An airplane seat one- not had one of these for a while

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Was flying back from holiday yesterday in an aisle seat. There was a mother and daughter on the plane, the daughter being about 14. They had originally been sat in someone else's extra legroom seats at the front and had to then move to the row behind me where there was an empty aisle seat. The daughter was very vocal about being unhappy with how little room she was going to have then insisted she had to have her suitcase at her feet which the cabin crew did not police.

Shortly after take off the woman in the seat next to me started vomiting. I am emetaphobic so as soon as I could I moved to the aisle seat behind.

Well you would think I was devil incarnate
The daughter and the mum made passive aggressive comments for a lot of the flight to each other. They wanted to stretch out and sleep and now they couldn't. The daughter said she couldn't handle this. They both had their suitcases at their feet so the mum's shoes were in my leg space, but no effort was made to move them. Lots of pointed elbowing when I was trying to sleep and just general whinging. I was damned if I was going to react and just ignored them. It was clear this entitled mum was raising an equally as entitled daughter. They must have known there was a strong chance there would be someone else in their space but they were just so annoyed by it.

When they got off the mum pulled a woman's hair quite hard by mistake but I heard her laughing about it with her daughter in baggage reclaim as the woman had pulled her up on pushing in shortly after so this apparently was funny.

I am sure I wasn't unreasonable but it would be great to hear about other entitled passengers. I I have always loved hearing these stories

Oh dear. 🤦‍♀️.

I remember back in Jabuary. We were flying business class to Venice. My husband had the window seat and the guy behind him thought he could put his feet up & onto hubby's arm rest. Hubby stopped that immediately by elbowing his feet & putting the arm rest up. Hahaha. Nothing was said either!

Oh they sound a treat 😂 you definitely weren't being unreasonable!

I remember my first long haul flight, the person next to me had brought a blanket and several pillows. Fair enough, I thought,
until she decided to get comfy by snuggling up and putting her head on my chest (whilst still awake)! She couldn't be shifted til we landed almost 10 hours later...DP thought it was hilarious!

@toodlepipsqueaks why you didn’t throw her off you?!! Or ask to move seats?

My worst experience was a small child kicking my seat the entire length of the 12 hour flight and I was a timid teenager who didn’t want to say anything in case his parents got mad.

A few years ago I was travelling back to the UK as my dad had died. The plane company boarded priority passengers first, then the general population. I'm disabled and walk with a rollator so was told to go first. On my way down the tunnel I was overtaken by a woman with a pushchair with a 3 or 4 year old in it. I'm quite slow and she was legging it.

When I got to the plane she was sat in one of the front seats looking rather smug, although I didn't really get why. Then the crew took her pram out of the in-cabin storage, put my rollator there and started labelling her pushchair for hold baggage. She went nuts. She was there first. Her pram was there first. DISCRIMINATION!!! In the end someone who looked like the captain told her to sit down, shut up or get off.

Who does that? Who tries to force a disabled person to walk to baggage collection without their walking aid for their own convenience. My dad had died just 4 hours ago and I was dealing with this shit. Thankfully the crew (BA) were wonderful. I think they could tell from my and my kids' demeanour that this was an emergency flight for a grieving family.

I took a 3 day train trip across Australia. Behind me was a girl about the same age as me (early 20s). She kept her feet bare (fine) but kept kicking my seat, propping them up on the window and poking them through the edge of my seat so they were literally an inch from my face. In the end I icily asked her to keep her feet on the floor.

Kindly asking a woman if the seat was free next to her and her child so I could sit next to my child from across the aisle. She refused, I later noticed a very large passenger was seated next to them anyway by cabin crew. Oh how I smiled on my way past of the toilet.

As soon as the flight to America took off, the woman sitting next to me leant forward and reclined her child’s seat. The child was sat in front of me and proceeded to sit up for the whole flight (away from the backrest) to be able to see her TV screen better so there was no point in her seat being reclined. Like a PP, I was about 17 so not brave enough to say anything.

Me and DH we’re flying first class (saved for 2 years to go for our 21st) and had pre booked our seats. We were in the third and fourth seat from the wardrobe and toilet. Couple comes in, looks at their seats and goes back to the air hostess. The air hostess then comes back and asks us if we would mind moving and when I asked why she said because they (pointed at couple) would rather they weren’t so close to the toilet. I smiled and said then they should have booked their seats in advance and we wouldn’t be moving. Queue a 9 hour flight with them grumbling about it the whole way and the wife giving me funny looks. People are very strange!

I’ve just remembered another one.

On an EasyJet flight with no allocated seating. I got one of the last remaining seats in the middle of a row of three. Thought nothing of it until the man in the aisle seat and the woman in the window seat started talking over me and passing things between them. They were married and I had to sit awkwardly in between them for the whole flight.

This was 14 years ago but we had booked a seat towards the front and paid extra for a baby basket thing that's hooks onto the walled area. Two very large ladies were sat there when we boarded so I asked them to move. They refused and the cabin crew insisted I just take their seats instead.
I pointed out I had a two month old so had paid extra, the two ladies were very loud and not pleased but I stood my ground and they finally moved.
My oh was insisting I let it be, but I don't see why we should have been uncomfortable for the whole flight when wed paid extra for the cot.

I remember a couple turning up late for a flight, but they ran right to the front of boarding queue.
Unfortunately for them boarding was done by boarding pass number, so in fact they would be last. They went bananas about how ‘they were first’, very calm staff pointed out they weren’t and to go sit down.

