Is it OK to save a seat at the bar?

“Context matters,” says Andrea Tateosian, the president of the D.C. Craft Bartenders Guild and a bartender at the Passenger. “If you're saving seats on a Friday night at 10:30, that's no good. But if the bar just opened, there are two people there and you're saving seats in the corner, that's fine.”



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However, passengers need not freak out over throwing off an airplane's center of gravity for the entire flight. After takeoff, passengers are free to move about the cabin without fear of disrupting critical weight distribution. But that doesn't necessarily mean it's OK to take over empty seats without warning.

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“A cardinal rule of seat swaps is that you should never take someone else's seat before they board,” the blog states. As for how requests to swap seats should be handled by travellers, both Gottsman and The Points Guy say that passengers should feel comfortable declining if they don't want to give up their seat.

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Always wait until boarding is finished.
Then — and only then — you may kindly ask a fellow passenger if you may swap with them.” She notes that if people sit in the wrong seat, this can cause havoc for both other passengers and the crew, so just be patient.

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