A passenger on the plane calls out the bizarre behavior of her fellow passenger – a stoic seat stealer who refused to move.
The passenger says she was faced with an ordeal when she first boarded her recent flight and discovered another woman was already “sitting in my seat,” according to her Reddit post shared on the Solo Female Travel subreddit.
When she saw the woman, she quickly exited the aisle and entered the queue in front of her to face the situation.
“I asked her, ‘Are you sitting in 27D?'” the Reddit user explains. “She says ‘yes’ and I hold up my boarding pass saying that’s my seat. She looked at me blankly and said, ‘okay’.
The other woman didn’t move to move, the redditer says, instead just staring at her, expressionless, even after she repeated that it was her seat.
“At this point I’m getting annoyed and confused – and she keeps looking straight past me, not moving,” she recalls.
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The seat stealer finally made a suggestion of her own; “She said, ‘Well, do you just want to sit where you are and wait to see if it’s somebody else’s seat?’ As a lady, no, I want to sit in my pre-selected seat.”
The passenger says that the situation was finally resolved only after more passengers boarded the plane.
“A guy comes and sits in the seat I was in, and then she finally moves to the middle seat that’s hers and makes some snide comment like, ‘I guess we were unlucky.’ What do you think WE? Don’t sit in someone’s seat and hope they find something else.”
The poster concluded: “I don’t understand people. It’s one thing to sit in someone’s place, it’s another thing to take the stand when they call you out.”
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In the comments section, users voiced their opinions on the OP (the original poster), with many saying that she should have taken a stronger stance sooner in this situation.
“Just based on what you wrote, there is room for you to be more assertive,” one person wrote.
Another added: “I personally would have said, ‘I’m in that seat,’ and stood there until she got up, even if it meant holding up the other passengers (which SHE caused). I wouldn’t give up or make any other moves until the flight attendant came.”
Echoing other comments, one user advised: “Call the flight attendant immediately. I can’t stand that petty BS.”
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PEOPLE previously spoke with travel expert, writer and consultant Nicole Campoy Jackson of Fora Travel about the etiquette of switching seats on an airplane.
Jackson explained that any in-flight disagreements should be handled by flight attendants because they are trained to confront passengers about it.
“I’m always in favor of involving flight attendants in in-flight emergencies,” Jackson said. “Tensions are high when we travel, and they would know, for example, if there is another aisle seat or another solution to this problem. They have more context than us travelers.”
She added: “Generally speaking, don’t board a plane expecting passengers to move for you, especially if your seat isn’t as comfortable as (or more than) theirs.”
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