agent just didn't want to deal with it. They absolutely can switch seats around and try to accommodate families or at least try to get you as close as possible - I see them do it all the time.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote: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.
Anonymous wrote: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.
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.
Anonymous wrote:FWIW Congress gave DOT explicit authority to propose a rule prohibiting airlines from charging parents extra to set next to their under 10 year olds. Hopefully this shouldn't be as much of a problem soon.