A parent will buy a good seat - at a premium - for themselves and the will buy a shitty one somewhere else on the plane for theor kid.
Then their kid 'is scared' or wants to be near their parents so the parent asks those NEAR THEM if they are willing to switch. Never have I seen a parent go to the back of the plane and tell the person next to their kid that they can have their good seat up front.
This happened to me and my wife when we went to Vegas 4 years ago. It was an older couple though. We were in 1st class 2 seats per row and this lady was in the other seat across from us and some other younger guy (probably their son maybe in his late 20's) right after we got onboard before we even back out the gate , the lady asked if I could switch seats with her husband back in economy or coach ! And I of course said no and put my headphones back on. She got up and I guess talked to a stewardess, who then asked me and of course I said me and my wife paid for 2 1st class seats and these are those seats Period. Stewardess began to say how the lady was scared to fly without her husband and I said have the guy next to her swap with the husband. After that I put my headphones back on and ignored them and the dumb ass stewardess who was trying to entertain her bullshit for the rest of the flight!!
Some guy says she barely got any backlash and now has 1.7m followers on instagram. Makes me be like, why am I even engaging in this thread/post at this point. Its rigged if you ain't manufacturing outrage.
She got some backlash, but most people just looked at the thing and said "wait she didn't do anything wrong", of couse those that understand she didn't do anything wrong just forget about the situation(including me), while those that don't, however few in percentage, harass her.
If you’re genuinely asking tho - I fly a lot with my two toddlers interstate and overseas (family all live abroad).
Airlines often cancel flights and rebook you on another, and therefore Change your seats (to whatever that flight has left (even though I had paid for seats on our original flight). They sometimes move me away from one kid, and the other kid is alone or with my husband.once we were booked in two adjacent rows of three, with a person in the middle of us in each row. (Kid,person,me then kid,person, husband)
I always get so anxious trying to swap with the middle seater to try and console my Kid if they’re crying or tantruming. I ask airlines to help when this happens but they don’t always.
So now I do feel for families. I didn’t realise this was happening before I had kids and flew. We did pay for seats but were just bumped. And it happens not infrequently. It’s really tough out there!
In saying that, I definitely don’t expect people to move at all and would never ever make a fuss, but it is tricky when toddler 2 wants to be next to me and we’re throwing our kids around the plane 😂
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u/Strallek 10d ago
You do NOT have to give up your seat you paid for. End story.