 Poster: A snowHead
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Bode Swiller, glad you've got a sense of humour!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Bode Swiller wrote: |
| There should be a seperate section for Pukeyboarders. |
yup, definitely think there should be priority seating for pukers. Right at the front, nearest the loo and exit.  Will definitely try leaving a sick bag on the middle seat from here on.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Glad you have a sense of humour Bode!
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Easyjet are the only option out of Scotland IMO.
Great carrier - ok the ski charge is steep but they will take your boot bag free (with skis). Invest in a massive mamabonker and you can get 3 sets in.
Best seat is the second back row aisle - the back row narrows at the window for even less room
- in the second it doesn't but the voddie and cokes still come bloody quick. Plus you can usually still get a bacon roll to boot.
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Bert Einstein in a letter to his wife
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| You will renounce all personal relations with me insofar as they are not completely necessary for social reasons... |
They would so be sitting window and aisle 
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Wayne, he also said "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." He was in the non-speedy boarding queue at the time.
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| miranda wrote: |
| Why are single travellers who would prefer to have the most amount of room possible for the duration of the flight symptomatic of a decline in morals ? |
I genuinely do make an effort on a train that is obviously going to be full to ask the person who has most conspicuously spread handbags, wheelie cases etc and faked being asleep to move their crap so I can sit down. They don't feel so clever once they've had to stack all that on their knees. Selfish and unrealistic behaviour on their part deserves to be called out. Most Easyjet flights I've flown on tend to be pretty full so any couple that expects their own row is equally unrealistic.
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fatbob, Different with trains because there are more bums than seats normally so, obviously, common decency has to prevail. A plane is not always full though so it's a different game called "who has the empty next to them when the door shuts".
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fatbob, sure, but that's not what Bode Swiller had said when the point about moral decline came up. Given the choice, if a lone traveller was sitting in the window seat of a row of three, would you sit in the middle or aisle seat?
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I'd certainly do anything (moral or not) to avoid finding myself bang next to someone who calls himself fatbob. It could mean he's very thin and sarcastic I suppose.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| miranda wrote: |
| Why are single travellers who would prefer to have the most amount of room possible for the duration of the flight symptomatic of a decline in morals |
If you have to ask you'll never understand the answer.
| Bode Swiller wrote: |
| "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." |
You can take it from me (as I’m a ski instructor and consequentially omniscient) that the universe “is” infinite (and flat) – this was known (theoretically) in Bert’s day, but it couldn’t be proved then as the required technology wasn’t available. To prove it to yourself you’ll need an “extremely” good quality plasma TV in your front room and a bit of string; these combined with some junior school level maths (to work out the angles in a triangle) will provide the proof.
 But the best thing to do would be to just take my word for it.
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So back on topic and off the morals talk...
This allocated seating thing, do you have to pay to allocate your seat (unless a EJ loyalty card holder)? If you don't pay you can still get on last, choose who you sit next to and get your egg sarnies out?
Booked to go to Ireland next week with Aer Lingus, they charge 5euro each way for seat allocation. So declined on spending the 20euros (for the two of us) on a seat and will enjoy an extra few pints of Guiness when I get there instead...the flights less than an hour, if I do get split up from the missus I think I'll cope!
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You know it makes sense.
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| Wayne wrote: |
| miranda wrote: |
| Why are single travellers who would prefer to have the most amount of room possible for the duration of the flight symptomatic of a decline in morals |
If you have to ask you'll never understand the answer. |
Miranda that's code for "I haven't a clue but I'd still like to appear intellectual".
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| Wayne wrote: |
| miranda wrote: |
| Why are single travellers who would prefer to have the most amount of room possible for the duration of the flight symptomatic of a decline in morals |
If you have to ask you'll never understand the answer. |
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Poster: A snowHead
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| Bode Swiller wrote: |
| that's code for "I haven't a clue but I'd still like to appear intellectual". |
Oh, a bit of argumentum ad hominem this early in the morning, ok, but let's face it we all know what it means.
If a person makes a decision that they know will produce a greater amount of discomfort to someone else than the relative increase in comfort they gain, this is just being selfish. They know it, everyone knows it, but (and this is the sad thing) they honestly don’t care. They will have justified their actions (selfishness) to their own satisfaction (I’m all right, sod you) and it is really is symptomatic of the current state of morality. I'm not suggesting that this hasn't always been so, but it is noticeably more overt "these days".
The strange thing is that even though they will have self-justified their right to hog as much space as possible (it’s my right ya know); they will feel as aggrieved as anyone else if they find themselves in the reversed situation.
Recap- Do unto others……..etc, etc
so children let's all remember our new word for the day...Reciprocity.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| manicpb wrote: |
This allocated seating thing, do you have to pay to allocate your seat (unless a EJ loyalty card holder)? If you don't pay you can still get on last, choose who you sit next to and get your egg sarnies out?
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Apparently, if you don't pay, they'll automatically allocate you a seat - I think at the point when you check-in at the airport, or print your boarding pass online.
So no free choice at all anymore - though if the flight's pretty empty I hope they wouldn't kick up a fuss if someone wanted to move elsewhere.
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I'm still waiting for them to charge per kg for passengers and their luggage combined, though.
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I would love to see this.
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Philbo, please check with Wayne to see if it would be morally right for the airline to do that though. I'd like to see people allocated sections of the aircraft dependent on IQ.
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I'd like to see people allocated sections of the aircraft dependent on IQ.
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There could be a positive correlation. 
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I'd like eugenics so I could breed the exact type of people I'm exposed to on public transport.
