A woman has taken to Reddit to ask if she was wrong for refusing to give up the extra seat she paid for when a taller passenger asked her to swap it to give him more legroom
When booking an airline ticket, it usually makes sense to customize the seat to suit your travel requirements, which is what a traveler has decided to do.
The woman, who completed a 12-hour flight, shared on Reddit how she booked her seats on the plane “months in advance,” saying: “When I booked, I paid extra to choose my seats.” The The seat I chose was $55 extra and was at the front of the plane (I was trying to get somewhere on time when I landed). The seat also happened to be a seat with more legroom and I’m a 4’11 woman.”
She explained that everything was fine at first and said that she checked in, got in and found her seat as usual, but revealed that when “the seat belt sign was turned off” a man came up to her and asked her to “put it on.” to change seats”.
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The woman added that she was “open to it” until she realized his seat was “at the back of the plane.” So she “apologized to him” and explained that she had paid extra to “sit in the front.”
She then went on to explain that the man was starting to get annoyed, saying: “He was getting angrier and angrier and wouldn’t go and say there’s no reason why someone my size needs more legroom (I told him I paid for it). , to be in advance). .
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“I suggested he ask the other people in those seats if they could swap, but he refused, saying he didn’t want to bother other men or break up couples.” The traveler added that the man was “rude and angry “, so she was forced to “call a flight attendant and tell him to sit down.”
Unfortunately, she said, “For the rest of the flight he walked past me for no reason and crashed into me (I was sitting in the aisle).” She ended the post by asking other Reddit users if she was in the wrong and if she would have decided to swap with him.
Reddit users were quick to comment on her post, with many people assuring her that she was not in the wrong and had every right to stay in the spot she paid for. One said, “So my brother is 6 feet tall.” Do you know what he does when he has to fly? He makes sure he gets an emergency exit or a row with more legroom.
“Normally he has to pay for it. Any tall person with a bit of common sense knows they have to do this for flights. This tall person knows he needs more legroom but chose to try not to have to pay for it. A person switching was totally within their rights to say no, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THEY PAID EXTRA, and a tall one Person has no right to be an idiot.”
A second agreed, adding: “There’s a big person here. If I want more legroom, I can pay for it like everyone else. I don’t pay for the cheapest seat and then try to get someone with a smaller size to give me the more expensive seat that they bought for free.”
While a third commented: “He’s tall, he’s been tall his whole life. He knew that flying was a burden on him and that he didn’t want to spend the extra money, and he became an abusive tyrant towards a single woman when he couldn’t get his way. You should have reported him and he should have been removed from the flight, or you should have been compensated for your seat. A grown man felt he had a right to you giving him what he wanted. “You were an easy target because you were alone and he couldn’t get his way and he harassed you the whole flight.”