American Airlines flight crams its only 11 passengers into last 3 rows

[jehb2]

American Airlines flight crams its only 11 passengers into last 3 rows: report

Flight attendants are blowing the whistle.

nypost.com

 

[plpgma]

Seriously!!!

 

[geekette]

Wow! That's so ridiculous.

But, yeah, it would be an upgrade to not sit shoulder to shoulder with other people that may or may not be infected.

Added to my forever boycott list.

poor flight attendants, probably taking the brunt of discord.

 

[dioxide45]

I suspect it is just how the computer is setup to automatically assign the seats for basic economy. In the end, they weren't forced to sit together.

Despite a lack of protocol allowing them to do so, flight attendants “took it upon ourselves to spread them out,” she claims to the outlet.

 

[geekette]

...However, one frequent flyer told The Post she experienced a similar scenario on her last American Airlines flight.


“This was on March 7th from JFK to LAX — all passengers were shoved in the last 8 rows and had about 12 rows free,” said Katie Levine, 28, a Los Angeles-based photographer whose work has appeared in Vogue and GQ magazines. “We weren’t allowed to spread out because it was ‘extra legroom seats.’ When I discussed [this] with the flight attendant, he said ‘What’s next, you guys are gonna expect first class seats?’ It was absolutely insane.”


After American Airlines’ new protocols were put in place, one flight attendant claims they were on another flight where the few passengers were tightly confined within their class tier. All 15 passengers were again crammed into the plane’s last rows, barred from moving ahead of the exit row, as that would constitute an upgrade.

 

[mjm1]

AA could manage it by only selling X number of basic economy seats, so passengers don’t try to take advantage of the lower fare with expectations that they can upgrade for free once on the plane. That would help with the distancing and set some level of expectations. It’s not a good idea to put the flight attendants in a challenging position.

Best regards.

Mike

 

[bobpark56]

There were 9 passengers on our Delta flight from BOS-PIT on 22 March. They let us sit anywhere we wanted...except in first class.

 

[Trudyt623]

The NY Post is not a credible source. It is a gossip column disguised as a newspaper.

 

[pittle]

We flew on an AA flight 2 years ago with only 15 passengers from PVR to PHX. They told us we could sit where we wanted, except for 1st class and we could not all sit on the same side of the plane. We needd to balance it out. Hubs and I just set in our assigned Row 6 seat with no one between us. Some chose the exit row seats and others aisle seats.

 

[ilene13]

I flew on AA on March 10th. I was in an empty first class. Coach was about half full and they allowed the passengers to spread out, but not in the 1st class cabin.