Seat selection on Hawaii flights has evolved from a standard convenience into the airlines’ most important profit center other than the flight itself.
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Seat selection on Hawaii flights has evolved from a standard convenience into the airlines’ most important profit center other than the flight itself.
On our last flight to Maui (not literally our last)(well, maybe so, if attitudes don’t improve) we paid a premium for exit row seats on Alaska. The exit row in front of us was empty. At take-off a couple jumped seats from economy to that exit row. Minutes later the flight attendant stopped to look at them and gently
asked for their boarding passes. “You have move,” she said after they deferred. “People pay extra to sit in these seats.” A shame that she had to be a bad cop, but it’s more of a shame that people expect to get something for nothing. They sheepishly gathered their things and returned to their original seats. The couple across from us quietly thanked the flight attendant. Things like that are appreciated for paying customers. Complete opposite of a recent Air France flight we were on where a whole family jumped into empty premium seats next to us. Not a peep from the FA’s the entire trip. We won’t fly Air France ever again.