to ask someone to move their child out of my plane seat

[kipperssippers]

more of a WWYD then AIBU but...
i booked the seat by the window as i always do and when i got to my seat a child around 8 was in my seat with her mum beside her.
When i got there i told the mother that the window seat is my seat and she said her child wanted the window seat to look out, i then replied then you should of booked one.
I didnt want to cause a scene but the women made out i'm an arsehole for asking her kid to move as she had never been on a flight and wanted to look outside.
I did give in and stayed pissed off for 7 hours in my non window seat.

what would you of done in this situation?

I bet if Cats did join NM they'd LOVE "A Child's Joy" They'd be all "Awww HUN, that's so sweet!" instead of laughing hysterically like we all did

Roussette I think it sounds like people are being difficult for the sake of it

Isodora why do you take pride in being nasty on here?

'Is that not just what people do?'

Why no, it isn't. I pay money to chose a seat I prefer. If asked to move, I say I will for a similar seat in business or Premium Economy. If one is not forthcoming, then I sit in the seat I booked.

I have noticed the crew always ask women on their own first. How fucking sexist.

'Experience first hand how we deal with train door blockers.

None of this PA tutting/eye rolling shite up here, I can assure you.

High probability your buggy would end up on the tracks though.'

Too right.

Same round here Bitchy
Buggy on tracks, closely followed by bags and useless friend. OP could stay on because she's holding a baby, but only if she moves away from the door and stops acting like an entitled arse.

I booked a flight a v short notice this summer - in the taxi on the way to the airport - was totaly screwed over price for it.
I was last to board as I needed assisted boarding, as I made my way down the aisle I could tell their were no empty seats but as I drew closer I realised there was a musical instrument where I was supposed to sit and the owner just kept shrugging his shoulders at me.
The staff tried to help but between us we didn't have a common language and in the end I sat on the back row. No where near where I was supposed to be because the staff didn't want an argument.

Really? I would have made an enormous fuss. No way would I tolerate cabin crew not supporting me in having access to my seat (unless the accommodated me in business instead)

As a musician I understand his instrument may be valuable - hence he can pay for a seat for it. I think I may have been able to get my point across using mime

Nope. They aren't. They want that seat for a reason. And it wasn't asked for nicely. If it was a short hop from Belfast to London, of course I would let a child have my seat and look out the window. If they wanted to lean across me on a longhaul flight whilst we took off, of course they can.

If they wanted to show me their toys, bring it on, if I'm not sleeping. If a baby wanted to play peek-a-boo, of course I'd love to do that, if I wasn't sleeping. If I could help a Mum on a longhaul flight, I would.

I just think you've got an absolute cheek to make out we're all horrible for not giving up a window seat on a 7 hour flight. And then to say all those awful words about what we're all like. You don't know us, you don't know what we do for others in RL. You just like to pick at people and make out you're a saint.

miss my aunt was a flight attendant her entire career. One time, there was a passenger who brought a cuddly toy, a frog, and sat it on a seat, spoke to it, used another voice to simulate the frog speaking back, etc. He didn't want to move it for the ticketed passenger. So they asked him to produce a ticket for the frog. He didn't have one. No ticket, no seat. He moved the frog.

Cats

People have outlined several reasons why they might pay to choose a specific seat (window or aisle). For example:

1. They prefer it.
2. They will be able to sleep.
3. They will be sick unless they sit there (and seven hours of puking is not "an inconvenience").
4. They will suffer a panic attack unless they sit there (I used to have severe anxiety on a flight - there's NO WAY I'd have been separated from my now husband).
5. They need to be able to move freely or otherwise be in pain.

Do you think a child's joy trumps ALL of those?

Cats Because My Joy takes precedence over some random Child's Joy any day!

I wouldn't give up my seat. I am organized enough to think about seating,
Like fuck am I going to give this up. I don't have to justify why I want that seat. It isn't my fault if others couldn't be arsed to.

Even less so because of a family I know. They never ever pre-book a thing.. If this was in the school holidays would have suspected it was them. They are always the couple that are on the honeymoon on a plane. They've been on 5
Honey moons in the past year.
Their child has never flown before despite
Several times. Or some other sob story about how they couldn't book them all together.

They do it with trains as well.

Roussette I'm not picking I just think culturally it's not very child friendly or stranger friendly here. You know how like in other countries everyone will speak to everyone and nothing is too much trouble. You also find most of these countries are less fussed about times and have a better work life divide.

Whereas the UK is standoffish and rigid by comparison. It's also quite negative and I personally don't like itv

I don't think nice people call other people arseholes and miserable twats or stop them getting off at their designated train stop.

It

Cats Because My Joy takes precedence over some random Child's Joy any day!

Do you not think that's horrible?

Afraid instrument would have been moved by me into the isle.

Woman up!

is that just what people do

Nope only wierdos.

Where are these "other countries" then?

Ireland, Italy, Spain, Greece and to some extent France are the ones that immediately stick out

Private no, but they're similar

I give up now Cats, with that last post. OK. I get it. The rest of the world is wonderful and we English are crap. You've made that quite clear.

Get your head round the fact there is good and bad in every country. Work / life divide? Have you been to the US? They have 2 weeks holiday a year.

Rigid? Standoffish? Have you actually travelled?

Have you ever been to yorkshire or newcastle? The warmest friendliest people imaginable. Not all. Like I said, there are idiots in every town all over the world.

You are the one sounding rigid. You aren't open to opinions. You have a fixed idea about the English and nothing but nothing will change that opinion. Thank the lord I am more open, I couldn't live my life like you do.

Do you not think that's horrible?

Fuck's sake, woman.

No.

Or naw as we say in your soon to be adoptive homeland.

Private similar attitudes, slight differences in Wales and NINnot been to Scotland so perhaps I should leave scotland out of it