In this situation would you offer to switch seats on a flight?

Maybe they got on well?! It is completely possible to meet a stranger and have stuff in common you know!

All of this "why didn't he just put his headphones in".. If you are having a nice conversation with someone then I would take that any day over being on my phone / listening to music for the sake of it.

And not everyone takes headphones on a flight / long journey!

No, I don’t think they actually got around to a fuck! 🤣🤣🤣

No. Other people’s poor planning isn’t my problem

This OW was clearly taking delight in the fact that you and DH were seated separately, she had the upper hand and was playing it for all it was worth.

What the actual fuck?!?!?! 😂

I'm amazed your DH tolerated chatting to this unknown woman for 10 hours tbh!

I would have exchanged pleasantries then plugged in to a movie ...

She probably wasn't annoying. The OP said her husband was chatting away so presumably he was happy to talk to this woman.

Me and DH don't always pay for seats next to each other on a plane (depends how long the flight is) and yes, shock horror, sometimes we make conversation with a stranger OF THE OPPOSITE SEX who is sitting next to us 😱

To date neither of us have had an affair with our plane companions but I will make sure I glare at him from a distance keep an eye on things in future just in case!

……..and your point is????

If you’d had a window seat two rows apart then yes, I’d switch. However your middle of the plane aisle seat does not equate to her window seat seat

2 hours chatting out of 10 hours isn't much. I can do better!

Well, this is the biggest work of fiction I've seen on MN yet!

A female passenger unintentionally sat next to someone else's husband not out of choice is now an "other woman?!" and "taking delight" in the married couple not being sat together simply because she dared talk to the man? I really have heard it all on here now! 😂

Assuming that your DH was in the aisle seat and OW was by the window, why didn’t he wait until you had made your way towards him and let you go in front of him? That would have been the chivalrous thing to do. If their seating was the opposite way, he could still have given you priority.

This OW was clearly taking delight in the fact that you and DH were seated separately, she had the upper hand and was playing it for all it was worth.

Let this go OP, unless they swapped numbers discretely what is there to worry about but maybe give DH a lesson in how a gentleman behaves.

This. Or possibly invest in a taser or some blinkers like a caged animal.

No if your husband wants to sit next to you he asks her to swap. Or the person sitting next to you. It's not her duty to offer.

Why didn't you ask the one next to you if they could swap with him?

She'd be better spending the money on therapy.

Grow up.

You sound entitled and insecure

Yes - a few of us quickly deduced the ‘other woman’ had a window seat.

In this instance I don't think anybody has done anything wrong!

The OP and her husband sat in their allocated seats, he struck up conversation with the woman next to her, she didn't want to give up her allocated seat that she'd paid for.

OP is unhappy her husband was talking to another woman. End of story.

Swap a window seat for a middle aisle seat? No way.
Book your tickets earlier if this is a big issue.

I’d be keeping my window seat on a 10-hr flight, sorry OP. I like to lean against the wall to sleep.

kindly, get over it. You do not own him.

In his shoes I'd have put in earphones and closed my eyes to get her to shut up.

But now you know that you have a bit of a jealous streak: book earlier so you can sit together.

I'm an aisle seat person and I wouldn't be swapping for anything else. I also wouldn't offer to swap in this situation anyway, because I don't assume couples necessarily want to sit next to each other. (DP and I aren't bothered - we're either going to be spending 24/7 with each other on holiday for the next 10 days, or we've just done that, so we're not short of each other's company. And both of us just have headphones in on flights anyway.)

I'm not a habitual plane chatter so 10 hours of talk wouldn't have been up my street but I did once have a very enjoyable chat with the man next to me - we happened to share a particular interest and had been to a few of the same places in the city we were leaving.

Did she have a window seat?
Also, she was chatting to him she wasn't performing a lapdance. Some people are just chatty

Id have taken one for the team and switched seats with him because hours of being talked at would have driven my husband crazy but he's too polite to ignore someone whereas I dont give a fuck and would have happily put headphones straight in.

The OP said that the seating was 2x3x2 and that her husband was in the aisle seat of a group of two. The only seat that the woman sitting beside him could have is a window seat.