Has someone stole your airplane seat?

[Vipers]

Rude-boy said:

Re the poster who mentioned using your bathroom scales - hotels don't tend to have them as a rule so on the way back it's a pita or a gamble. I said £5 for our scales, honestly I think that they were more like £2.99.

I mentioned bathroom scales, your right about hotels, I was thinking when we travel to USA or Australia and stay with relations.

[KFC]

had ham said:

I travel the Chicago/Indy 'hop' fairly regularly (next time just after Easter), and I can't remember the last time I didn't see a serviceman get bumped up front - sometimes 2 or 3 on a flight.

I think it's great - and I've also seen people up front actively give up thier seats to a serviceman. It's only 45 mins or so, but it's a great gesture.

Why would they be any more deserving of the gesture than say a nurse, or a fireman, or someone working 2 minimum wage jobs to feed his family? I just don't get the whole 'military heroes' thing the USA has going.

I definitely wouldn't give someone in the american military my seat. I wouldn't give them anything at all.

[King Herald]

I just flew from New Orleans, to Dallas and thence to Philippines, via Doha. After 15 painful, cramped, boring hours on the long leg, and several drinks, I'm in Doha waiting to board for the second Second leg. I was told at the gate they had to re-issue my boarding pass as my seat had been changed. Oh jeeez......

I thought the worst briefly, then a slight flickering of hope, a mere hint of a hope, and then YES, you beauty, "You've been upgraded to Business Class sir" for the ten hour flight into the Philippines.

Second time in the last four flights with Qatar. I assume it is because the plane is jacked full of Filipinos returning home, they want to squeeze as many in as possible, and I am a Silver frequent flyer with them.

[BrabusMog]

King Herald said:

I just flew from New Orleans, to Dallas and thence to Philippines, via Doha. After 15 painful, cramped, boring hours on the long leg, and several drinks, I'm in Doha waiting to board for the second Second leg. I was told at the gate they had to re-issue my boarding pass as my seat had been changed. Oh jeeez......

I thought the worst briefly, then a slight flickering of hope, a mere hint of a hope, and then YES, you beauty, "You've been upgraded to Business Class sir" for the ten hour flight into the Philippines.

Second time in the last four flights with Qatar. I assume it is because the plane is jacked full of Filipinos returning home, they want to squeeze as many in as possible, and I am a Silver frequent flyer with them.

Jackpot!!

I'm going to Vegas for a stag do soon, 6 of us in business, first time I've ever paid for it myself!

[mph1977]

buggalugs said:

I had a seat facing the bulkhead on an Aeroflot flight back from Moscow once, right infront of the movie screen, room to stretch out etc.

I got asked if I wouldn't mind switching with a lady who came on with a baby... course not... ended up sat in the middle of a pissed up Engligh girls hockey team, great British Bulldogs the lot of them, and very loud, thankfully they mostly ignored me while I hid behind my book!!

surely this post alone has the makings of a PH epic thread ( albeit in a 13th Duke of Wybourne manner )

Edited by mph1977 on Friday 10th April 12:59

[anonymous-user]

KFC said:

had ham said:

I travel the Chicago/Indy 'hop' fairly regularly (next time just after Easter), and I can't remember the last time I didn't see a serviceman get bumped up front - sometimes 2 or 3 on a flight.

I think it's great - and I've also seen people up front actively give up thier seats to a serviceman. It's only 45 mins or so, but it's a great gesture.

Why would they be any more deserving of the gesture than say a nurse, or a fireman, or someone working 2 minimum wage jobs to feed his family? I just don't get the whole 'military heroes' thing the USA has going.

I definitely wouldn't give someone in the american military my seat. I wouldn't give them anything at all.

That's kind of what I was trying to say when i replied to Had Ham a while ago but your response was a lot more to the point!

I don't get it either. It's a job and they get paid for their work like anyone else.

It's a job they chose to do of their own free will, much like I chose to work in the Property business.

I wouldn't be disrespectful towards them the same as I wouldn't be disrespectful to anyone in any job, but I don't know where the whooping, cheering and flag waving comes from.

[King Herald]

KFC said:

had ham said:

I travel the Chicago/Indy 'hop' fairly regularly (next time just after Easter), and I can't remember the last time I didn't see a serviceman get bumped up front - sometimes 2 or 3 on a flight.

I think it's great - and I've also seen people up front actively give up thier seats to a serviceman. It's only 45 mins or so, but it's a great gesture.

Why would they be any more deserving of the gesture than say a nurse, or a fireman, or someone working 2 minimum wage jobs to feed his family? I just don't get the whole 'military heroes' thing the USA has going.

I think it is abject embarrassment and regret for the way soldiers were treated after Vietnam.

[mph1977]

King Herald said:

KFC said:

had ham said:

I travel the Chicago/Indy 'hop' fairly regularly (next time just after Easter), and I can't remember the last time I didn't see a serviceman get bumped up front - sometimes 2 or 3 on a flight.

I think it's great - and I've also seen people up front actively give up thier seats to a serviceman. It's only 45 mins or so, but it's a great gesture.

Why would they be any more deserving of the gesture than say a nurse, or a fireman, or someone working 2 minimum wage jobs to feed his family? I just don't get the whole 'military heroes' thing the USA has going.

