[leapfrog0202]

You know what though? Even if he’d paid for 2 seats you don’t always get two seats. I have a co-worker that bought 2 seats on a flight to NJ for our corporate meeting and they used her 2nd seat for a standby passenger. She tried to do the right thing and the airline took the seat from her. She objected and said she’d paid for two seats and after booking online called the 800# and explained why she’d bought 2 seats.

There are lots of stories out there from people that have bought a 2nd seat and had the airline use it for standby people. So it could be that the guy did say something and got shafted out of his 2nd seat and his money.

[StolarStorm]

What should really bug you about this, is that the standby passenger was likely an employee. The gate agents will routinely violate policies to get a buddy on a packed flight.

Yes, the airlines suck. But they suck because the flying public refuses to pay more for quality. There have been efforts made to have better seats and so forth, and those efforts fail ... as people will still book the cheaper flight ... even if its only a 5 buck difference.

[pgkdan]

Happened to me this summer but judging from the stupid comments on this thread about the man’s size,,,and the even more stupid comment about his stench ( I suppose the poster Chet can smell photos through cyber space)I decided not to mention it.

[autumnraine]

If I purchased 2 seats, I’d drape a dang leg over it before they put someone else in it.

[jerri]

You know what though? Even if he’d paid for 2 seats you don’t always get two seats. I have a co-worker that bought 2 seats on a flight to NJ for our corporate meeting and they used her 2nd seat for a standby passenger. She tried to do the right thing and the airline took the seat from her. She objected and said she’d paid for two seats and after booking online called the 800# and explained why she’d bought 2 seats.

That would really piss me off if I paid for 2 seats and they took one.