Stowing my bag before I sat in an aisle seat of a Boeing 777-300 aircraft to which I was assigned, a woman comes and places her bag on what was to be my seat for the next 14 hours for a transatlantic flight; and on that seat was a clean unused pillow. “Could you please remove your bag from my seat?” I asked politely. “Yeah, yeah, yeah,” she grunted indifferently as she plunked another bag on my seat so that she may stow a third bag into the overhead bin with which she and her husband were traveling. This flight is already not starting off well for me; but it is a minor issue. Besides, I... The post The Irritatingly Successful Seat Poachers appeared first on The Gate. Continue reading...