Business-class plane passenger applauded for refusing to swap seats with couple

A traveller has revealed their response after they had been approached by a fellow traveller who tried to get them to swap their business-class plane seat.

The submit comes after a couple refused to quit reserved seats for kids.

The passenger who had been seated in enterprise class aboard the current flight took to Reddit to clarify how a lady approached them with the request. “I boarded the aircraft and went to my business class bulkhead window seat. [I was] getting ready to settle in for a long flight. A woman came to the aisle seat and placed her bag on the seat. She looked at me and asked me if I would be willing to trade with her husband so that he and she could sit together,” the Reddit person wrote, while noting they had been travelling by themselves.

According to the Reddit person, they requested the man passenger the place her husband’s present seat was, at which level the lady indicated that he was in row 25, which was within the financial system part. Because the lady was making an attempt to safe her husband a spot in a extra premium part of the plane with out paying for it, the Reddit person stated they declined to swap seats.

The business-class passenger defined of their since-deleted Reddit submit that the lady was “visibly upset” after not being given the seat and “couldn’t believe” she wouldn’t be allowed to sit subsequent to her husband on the plane.

“I suggested that she trade her seat with whoever was sitting next to her husband so that they could sit together. She snorted and told me she had paid for a first class ticket! I smiled slightly and said that, indeed, I had as well,” the submit, which has since been deleted, learn.

Since sharing the submit, many individuals have taken to the feedback part to defend the passenger for not giving up their seat. “I can’t believe she thought this would work. What a moron,” one remark learn concerning the girl who requested to swap seats.

“Sadly I saw a ‘TikTok Travel Influencer’ market this as a ‘hack,’” one other commenter wrote. “I hate everything about TikTok.”

“First-class seats long haul cost thousands. No way am I giving up what I paid for so some entitled arse can take it,” a 3rd commenter agreed with the passenger. “Tears or no tears I’m not moving.”

Another commenter chimed in, writing that they’ve witnessed somebody use this method to get a seat improve with out paying for it and it labored. “I saw it work once and was so mad on the person’s behalf. It was an older woman, and a young couple asked her, and the girl actually started crying. The older woman gave them her upgraded seat, and the minute she was gone, all the tears stopped,” they wrote. “If you want to sit together, you give someone else your upgrade and take the lesser seats. End of story.”

Some commenters assumed that the lady had by no means paid for a first-class ticket within the first place, however was solely upgraded to a greater seat and her husband was not. “Because she didn’t pay for first class, she got upgraded, but her husband didn’t,” the remark learn.

Amanda Mancino-Williams took to X, previously often known as Twitter, to share her expertise using a full practice from Cheltenham to Nottingham within the United Kingdom. The seats had been sectioned into teams of 4, with two seats sitting in between a desk. She reserved one group of 4 seats for herself and her kids, however arrived to see an aged couple sitting in two of them. In the resurfaced thread, which was initially shared in 2019, she claimed the couple refused to transfer as a result of her reserved tickets “don’t matter”.