A passenger offered a honeymoon -bound couple their seat on the plane at a cost they weren’t willing to pay. Wondering if they were in the wrong for charging the newlyweds , the passenger asked Reddit users what they thought, detailing the situation in the popular confession forum, Am I The A**hole . The Reddit writer prefaced the story by admitting their flight was from Melbourne to Dubai, a 13-hour and 50-minute flight non-stop.
Because the Redditor knew the travel time would be long, they splurged on a premium economy seat for comfort purposes. The passenger assigned to the seat over was the newlywed husband, who received an upgrade. “They asked if I could switch seats with their wife as they had just gotten married and were on their honeymoon,” the orignal poster explained.
“I congratulated him on his nuptials and asked where his wife was sitting.” Her seat wasn’t anywhere close to them. To the Reddit user’s disappointment, the wife was assigned an economy seat much closer to the back of the plane.
At first, the Redditor politely declined, but upon further push back, they agreed to swap seats for a price. “I offered to switch if he paid the difference between the seats,” the Reddit user. “It is a goodly amount.
I had been lucky to get mine at a decent price.” According to the original poster, the couple would have had to pay $1,000 AU or $676 US to switch. While the Redditor thought the offer was more than generous, the newlyweds didn’t bite becaus.