Not to have given up my seat on plane

Happy to. You pay £ x what I paid for sitting here and 100% on top to me for changing my seat to one I didn't want..

No? Fine.
Works everytime.

I would. In a heart beat. I’d want the best seat if I was paying, and to be close to travel companion. I’m afraid I’m not paying to take the shite seat. Fuck that.

This. It was an inconsiderate booking.

YANBU not to move but booking an aisle and window seat when you're together is just odd.

I think she's fine to tell her travelling party that she's asked as it stops them pestering her about asking. It's not her fault they piped up with some nonsense about her bladder.

Her family and her friends were on the flight?

You and your friend deliberately booked aisle and window seats on the same row, which was a bit of a weird thing to do. Did you do it in the hope you’d have the whole row of three seats to yourselves?

I wouldn’t move from a seat I’d paid for, but I wouldn’t book seats the way you and your friend did either.

Well it may depend on the disaster, given the state of terrorism in the world. It wouldn't necessarily have to be a Lost style scenario.

I've got a temperamental bladder so I always book an aisle seat. Cheeky cow.

Same here. How did she even know you were together unless you were talking?
also a dick move to book aisle and window in same row -presumably expecting to get the benefit of an empty middle seat -ie the whole row.
YABU to book those seats. If you aren’t talking it wouldn’t matter about being on the same row.

In the event of a disaster I very much doubt everyone would still be sat in their identified seat in one piece even if they hadn’t moved

This is also something to be considered. It is a common technique to try and get more space on a flight. While it is perfectly allowable and OP is under no obligation to move it is a bit sneaky. If they really wanted aisle and window they should ideally have gone for seperate rows

YANBU. Since when did BA charge to reserve seats though? They charge a bloody fortune as it is. A lot has obviously changed since I last flew with them!

You were absolutely right to refuse to move, stroppy entitled mare (her, not you). Do airlines still check seat manifests to identify passengers in the event of disasters etc? Sure she wouldn't have wanted the wrong family being notified....

You and your friend booked an aisle and a window because you know it stops people booking the middle seat and you hoped for the free seat in between.

She was not unreasonable to ask and you were not unreasonable to say no but don't pretend that your booking wasn't deliberately awkward!

I've not said she should sit in the middle. I've not said OP was WRONG. I think however when travelling with someone else that it's polite to sit together or further apart than one seat away. It is not the social norm to create an awkward seat in the middle for one person.

Oh this boils my piss! I know really wealthy people who refuse to pay extra to sit with their kids and then get upset when it's a ball ache to move closer to them on a flight. I find it selfish and entitled behaviour!

I would have swapped......if she paid me double the amount that I paid for my seat.
I book and pay for an aisle seat for a good reason, and I'm not giving it up for anyone or anything.

Young naieve me would've given her the seat. 40 year old me would've done exactly as you did.

It’s polite to book the seat you want, pay the money or accept you will be allocated and understand if may be a middle seat between folks. Why the hell should the op pay to sit in the middle

You’re not being unreasonable, but I don’t get why there are constantly threads on this topic, and social media seems to be covered in “I didn’t move” stories. Ok…well done?

You were not unreasonable. She was the entitled one.

(BA now charge in .99 fractions for seats? <misses point of thread>)

She paid for the seat. Don't want to be stuck in the middle? Pay for the seat you want.

You know you’re not being unreasonable, I hate people who do this, it’s so unacceptable and entitled.

I’ve always refused, worst I had was I was lucky enough to have the two seats at the side, no one on the seat next to me, the bloke comes up and could you swap with us, by wife is scared of flying. They were in the middle of a bank of four or five in middle of the plane.i said no sorry, if you wish to move, speak to cabin crew but I don’t want to sit in middle. Cue his wife giving it am dram. She stood up and started crying loudly. Staring at me,hyper ventilating. Everyone was watching, she was giving it please, please. I couldn’t fathom how she’d be les scared in the aisle
than the middle,next to her husband in both areas. I simply said no, speak to cabin crew repeatedly.

eventually a member of staff came over as she was causing so much noise, telling them I wouldn’t move, she was terrified, she wanted my seats, pointing at me. I simply said to crew I’m not moving. It’s not less scary here than there and I don’t see why her issues should be mine.

cabin crew told her to sit down, she’d look . Woman settles down. Is happy as Larry, then every time I looked over or crew came round she’d start giving it loud hysterics . When we landed she glared at me and stomped off. Utter fucking idiot.

She wasn't unreasonable to ask politely, you weren't unreasonable to refuse politely. She could have paid to reserve a seat like you did.