BA bullying passengers?

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  • Charles-P
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    StephenLondon – had the very same thing last year on an Etihad flight to Abu Dhabi where a family all wanted to sit together in Business and were very annoyed when people, myself included, refused to move to accommodate them. When I pointed out I was sitting next to a colleague and we had chosen these seats so we could work on the flight I was told I was “up myself” and that “my husband will soon move you”.

    I eagerly awaited said husband but he failed to make an appearance 🙂


    MartynSinclair
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    On a European shorthaul flight, I have absolutely zero problem when asked to swap seats…. as long as its aisle to aisle or window to window – will NEVER swop for a middle seat…

    A longhaul is very different – most regular passengers do have favourite seats, which are booked in advance. If a non status pax wants a certain seat, it can be booked, for a fee!!! If its that important to someone, and they don’t pay – then tough!

    When I am asked to move on a longhaul that’s very different and I don’t feel I need to justify why I wont move.

    When asked, I will very very politely return the question:

    “are you asking me to move or telling me to move”, no stupid grin, no smirk, just a direct question….

    There is generally never a follow up request.

    As a side issue, I was on a flight back from Frankfurt, was running about 90 minutes late and it parked on the stands needing a bus transfer to T5.

    I was in row 6, jumped up to get on the first bus and the senior cabin attendant said:

    “Sir, would you mind waiting for the second bus as the first bus is only for club passengers?”. I replied, very politely, again, with no silly grin or smirk

    “as you’ve asked the question my answer is, yes I do mind” – to which I just walked down the steps on got on the bus….

    …much to the annoyance of the passengers in row 7, who were all stopped from doing the same thing….


    MrMichael
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    To take a perhaps controversial view, an airline like any business must satisfy it’s most valuable and profitable customers first. For Nigel this was darn annoying, but ultimately a bigger silverback turned up and wanted 1k so smaller silverback was shifted. Annoying yes, infuriating yes, and BA should perhaps send you a token gift of apology, but ultimately if I was running BA, I would have been pretty cross if this had not happened and we lost a major customer. Also worth remembering that major customer may have been a BA shareholder, may have been CEO of a company that buys a lot of seats from BA for its staff. What could the cost of not complying have been, we, Nigel and BA may never know.


    AnthonyDunn
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    @ IanMcIntosh – 16/06/2014 09:00 GMT

    Actually, I can deny that it is Lord Browne about who I am writing – I have never met him so have no idea how he conducts himself at check-in.

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