A frequent flyer has revealed she refused to switch window seats with an ‘authorized’ passenger who wanted to sit next to his wife.
The anonymous woman shared on Reddit how she refused to sit in the middle seat on an 11-hour flight from New York to Cairo, Egypt, so the man sitting next to her could sit next to his wife.
Her confession rekindled a heated conversation around plane etiquette, just days after a woman revealed she refused to give up her seat so a 10-year-old boy could sit in side of his family.
The anonymous woman shared her story on the social media platform to denounce the man under a thread titled “TitlePeople‘, prompting other netizens to slam the man for asking someone else to upgrade to a substandard seat so he could be happy.
A frequent flyer has revealed she refused to switch window seats with an ‘authorized’ passenger so he could sit next to his wife.
The woman shared on Reddit that she refused to sit in the middle seat during an 11-hour flight from New York to Cairo so that a man sitting next to her could sit with his wife (stock image)
The message read: “It was a while ago, but it is an excellent example of pure law. Flight from New York to Cairo, the seating configuration consisted of three rows of seats. Two windows and aisles on each side with four or five center seats.
“I had a window above one wing. I chose the seat thinking of sleeping several months in advance; although I travel frequently, I’m not going to claim that I fly to Egypt often, so this vacation was very well planned.
“I was settled in my seat when my aisle mate approached his and asked if I would be willing to swap with his wife so they could sit together.
“They both seemed to be part of a group of travelers of the same age; It occurred to me from the discussions that this may have been some sort of group tour (knowing the area and knowing that the organizers may have been negligent in allocating seats , I was more than willing to consider an exchange if the seat was comparable).
However, when she asked him if the seat was up to his standards, the man revealed that his wife’s seat was in the middle of a row.
She refused to budge and apologized to the man, adding that she would stay in her assigned place.
The woman added: “Instead of switching places with someone sitting in the middle – who I’m sure would have been happy to take a hallway – so he could sit next to his wife, he sat down in his seat and started arguing with me. ‘
She noted that the man scolded her for refusing to trade, adding that she would have no “sight” of where she was sitting, so it was better for her to move.
People flooded the comments and criticized the man for his behavior
“I simply reply that I intend to sleep against and refuse again. I try to be nice, I am pleasing and I am stuck next to this guy.
“He keeps bugging me like the mosquito he might have been in a past life and asked me, ‘If you had a husband, wouldn’t you want to sit with him?’
The man continued to throw punches at the frequent traveler, which made her “totally irritated”.
She added: “I stated that I had ‘a husband’ and that if my husband and I were traveling together, not only would I make sure our seats were assigned together, but if they weren’t, I would leave my driveway and go sit with my spouse in the middle.
The man then kept his mouth shut for the rest of the trip and “pretended to ignore her existence”.
People flooded the comments and criticized the man for his behavior.
One person said: “The ‘I’m trying to get a free upgrade’ type of person is a regular on these flights. Never say yes, you invested time getting the seat (which it didn’t) and probably money (those middle seats are hard to sell and often cheaper)
“Somehow they never want the free downgrade to be with their spouse.”
Another user added, “Those middle seats are the ones you get when you don’t pay for your seat choice at all. »
One person wrote, “I think people who don’t travel regularly for work don’t realize how stiff airplane seats are. They probably think it’s like a bus.
“He growled throughout the flight…that’s why I always bring earplugs,” someone else added.
Another user wrote, “He didn’t want to change the middle seat because he wanted to improve his wife’s seat by making you take a worse seat. There was never any question of wanting to sit next to his wife. ‘
“My husband and I returned from our honeymoon with me sitting in the front of the plane and him sitting in the back. It never crossed our minds to ask someone to change seats,” one person added.
His confession comes just two weeks after a passenger was praised online for refusing to give up her first-class seat to a woman who wanted to sit closer to her teenage daughter.
TikTok creator and pharmacist Dr. Sabra racked up nearly 10 million views after sharing her elated reaction to the confrontation.
The short clip was captioned: ‘POV: Flight attendant asks me if I want to give up my 1A seat for a child to sit with his family’, saw her grinning ear to ear after refusing to his mother.
The denial comes months after a man sparked a furious debate when he refused to hand over his first-class seat to his boss, despite using his own credit card points to do so.
In the past, DailyMail.com’s Jaci Stephen has even given her perspective and confessed that she ‘absolutely refuses’ to swap seats, no matter how angry the passenger asking to switch.
