Aviation: KLM offers choice of single serving friends

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Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 7:29 pm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/8956943/Airline-offers-chance-to-pick-who-you-sit-next-to-using-Facebook.html

I think it's a horrible idea but it may have potential for baiting. I've no idea how, but I'll leave it to others. OTOH, the mile high clubbers will be yipping like hell all the way from Schipol to wherever.

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 11:32 pm

Nutty idea. It matters to me where I sit (over the wing area) but it really doesn't much matter to me who I sit beside except I don't want to sit beside Alec Baldwin who refused to stop playing his silly Word game when asked by the airline staff and put up a big fuss.

http://travel.usatoday.com/flights/post/2011/12/baldwin-american-airlines-story/581045/1

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 9:13 pm

I can think of circumstances when this could be useful.

Baiting Guru Joined: 19 Apr 2007 Posts: 3123

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It could enable people with like minded interests to while away the time on a long and boring flight or at least enable passengers to avoid being stuck alongside the traveller from hell.

I can see it being used for much more sinister purposes. I hope it doesn't catch on.

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 9:20 pm

Craig007 wrote:

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the traveller from hell.

That would be the person I said beside when I went across the pond to Europe not long ago. She was drinking booze and popping pain pills.

After 2 wks I discovered she was on the return flight. I made sure I was not seated beside her again. Fortunately it was an AirBus 330 and had a whole row of middle seats vacant and they put me in that row.

Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 5:14 am

Not exactly airline related but I had the misfortune to be sitting next to a guy almost as big as that guy in lakeside77's post on a bus from Sydney to Canberra last year. Even though my halo might have slipped, it's not that big. Even so, that guy next to me took up so much of my seat I was forced to sit jammed up against the window in a twisted angle for 3-1/4 hours and he had the hide to winge the whole trip in a loud voice about how much space I was taking up. Unfortunately I couldn't move to another seat as the bus was full. At least it was a non stop service.

Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 2:37 pm

^^^^ Some airlines make those people pay for 2 seats. If he only paid for one and spilled over into the next seat the flight attendants IMHO should have done something, made him debark the plane, go pay for 2 seats on another flight. There is no reason that someone should be jammed up like you were in an already a smaller-than-small space.

Mr. Le Fay works in the airplane furbishing business and I know which airlines have the smallest seats and refuse to fly that airline and I know which airlines have the best safety records.

Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 5:08 pm

^^ Interesting. Can you share this information/give a hint, or is it supersecretconfidential? Smile

Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 5:58 pm

Let me find out the latest on this. I do know Alaska Airlines has the best safety record (per the guys that work on them)

Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 8:06 pm

Morgain Le Fay wrote:

I know which airlines have the smallest seats

Does one of those airlines have the initials "US" in its name? About ten years ago I started driving to the east coast rather than flying on one of their sardine cans (I am 6 feet 2 inches).

That picture was taken by an American Airlines flight attendant who wanted to convince her supervisors that a firm policy for obese passengers was needed. Nobody knew for sure why the gate agents allowed that guy to board without two seats.

Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 2:25 am

Morgain Le Fay wrote:

Mr. Le Fay works in the airplane furbishing business and I know which airlines have the smallest seats and refuse to fly that airline and I know which airlines have the best safety records.

I worked in aviation security for over 10 years until I took a redundancy in 2006. Still have contacts in aviation security so can still keep up to date with the best safety records, etc.

A certain "flying rat" is not high on my list of favourite airlines to fly on.

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