Here’s what to do when it happens.

Because youre not buying an actual seat youre purchasing transportation.

If it happens to you, respond politely and graciously.

Airplane Seating Isle

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Over the years, Ive been asked countless times to move seats and have done so without complaining.

The gate agent has supreme power of seating assignments for every flight and dictates who sits where.

If they ask you to move, do it.

A woman holding up her boarding pass

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