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Back on topic
Have just booked a group of 24 onto EZY for early Feb next year and I didn't click the "select your seats" option on the booking form.
Just had the confirmation and there is no charge for the seats but it says "automatically allocated". Not sure what this means but I assume that the group may be together on the plane or, if someone else pays for the seats, the group may be all over the place.”
This is the same process that BA use for group allocations, so it seems EZY are not doing anything that BA don't do already.
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Wayne, I should think it's unlikely they'd all be together, but so what? Little kids or the very elderly would hopefully be looked after OK, but as for capable adults, why would they worry if they sit a little way from their friends for an hour or so?  Anyone who wants to sit together can pay the extra - seems fair enough to me.
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pam w,
I agree with you. Most airlines do this now and it doesn't seems to cause any problems.
We only use EZY for a few hundred seats per year anyway and they don't do anything different from other airlines (as long as you stick to thier T&C's).
There are many bugs in the system with each airline but as long as you play thier game they don't seem too bad.
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* Ski's can not be pre-paid with BA for group allocations. So if you hav 80 seats on a flight and 10 want to take thier own skis, they have to be paid for at the airport. But this is the same with KLM, Air France, etc.
* EZY require that you print off the boading pass prior to getting to the airport.
* Dolomiti Air will not gaurantee your skis will be on the same plane as you and they ask that you turn up in time for the previous flight so they can be loaded asap.
* etc, etc
But as long as you play the game there don't seem to be too many problems. The problems arrise (most of the time) when pople either don't know the T&C's or try to wiggle around them.
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Loving the moral debate on easyjet seating tactics!
It is simple:
If you are a couple, it is wrong to sit in both the aisle and the window, leaving the middle seat free to discourage people.
If you are on your own, it is not wrong to choose to sit in the aisle seat when another solo is in the window.
It IS wrong, if you are a couple or a solo to LIE about the seat not being free. Very rude, that.
Simples
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Great news! They used to allow families with children up to the age of 11 to have priority boarding, but then changed it just to children under 5.
My 6 year old was very upset on one flight when he had to sit several rows away from me. They told me I should have purchased Speedy Boarding, but I thought that was just discrimination against families...
At least that situation should no longer occur.
Thanks EasyJet!
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Does anyone know if Easyjet do the smartphone boarding pass thing? I don't have a printer...
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You know it makes sense.
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queen bodecia, No they don't, although you can normally print a boarding pass at one of their terminals at the airport. I like the option to download BA boarding passes to my iPhone and EJ have an app, so it should be easy for them to do it.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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geepee, no probs, I'll visit a friend with a printer the day before.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Do you really have to print the boarding pass? Is that new? I haven't used eJ a lot recently, but distinctly remember entering my reservation number in the terminals at Geneva airport and getting both boarding pass and luggage labels printed out. Very swift and easy.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I used to love getting on a EZ flight and asking the Steward to move so that I could sit in the Emergency exit row - they always stand there so that they can shuffle all the kids and non-able bodied further along as they aren't allowed to sit there by law. The thing is, most EJ customers ahead of me obviously thought they couldn't sit there, due to the presence of said steward barring their way and moved on down the aisle to other rows. One flight I remember having the whole exit row to myself.
But what I want to know is..... if when the flight is closed and all passengers are on board, there are still spare seats at the front and exit rows - will EJ crew allow people to sit in a seat other than the allocated one, or will it be like Vueling were the front three rows of seats (which get exactly the same service as every other seat - they just cost €25 more to book) sit empty on nearly every trip?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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pam w, Yes, as far as I'm aware you can still do that.
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Scampi Dellahanti, Well, put it this way, if you try and sit in my spare seat (because I always have a spare seat), I will ask you if you have paid extra to sit there (which you won't have) and then I will make certain remarks about your low morality and maybe send you away with warnings about how your behaviour is just a race to the bottom that society can ill afford right now.
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Does anyone know if Easyjet do the smartphone boarding pass thing? I don't have a printer...
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I suppose it depends on the airport not the airline. The couple in front of us at GVA used it last time we were there. But it needed some one a little higher in the feeding chain to remind the checkin clerk that they could. So yes it works at Geneva.
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Surely the main issue to be addressed with easyjet and the other "everything is exttra" airlines is not the allocated seating (I suppose that this is mainly to releave the jam at the doors where everyone is trying to sit in the first free seat they come to) but to allocate luggage space. I don't think the aircraft can carry the maximum luggage allowance everyone carries on the plane therefore the last ones on have to pack it around there feet and no one wants to do that.
Would it not be a good idea to charge people for carryon luggage, but allow them to put it in the hold for free.
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Bode Swiller, The air marshall would be able to produce a gun, whereas you would be reduced to a "bluff" card (if you are old enough to get the reference
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| queen bodecia wrote: |
| Does anyone know if Easyjet do the smartphone boarding pass thing? I don't have a printer... |
You don't need to pre-print the boarding pass with ANY airline. I've never ever done it - they can print the boarding pass for you at checki-n, and lots of airports have print it yourself terminal things. The only time it's worth printing it out at home is if you're flying with just hand luggage, so there's then no need to check-in and you can jsut go straight to departures.
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clarky999, Don't try it with Ryanair, as they will charge you for printing it for you. I also don't agree about not printing it with Easyjet, last year I printed mine and had hold luggage and was directed to a much shorter queue than those without boarding cards, so if you can print at home then I can see no reason for not doing so. I do concede though, that everyone printed their boarding cards with EJ, then the other queue might be shorter.
Edit: Even if you print your boarding card with Ryanair, you still get charged a fee for on-line booking.
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