@dfwskier wrote: Please take your click bait elsewhere. But I was here first! You should be the one to go!
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11-26-2018
10:10 AM
11-26-2018
10:10 AM
@dfwskier that is helpful to know. But in your hypothetical, what if I told the FA it was my seat? Would you stamp your foot and say, “but I was here first?” And if I said, “no I was here first,” what developments could we expect? I’m legitimately curious what would happen. Someone suggested a comparison to a movie theater and there I think if someone got up and left their seat, and then I took it, and they came back with an attendant to oust me, I might reasonably suggest that I had been there first, as demonstrated by my butt in the seat and theirs standing in the aisle.
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When that dog vacated its carrier bag, I’d contend that you could have taken its place, if you were so inclined and proportioned. Assuming of course that the music had stopped.
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Civilization has been assigning seats for some time. To me that’s civilized. Are you sure Southwest’s seating strategy is grounded in some great civility? Not sure I see it. If we’re playing musical chairs on the plane, then let’s play!
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How would I feel? Well, I wouldn’t care for it. But then I don’t care for free-for-all seating either. And aisle seats are the worst since you have to get up the most for the window and center seats to go to the bathroom. I’m not sure why you’re advising against it though. Do you think I might annoy someone? Or do you think that policy is such that people can actually reserve their seat at some point, and then hold it for the duration of the flight? I see no sign that is the case, but maybe I’ve missed something. Southwests policy seems to leave seat negotiation entirely to customers. For example, from what I’ve read it’s discouraged but not prohibited to attempt to save a seat for someone who is not in that seat. Seems like swapping seats while a prior occupant leaves it empty might fall into the same class of “please no, but OK if you really want to?”
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I’m thinking of waiting for someone in exit row to get up and then go take that open seat. Policy indicates there are no seat assignments and I’ve been directed to take any open seat. If it’s open...
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