Seat poacher

[DC3]

Spot a stranger on what you think is your seat? Double-check your own BP and the current row number first. If your seat is taken, kindly mention to the poacher that it's my seat, please, is their possibly a row in front or back? The day will come when I get temporarily stuck with this but so far it's always worked out neatly.

No, No, No. Best not to get directly involved. The day will come …….

Edit: Sorting out where pax should/ should not be seated is not our responsibility? The FAs know how to deal with feigned huffing and puffing

 

[p--and--t]

Doing the switch-a-loo? With you-know-who (Qantas) the flying Kangaroo

I can't help myself

 

[fly2earth]

I can't help myself

True that. Warrants the switch-a-roo just for the upgraded first class kanga-loos

 

[DC3]

I once poached an F loo as a J pax Qf A380.

Ah, so you thought that the F potty was going to be something to behold?

Well, with QF, it was no different to J, from memory. Certainly nothing to write home about. However, if it had been an EK A380, then it would have been worth the sneaky motion.

 

[MARTINE]

Ah, so you thought that the F potty was going to be something to behold?

Well, with QF, it was no different to J, from memory. Certainly nothing to write home about. However, if it had been an EK A380, then it would have been worth the sneaky motion.

Boom Boom

 

[elanshin]

Odd how the poacher tends to be found in a better seat/row than that which was allocated.

I had a seat downgrader in mine (although minor). My partner and I were enjoying ourselves a bit at QR J lounge at Changi so was late to board our QF flight. I'd select the centre 3E/F for myself and partner as it was her first business class flight ever (good thing too as she was overwhelmed with all the buttons and features).

Stopped at the seat and found someone in it, was extremely confused - turned out he was at 2A which is most certainly a much better seat on the QF 332's than 3E. He'd actually started fully getting comfortable in the seat blankets mattress and all.

If I wasn't travelling with my partner I would've gladly taken his 2A. Other confusing part was I'm almost certain he was an upgrade as a WP (saw the bag tag) as I had been staring at the seatmaps like a hawk and saw what was available at what times. Usually when you get upgrades you're generally double checking everything since it's not what you preselected and booked.

 

[tdimdad]

No, No, No. Best not to get directly involved. The day will come …….
Edit: Sorting out where pax should/ should not be seated is not our responsibility? The FAs know how to deal with feigned huffing and puffing

This naturally leads to the question of what's been the worst you've come across or seen with seat poachers? If I continued trying myself, what to expect at the less-desirable end?

 

[Seat0B]

This naturally leads to the question of what's been the worst you've come across or seen with seat poachers? If I continued trying myself, what to expect at the less-desirable end?

So far I’ve been very lucky. I am always nice about it and assume it’s just a mix up even when it clearly isn’t - which really worked for me when it was my mix up. So far everyone poaching my seat has just moved. I have had to ask FA to get them to also move their luggage from the overhead lockers though.

 

[Quickstatus]

F potty was going to be something to behold?

No. I already knew it was Ho hum from previous non poaching visits. But was just to see whether I could.

 

[p--and--t]

This naturally leads to the question of what's been the worst you've come across or seen with seat poachers? If I continued trying myself, what to expect at the less-desirable end?

The one who said "I'm here now with my stuff, they're all the same, sit somewhere else". The FA agreed with me that no they are not all the same and you sit where the boarding pass says.

 

[burmans]

The one who said "I'm here now with my stuff, they're all the same, sit somewhere else". The FA agreed with me that no they are not all the same and you sit where the boarding pass says.

Surely the answer to the all the same is ‘well if you think they are all the same you won’t mind moving, I don’t and that’s why I reserved that seat’!

 

[Forg]

I can see why, if someone actually DOES think they’re all the same (eg. a thin person of sub-average stature who cares not for the window or potty access), the same someone might decide “meh I’ll sit here”. But yeah regardless of whether they believe it or not, it’s worth asking the FA ‘cos not only will they take care of it you’re also definitely not “potentially in the wrong until proven otherwise” (if two people are having an argument you’re always wondering if the person in the right is just one of those people who’s always in arguments regardless of right or wrong).

There are safety/security reasons that flight staff should know who’s sitting where, aren’t there?

 

[KSC]

Is Aircraft toilet poaching off topic?

I once poached an F loo as a J pax Qf A380.

Nothing is off limits.

Real class act will be travelling in F and taking advantage of your priority boarding to-do a number 2 in Y.
Happy Monday folk.

 

[DC3]

Nothing is off limits …. do a number 2 in Y.

Hand basin is off limits?

 

[KSC]

Hand basin is off limits?

As long as you are willing to deal with the fallout and new AFF basin usage threads.

 

[Forg]

As long as you are willing to deal with the fallout and new AFF basin usage threads.

I dread to think what the FA’s with the airline-branded foot-removal machetes noted in the Feet On The Bulkheads thread would do with the posterior of the person who pooped in the basin …

 

[fly2earth]

I dread to think what the FA’s with the airline-branded foot-removal machetes noted in the Feet On The Bulkheads thread would do with the posterior of the person who pooped in the basin …

Qantas should have a Switch-A-Loo promotion given the popularity of this thread.
Titled: Time to do the switch-a-LOO back to the SUPERIOR Kanga-LOO!

 

[ayebee]

Only just found this thread...

I was guilty once of taking the wrong seat. I had connection in Abu Dhabi from Brussels to Melbourne, and on boarding the second flight when the body & brain would have preferred being asleep, had in mind my seat number from first flight . All resolved very politely.

Have been on the other side several times,. Several times have had late upgrades on QF Pacific flights where I scored the last seat in business, only to find someone in the seat. Each time said person scurried off towards the rear without any arguments. Maybe off duty staff ??

My favourite was when there was a real stuff up on J seat allocations which the crew resolved by plonking me in 1A from MEL to LHR. That was a quite a while back and I doubt it would happen today.

 

[DC3]

I dread to think what the FA’s with the airline-branded foot-removal machetes noted in the Feet On The Bulkheads thread would do with the posterior of the person who pooped in the basin …

aka The Phantom coughper, masquerading as a poacher

 

[KSC]

This thread has gone to $hit