Plane seat drama

I didn't think the overbooking happened on every airline, just the bigger ones.

How would that work at the small airports with the cheap airlines?

Many of the routes only have flights going out a couple of times a week.. if it was overbooked and not enough seats were available it would be absolute carnage.

No, OP. You were describing using the seats collectively. So an extra seat for DH, or an extra seat for me. Not an extra seat for I.

You've tried to correct the poster (incorrectly!) If we’re being pedantic, your opening sentence is also incorrect. It should be clear to you, using your rule that you tried to explain to the previous poster. I booked 4 tickets for DH, 2DS and I doesn’t make sense.

I booked tickets for I is incorrect. I booked 4 tickets for DH, 2DS and me. I booked a ticket for me is correct.

The difference would be that they wouldn't have the extra space, have you never had an empty seat next to you on a plane?
Its great

@itstoohotnow - grammatically you're incorrect!

I think you've understood part of a rule but applied it to a different sentence construction. Try removing the other person from the sentence:
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'The seat next to DH and I' *

You would not say 'The seat next to I', you would say 'the seat next to me.' Add DH back in and it's 'the seat next to DH and me.'

(I changed 'between' to 'next to' just because you can't have a seat between one person, but the sentence structure is the same.)

Why did you want a seat between you and your dh? Of course it’s your seat, you had paid for it, but what difference would it have made for you to let them have it?
I think the entitlement and rudeness of the couple with the child was wrong, but I’m confused why you needed the seat? Was it for comfort?

Steward saying her husband was a no-show so it was for the airline to reallocate. We were an hour late taking off as we missed our slot and lots of angry pissed off people

This was the scenario I wondered about and I think the situation could have gone either way for the op.

It would be:
There was a spare seat beside me
There was a spare seat beside I
Generally it’s I if you are doing the action so “DH & I went to the cinema” but in this case it’s the seat that was “being” something so you’d use me. I don’t think it sounds that wrong though as people do tend to use them interchangeably now.
Well done sticking to your guns on the seat. That was so rude of them.

I think in this situation I would have given them the seat but I would have shamed their attitude. Something along the lines:

"This is a seat that I have paid for. You have been rude and entitled and have not asked politely in any way. I will give up this seat for the benefit of your child because I am bigger person but I suggest that next time you find yourself in this situation then you ask nicely in the first place and you won't have an entire plane of people judge you for you attitude".

1. Calling you a fat bitch is completely unacceptable obviously - after that I would not have been disposed to give them a seat!

1. Asking for £30, I find that a bit cringe for some reason. I know you paid it but it just feels a bit weird to ask for a random contribution. I think I'd either just offer it or not.

1. It's "Between DH and me" because prepositions are generally followed by an objective pronoun rather than a subjective one. Your explanation is wrong because the "I had the seat" is using the subject of the verb.

The sentence you quoted was completely different. "I eat an orange" is fine. That doesn't mean that "The orange eat I" is correct.

Anyhoo all this arguing over the middle seat is by the by. The other couple didn't ask for the middle seat between OP and DH. Whether it had been released or not - and it seems fairly clear to me that it hadn't been - DS's seat was still DS's.

Wow! The entitlement of some people is off the scale. The spare seat was an occupied seat, an aisle and an occupied seat away from them, yet they had the temerity to be so overbearing and demanding that they called someone sitting 4 seats away from them a ‘fat bitch’. The air stewardess should have threatened to remove them from the flight for being disruptive.

The son had been checked-in on-line prior to flight closure.

If you look back upthread the OP states she discussed all this with the airline and they seem to have okayed everything that went on.

i have traveled tons of times with my babies and a 2 hour flight w a baby on your lap is really not such a hardship. If they wanted 3 seats, they should have booked another seat. I had chunky DS on my lap for 2 hours when he was 1 year and 11 months and we survived 😂 but I wanted to save the money on the extra seat.
sorry they were rude to you OP.

If you're a larger person, isn’t it the done thing to buy an extra seat for comfort reasons.

Another no from me. Good for you :-)

This! I would perhaps have been more accommodating if they had been polite.
That kid has no hope with potty mouth parents.

@Peony15 I book an extra seat (because I am fat) and pay for it. So it shouldn't be given away! I've only done it with easyJet, maybe different on other airlines?

No, demanding the seat is embarrassing. Asking to reimbursed is completely reasonable. Why should the OP be out of pocket?

That’s not how airline seats work. If your son hasn’t checked into the flight by the time check in closes, then he looses the seat and the airline can and will re sell it or put standbys into it.

No it's me. Imagine if it was a we or us situation. You wouldn't say between him and we. But really that is quite beside the point of the thread and I'm going to go away now.

Agreed..

I still think what’s being missed by some who think the OP was being petty is this isn’t just the common or garden case of the OP being asked to swop out of a seat they chose to sit in to move to another one.

What was happening here was that they were actually being asked to give up entirely one of four seats they had paid for and which the airline agreed they could still use.

😣

On every airline seat thread I have read, countless posters state people who have paid for their seats should ask for payment when faced with demanding CF"s demanding their seats. Yet now the op has actually done this it's frowned upon

Lots of forums with instructions too so I'm surprised at all the airport staff on here who are not familiar with this

TBF to staff, former and current, there are lots of differences in policy and differences in procedures between all the various airlines and pretty much all the airports….

You can definitely book a spare seat. I’ve done this for baby who needs to go in lap. You have to put the passenger name as EXTRA INFANT SEAT.