Comments on: Travel Complaint and Flight Problems? http://ufinance.net/2007/03/31/travel-complaint-and-flight-problems/ Just another Webaplex.com Corporate Site weblog Sun, 18 Jul 2010 05:50:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: BillyOceansEleven http://ufinance.net/2007/03/31/travel-complaint-and-flight-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-354 BillyOceansEleven Sun, 01 Apr 2007 05:50:02 +0000 http://finance.webaplex.com/03/travel-complaint-and-flight-problems/#comment-354 There was an interesting article in the WSJ about airline complaints and how most people find the responses they receive (if any) to be less than expected. I'm not sure there is much the airline can do in this instance. As a big guy myself (6'0", 250 lbs), I've had the unfortunate experience of being seated in a middle seat between two guys larger than me. It was even worse because neither guy would give up the armrest, so I spent the entire flight with my arms squished up in front of me. However, the airline is only selling you passage and doesn't make any guarantee that you will be comfortable. My question would be how did you end up with a middle seat if you booked six months in advance? At that point there should have been an aisle or window seat available you could have reserved. Maybe you wanted to be next to your friends, but that isn't worth being in a middle to me. When my wife and I travel, we have an understanding that we sit in the same row, she gets window, I get aisle, and some other poor bastard gets the middle seat in between. There was an interesting article in the WSJ about airline complaints and how most people find the responses they receive (if any) to be less than expected.

I’m not sure there is much the airline can do in this instance. As a big guy myself (6’0″, 250 lbs), I’ve had the unfortunate experience of being seated in a middle seat between two guys larger than me. It was even worse because neither guy would give up the armrest, so I spent the entire flight with my arms squished up in front of me. However, the airline is only selling you passage and doesn’t make any guarantee that you will be comfortable.

My question would be how did you end up with a middle seat if you booked six months in advance? At that point there should have been an aisle or window seat available you could have reserved. Maybe you wanted to be next to your friends, but that isn’t worth being in a middle to me. When my wife and I travel, we have an understanding that we sit in the same row, she gets window, I get aisle, and some other poor bastard gets the middle seat in between.

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