Do you leave a seat between you and partner on plane?

beedeedee

If I'm on a long haul flight, I always ask at check-in if the seat next to me can be "blocked" as I'm a female traveling alone.......don't usually have a problem.

whatyadoinsucka

beedeedee wrote: »

If I'm on a long haul flight, I always ask at check-in if the seat next to me can be "blocked" as I'm a female traveling alone.......don't usually have a problem.

that is an embarrassment to singles travelling.

i wouldn't want to know what you tell the receptionist at your hotel

Tojo_Ralph

pennylane99 wrote: »

I know a group of guys that deliberately choose the middle seats if they see that window and aisles have been booked. And they wont offer to swap...lol

Are you saying that you know a whole group of men who will select and suffer sitting in a middle seat just on the off chance that they get to sit between a couple?

You either know some very, very strange individuals or I am missing something?

dickydonkin

Tojo_Ralph wrote: »

Are you saying that you know a whole group of men who will select and suffer sitting in a middle seat just on the off chance that they get to sit between a couple?

You either know some very, very strange individuals or I am missing something?

And it is very likely due to their 'mass' that 'lardy couples' may have left a middle seat to allow surplus blubber to encroach into the aforementioned vacant void.

So anyone who decides to take the middle seat in such circumstances may be attacked from both sides in a pincer movement of excess body.

Everyone to their own I suppose:(!

bobajob_1966

beedeedee wrote: »

If I'm on a long haul flight, I always ask at check-in if the seat next to me can be "blocked" as I'm a female traveling alone.......don't usually have a problem.

Does being female make you incapable of having someone near you?

ferf1223

pennylane99 wrote: »

I know a group of guys that deliberately choose the middle seats if they see that window and aisles have been booked. And they wont offer to swap...lol

I do not know these guys, but know guys I could see doing this...the concept is amusing to me.

As for being a solo female traveller requesting that a seat is blocked? I could never imagine asking for such a thing...and really have no idea why they would honour a request like that?

GemmaE

we do, but only because DD is just under 2 and anyone sitting with/ near us would likley be attacked by her wanting to read a book or to share their snacks! Would prefer to be able to book her a seat though as hate the thought of being the focus of someones annoyance through baby antics!

HedgeHunter

I remember flying on September the 11th 2002, about 10 of us had a entire 737.

Beetlemama

HedgeHunter wrote: »

I remember flying on September the 11th 2002, about 10 of us had a entire 737.

That made me feel really sad


I too have had a whole row to sleep on before when coming home from America, me and another guy that was also on his own grabbed a center row each and sprawled out, no one else was interested in moving. I woke up and everyone else was fast asleep, the whole plane, so I went for a walk and found the crew in their little space, whispering quietly trying not to wake us all up, and they made me a mug of their own coffee, not a funny little airline cup. It's one of my happy memories from my travel files. Nice people.

I'd never take the chance when travelling with DH that we might not get to sit together, that would ruin our flight....having said that, now we are three not two, we'd take up the whole row by the window anyway so there'd be no question of an empty seat.

peachyprice

beedeedee wrote: »

If I'm on a long haul flight, I always ask at check-in if the seat next to me can be "blocked" as I'm a female traveling alone.......don't usually have a problem.

My mum flies regularly from Australia to the UK, usually alone. She always flies with Emirates and they do this automatically for all females travelling alone where possible, if the flight is full they will always put another female beside a lone one.

Only once did she get a man, they were so embarrassed they moved her to business.

She finds it quite amusing and old fashioned.