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I ask people to switch seats with me all the darn time. I've only been told no once. I don't care what the other passengers think. I prefer to sit with my husband as we have a toddler. The stupid airlines should automatically seat us together.
You have a right to sit together and most times other people dont mind.
It needs to be a reasonable exchange, same for same, don't ask me to switch my aisle for a middle seat as one very nice couple asked me to do at the beginning of a 14 hour flight to Japan. When I said "Sorry, no" I could see in their facial reactions they never expected that answer, they just assumed...
I booked that seat for a reason months before that flight, if you book at the last minute & get less than ideal seats don't expect others to adjust downward for you. They were finally able to sit together by giving up their aisle seat to someone.
Its not presumptuous to ask. IMO, though, its not rude for seat holders to decline. I would always move so that a parent could sit next to a child. I don't find a husband sitting next to his wife as nearly as compelling. They can tolerate a few hours of separation.
That's where you're wrong . I only ask to prefer to sit with my husband so we can be with our child. Child. How's that hard for you to understand?
don't ask me to switch my aisle for a middle seat as one very nice couple asked me to do at the beginning of a 14 hour flight to Japan. When I said "Sorry, no" I could see in their facial reactions they never expected that answer, they just assumed...
For a 14 hour flight that wouldn't only be a "no", but a "hell no!". A middle seat on a trans-ocean flight is torturous.
Seat change for an equivalent change is not a problem But, no people, don't even ask if that's the trade you expect - middle for aisle.
I just remembered one time when - we thought - everyone had boarded, and in came 3, an older man and a young couple (they were family). The older man told the flight attendant that they "were told they could sit together", which I didn't believe one damn bit. But the attendant tried to be accommodating, and she asked two guys sitting in a row with one empty seat if they would move. Both did but the one in the aisle seat got visibly disgruntled, and I didn't blame him. Me, I won't give my aisle seat to anyone, although I will trade to a different aisle seat.
That's where you're wrong . I only ask to prefer to sit with my husband so we can be with our child. Child. How's that hard for you to understand?
Entitled much
I'm sure if you look hard enough, don't be cheap and spend the money, you can all sit together and live happily ever after. But it's not your RIGHT to sit together. If you actually think you would crumble due to a few hours of seperation, you're in bad shape.
Funny story...once I was on a return flight from Spain and the young lady sitting next to me kept interacting with a young man in another seat and it was clear they were together. (Actually, they were kind of annoying with all the back and forth.) I asked her why she didn’t just ask me to exchange seats so that they could be together for the flight, but she said, “We’re going to be together for a long time in the US, so, no thanks”. LOL. We had a great time talking about their extreme adventure getaway to the western US.
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