Not to have given up my seat on plane

The very same thing has happened to me before. Thankfully, a guy offered to swap with me when he saw our situation and it meant that one parent could sit with our young children, he ended up with a better seat too so everyone was happy.

You don't have to be. But some people do care and they can choose to pay for the seat they want.

Unless you have under-3s or a disability I genuinely cannot imagine being arsed about where you sit on a plane.

This!

On our recent flight someone asked my DH to move so she could sit next to her friend. He politely refused as he was across the aisle from me and the DC and had booked that seat specifically. Everything was fine, no drama and no social media validation required

I don't think I'm precious, but then again I would rather sit on the wing than make small talk with two strangers for 9 hours, so maybe I am after all 😂

The talking over me would annoy me.

The harm was that she wanted (and paid for) the extra feeling of space of an aisle seat and would have lost that by moving to the middle seat.

If you ask to swap seats with me you will get a STONE COLD STARE! I'll refuse to say a word! When you decline politely they still act passive aggressive and give you attitude throughout the flight!

I would have joined in the conversation if I was sat between two people. Simples .Especially since I am not from UK . Met some nice people, had a laugh , helped each other out . We are all stuck in this tin can in the sky together with only 4 toilets usually. Not the place to crave privacy or get precious about our space . Short haul flights especially .

Do calm dear 😇

@Rainbowgoldover YANBU if that woman wanted an aisle seat she should have bloody paid for one like you and your friend did. She's an entitled cheeky fucker.

Something similar happened to me on a train, back then you could pay to reserve a seat with a plug and it was cheap too only about £2 or £3 I booked a table seat. Anyway when I got to my seat a guy was sitting there with his phone plugged in. I politely said to him that he was in my seat and showed my ticket he responded by pointing at the seat opposite and said "that seat's free you can sit there" my cheeky fucker alarm bells started ringing so I replied more firmly "I paid to reserve that seat and I will be sitting in it please move or I'll call a member of staff to move you" cue lots of huffing and puffing but he moved then left his phone in the socket to charge and when I unplugged it he rudely said "I need to charge my phone!" At which point my politeness vanished and I replied back "well you should have paid to reserve a seat with one like I did you rude dickhead!" He sat in silence throwing me dirty looks had he asked me nicely if I minded him charging his phone I would have let him but I don't allow cheeky fuckers to take the piss on general principle because it encourages them more.

I’ll never move for entitled pricks who can’t be bothered to book appropriately.

A few years ago, I was asked to give up my reserved seat by a small group that wanted to sit together but obviously hadn't reserved seats. They didn't take a polite no for an answer and continued to pester me. So, I explained to them that in the event of a plane crash the forces are so extreme that passengers' limbs and heads are often wrenched off and of course if there is a fire the bodies are reduced to ashes. This means that seat numbers are often the only viable means of identifying remains and I wasn't giving up my seat and risking one of them ending up in my family plot. They stopped asking.

Disabled people don’t normally pay for allocated seating. It’s one of the few perks we get.

Ok, I got that but the family were obviously upset the airline had booked them on the wrong plane. They were assured they would be booked into a flight that has the 5 seat row, and that didn’t happen. So saying it isn’t a thing that exists is an exaggeration.

You would have paid extra to choose your seat then just given up the seat you'd paid extra for because someone demanded it?

even then you would have been well within your rights to refuse

How are you disagreeing? I literally said she shouldn't move.

If a flight is full, logically someone is going to be sat in that seat, and not everyone will have the option of paying to avoid it..

There are 2 things I don't understand about this seat booking malarkey.

1. Why people make such a fuss about sitting near their friends and families. One thing if you have a young child and then it's your responsibility to book and pay for appropriate seating, but if all older children or adults, how people cannot cope without sitting next to friends and family members and that being 10metres away will create lifelong trauma. It's v silly. Reminds me of when you have to walk in the road to get past people who can't bear to let go of partner's hands for a whole two seconds to let other pedestrians get past.

1. Why people object to paying. In the olden days you'd pay £100 and could choose your seat. Now you pay £50 and have the option to pay another £50 if picking a seat is important to you. Total cost works out the same so why so much fuss.

Although- it may well be they had been promised an A380. Which might make their reaction slightly more comprehensible.

Its simple. travellers are offered an opportunity to choose their seats and pay extra. in the nature of our universe, those opportunities will be limited by the conformation of the plane. Book late or decline to pay and you will get what you are given.

No my point was that it did not exist on that plane. The plane they were actually on. Which they certainly could see for themselves.

I haven't flown for a while so can anybody answer this question:-
Can you book & pay seat allocation for 3 seats together if only 2 people are travelling?
And will the cabin crew then honour that allocation?
Reason being being medical condition/disability and needing extra room.

Disagree - even if they offered the amount of money OP paid - I would not move unless it was substantially more and even then I'd take their attidue into consideration before trying

Rather than people bleat about not wanting a middle seat, wither pay extra, or go with airlines that inc free booked seats or do as we do, arrive early, simples

I'd have insisted her husband move to the middle as part of the swap or refuse to swap.

But since you'd swapped, I'd then insisted she swap back to her own seat since they were being rude and inconsiderate.

did nobody ask the flight staff to do anything?