I think it is abject embarrassment and regret for the way soldiers were treated after Vietnam.

that's probably got a fair bit to do with it ...

[Matt Harper]

I do give up my seat up front to deployed military personnel from time to time, as already confessed to.

I don't care to discuss my motivation to do so - it's private to me. Nor do I criticize those who don't do it.

It has nothing whatsoever to do with patriotism, jingoism, flag-waving or war-mongery in my case.

[KFC]

Matt Harper said:

I do give up my seat up front to deployed military personnel from time to time, as already confessed to.

I don't care to discuss my motivation to do so - it's private to me. Nor do I criticize those who don't do it.

It has nothing whatsoever to do with patriotism, jingoism, flag-waving or war-mongery in my case.

I guess for a lot of people they might have personal reasons; but the fact its military they want to reward is far easier to notice. I might have a thing for helping firemen as one saved my granny... but they aren't going to be so obvious going through checkin i suppose

[gf15]

Mrs GF15 and I were flying to SFO on BA, I was in a middle seat with Sue beside me in an aisle seat. A young lady (20 ish) was crying her eyes out as she was not seated beside her boyfriend, who was a couple of rows ahead. Several passengers looked worried (probably at the thought of listening to 9 hours of sobs and sniffles). CC arrived, a couple of people offered to move around to enable said young lady to be re-united with her boyfriend. I ended up beside Sue, but just across the aisle. Everyone happy, especially when I received 5000 extra Avios points out of the blue.

[Vipers]

gf15 said:

Mrs GF15 and I were flying to SFO on BA, I was in a middle seat with Sue beside me in an aisle seat. A young lady (20 ish) was crying her eyes out as she was not seated beside her boyfriend, who was a couple of rows ahead. Several passengers looked worried (probably at the thought of listening to 9 hours of sobs and sniffles). CC arrived, a couple of people offered to move around to enable said young lady to be re-united with her boyfriend. I ended up beside Sue, but just across the aisle. Everyone happy, especially when I received 5000 extra Avios points out of the blue.

I once swapped seats so the husband of the lady next to me could sit with her on a flight from London to Singapore, on arrival on Singapore, the stewardess gave me a bottle of champainge for swapping seats.

The same flight, (London Heathrow to Singapore), by the way, was delayed 24 hours, so every passenger was given a letter the following day saying, "Food and drinks all day are free, and you have a ticket to anywhere you choose which BA serve valid for a year", how good was that.

Be about 30 years ago now. The couple next to me was from NZ, very chuffed at another freebe to the UK. Me, well so busy that year working offshore, didnt get time to use it.

[Dr Jekyll]

I was travelling on Virgin once on the upper deck of a 747 with 2 + 2 seating. An stunning looking girl sat next to me and then realised her boyfriend was in the row behind. The FA was happy to let her swap places with the bloke sitting next to the boyfriend but since the two would have checked in together why on earth did the check in clerk split them up?

I did wonder if one or other pissed off the check in clerk who decided to take revenge.

[kev1974]

Dr Jekyll said:

I was travelling on Virgin once on the upper deck of a 747 with 2 + 2 seating. An stunning looking girl sat next to me and then realised her boyfriend was in the row behind. The FA was happy to let her swap places with the bloke sitting next to the boyfriend but since the two would have checked in together why on earth did the check in clerk split them up?

I did wonder if one or other pissed off the check in clerk who decided to take revenge.

They probably just checked in after all the pairs of seats had already been taken? Lots of people still don't check in until they arrive at the airport, or they were on connecting flights and got delayed, or were on standby tickets or something like that.

[Dr Jekyll]

kev1974 said:

They probably just checked in after all the pairs of seats had already been taken? Lots of people still don't check in until they arrive at the airport, or they were on connecting flights and got delayed, or were on standby tickets or something like that.

Possibly but a bit of a coincidence that one would have 61B and the other 62A, that's why I reckon they did check in together. (Not sure they were the exact seat numbers but that was the layout).

[Vipers]

kapiteinlangzaam said:

. Once all boarded row 2 (with the travel cot) was occupied by a single mid-50s German woman who didnt want to swap seats.

Fannies.

So did she move?

[Itsallicanafford]

I once found a guy in my seat in the open isle by the door. I pointed this out to him and he got up, he must have been 6 foot 8 and a good foot taller than me. No arguments, I just swapped seats with him, the thought of him folding himself into an economy seat in a standard isle was too much for a long haul flight.

[King Herald]

Itsallicanafford said:

I once found a guy in my seat in the open isle by the door. I pointed this out to him and he got up, he must have been 6 foot 8 and a good foot taller than me. No arguments, I just swapped seats with him, the thought of him folding himself into an economy seat in a standard isle was too much for a long haul flight.

I used to work with a guy from Tasmania, who was 6'8" tall. he had to fly cattle class with us when we went to work offshore, never worked out how the hell he did it.

He also had to sleep in the same size bunks we did, on the ship, which were only just long enough to comfortably take my own 5'10" chassis.

[Vipers]

anonymous said:

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Key word "Booked"

[littlebasher]

Not a seat, but this miserable bd bloke who boarded the plane after everyone else was struggling to find space in the overhead lockers for his stuff. He eventually ended up trying the locker above me (about 5 or 6 rows from where he was sat) and decided to remove my laptop bag / suit jacket in favour of his own luggage!