![]() If you want to sit with your husband, you are not going to be able to sit with him unless you can offer a better seat swap. I personally take the first position, though. The rationale for the second position is that if you do not want the upgrade, it should go to the next eligible passenger, not the person in economy class whose seat you want. Position Two: If you are upgraded, you cannot just give your seat away to another person when there is a long list of eligible passengers waiting for a premium cabin seat.Position One: The seat is mine and I can swap it with another passenger as I see fit. ![]() While the rules for seat swapping are generally not spelled out, generally there are two ways to approach this: ![]() But another flight attendant quickly interrupted, denying the request and explaining it was against policy. She asked one of the flight attendants, who told her she was welcome to make the swap. She wanted to go to the man sitting next to her husband and ask if he was willing to swap seats with her (I think that is the kind of seat swap most of us would never turn down, especially if traveling solo). To recap the context, a woman was seated in first class and wanted to sit with her husband, who was seated in economy class. Seat Swapping Onboard: Can A First Class Passenger “Give Away” Her Seat? While the context of that story was the behavior of the flight attendants, here I want to explore the rules and etiquette surrounding seat swapping onboard. Earlier today I wrote about an incident that occurred onboard an American Eagle flight in which two flight attendants bickered over whether a first class passenger could swap seats with a man in economy class so that she could sit with her husband.
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