{"id":442852,"date":"2026-06-01T04:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/united-airlines-polaris-14-hours-lying-flat-broken-seat\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T04:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T18:37:12","slug":"14-hours-lying-flat-united-polaris-passenger-pays-7400-gets-just-350-for-broken-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=442852","title":{"rendered":"14 Hours Lying Flat: United Polaris Passenger Pays $7,400, Gets Just $350 For Broken Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128657\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>United Airlines<\/span><\/span> passenger has recounted her experience of flying with the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255964\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/star-alliance\/\"  >Star Alliance<\/a><\/span> carrier last October when &#8216;Cathy&#8217; from <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"37631\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rantdb.com\/db\/movie\/philadelphia\/\"  >Philadelphia<\/a><\/span> had purchased two business class (<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/benefits-flying-united-airlines-polaris\/\" >Polaris<\/a>) seats to Beijing, and was forced to sit in a broken seat for the entire journey. Cathy noted that while occasionally she flies for work trips, the cost of this personal trip was $7,388 per ticket ($14,776 total).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the seatbelt became inaccessible, flight attendants allegedly dismissed the issue, leaving the passenger stuck for the remainder of the journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,1712,3574,1191,651,536,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-442852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-beijing-capital-airport","category-boeing-777-200","category-san-francisco-international-airport","category-seats","category-united-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=442852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442856,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442852\/revisions\/442856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}