@BeingATwatItsABingThing, cheeky fuckers couples are always doing that. Feel sorry for the people who end up between them but glad they didn't get the full row to themselves!

@BeingATwatItsABingThing

I’ve just remembered another one.

On an EasyJet flight with no allocated seating. I got one of the last remaining seats in the middle of a row of three. Thought nothing of it until the man in the aisle seat and the woman in the window seat started talking over me and passing things between them. They were married and I had to sit awkwardly in between them for the whole flight.

I'd have offered to swap seats with one of them.

Two weeks ago - a woman screaching hysterically, banging and throwing stuff around as we were at the gate for boarding a flight to Greece. Easyjet staff had checked her completed Passenger Locator Form (for covid tracking) and spotted she'd only filled in her own details - she'd omitted to put in any details for her husband and children! The form was very clear and simple, no idea how she missed them out.

In the end her husband told her to calm down, get on the plane and he'd 'sort it'. She she stomped onto the plane, shouting and banging. Well her husband couldn't sort it, the form has to be done 48 hrs in advance, so they wouldn't let him or the kids board. Cue more screaming and threats while the woman was removed from the plane and we all had to wait for their suitcases to be found and offloaded! I'm amazed the police weren't brought in tbh, maybe they were after she left the plane.

It could have been worse for them, if easyjet hadn't spotted it they would have got to Greece then been turned back at border control. They were very stringent at checking forms and have refused entry to lots of people already due to this.

We were on a long haul flight, 13 hours. The person in front of me reclined their seat as soon as they sat down and kept it like that for the whole flight including during meals. Cabin crew repeatedly asked them to put it back up (meal and snack times) which they did and then put it back down again. When they fell asleep the cabin crew put the seat as upright as they could

But neither of them wanted the uncomfortable middle seat!

@BeingATwatItsABingThing

I’ve just remembered another one.

On an EasyJet flight with no allocated seating. I got one of the last remaining seats in the middle of a row of three. Thought nothing of it until the man in the aisle seat and the woman in the window seat started talking over me and passing things between them. They were married and I had to sit awkwardly in between them for the whole flight.

I book an aisle and a window as that's what we both prefer when travelling with my older teenager, however being a teenager he plugs into his music and doesn't communicate. Usually I book ones on two rows so people won't feel awkward in between the two of us but when that's not available the only things passed over are the food trays from the cabin crew and that would happen anyway.

If the row you left and that soltiary person in it I'd have suggested if they wanted 2 per row one of them could always move and have your seat!

@SerenDippitty

They were sat down first so they clearly didn’t want to sit in the middle seat.

@TheSeedsOfADream

That is the only positive I took from the flight.

I’d paid extra for an aisle seat (13 hour flight and since DC I have to go to the loo pretty frequently anyway). I got all settled in when there was this big ruckus in business class. The flight attendant appeared with this old lady who’d been yelling she had a business class ticket (she didn’t) and was refusing to move into general seating (where I was). Her ticket was for the centre seat beside me. The stewardess told me she’d be soooo grateful if I moved into the centre seat and gave this lady my aisle seat as the flight was in danger of being delayed. This was said with everyone watching me so of course I had to say yes Old lady sat down, and ranted for ages about the lack of service nowadays. No word of thanks.

She then had to stand up every hour or so to let me out to go to the toilet anyway.

I didn't realise that was a thing, booking the window and aisle seats rather than two seats together. DH and I never do that, we'd rather sit together than have a stranger sitting between us!

@toffeecashews

That’s fine if you’re not talking across the middle person. The middle seat is the worst (especially when you don’t know your neighbouring passengers) because you have to sit completely upright for the whole flight. It’s not an issue for my family at the moment because we would take up the whole row and I will sit in the middle because DD likes to look out of the window and I can lean on DH.

EasyJet flight when I was 5 months pregnant. Knowing that the plane was close to destination, I reclined my seat for ten minutes’ shut-eye. The entitled penis-carrier behind immediately grabbed the top of the seat and started shaking and kicking it hard. He stopped only when I loudly asked him how long he intended to continue kicking a pregnant woman in the back.

Omg OP they sound like a right pair.

I used to travel a lot and always book aisle seats. One day I had settled into my seat on a very full flight, but seat next to me was empty. Last couple to get on board, woman was keen to sit together, man didn't seem to care.

Turns out woman was sitting next to me. She asked if I would move so she could sit with her bf. I said if he had a aisle seat then yes of course. She said oh yes yes - I looked over a few rows back and he very much did not have an aisle seat. He was in the middle.

So I said - no sorry. Well you would have thought I had shit in her lap. She had a real go at me, and then at the stewardess when they couldn't seat them together either.

She then spent the first 2 hours of the flight passive-aggressively getting out of her seat every 20 mins, I assume to drive me out of it as it were. Every time she asked to get up to get past me I gave her a big smile and said 'of course babe no worries'.

OMG she was sooo annoyed with me I could feel it radiating off her. I just put on my headphones and enjoyed my films and snacks.

@SerenDippitty

I didn't realise that was a thing, booking the window and aisle seats rather than two seats together. DH and I never do that, we'd rather sit together than have a stranger sitting between us!

It was a free for all getting on. No pre-booked tickets unfortunately or I would have booked to sit with my family.