She needed to check her flight privilege. As if seat swap requests weren’t annoying enough, now it appears that pushy passengers are snatching up airplane seats without permission. An appalled passenger recounted having their seat occupied by an entitled woman, who then told them they could sit somewhere else, per a post making the rounds on Reddit.
The unnamed flyer, who was on an 8-hour flight to an undisclosed destination, described how they hadn’t paid “extra” for any seat and had decided to sit anywhere they were assigned. As luck would have it, the flyer scored a window seat — which they were grateful for given the length of the journey. “I wanted to sleep with the wall support the window seat offers,” recalled the eager Redditor.
However, the passenger’s dreams of a relaxing flight crashed and burned after they boarded the plane and saw that a “lady” was already sitting in their seat. To make matters worse, the air barbarian appeared none too willing to move. “She says ‘Oh, I didn’t realize.
You can just sit here,’ and points to the middle seat,” described the meek flyer. Unfortunately, the flyer ended up capitulating to the ludicrous suggestion. “I have a hard time with confrontation so I just accepted it,” lamented the Redditor, who asked the commentariat what they would’ve done in their shoes.
Fortunately, the sympathetic Redditors had a host of suggestions with one advising, “Just say, ‘I’d rather have my window seat thanks.
