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

[Cheeseandlobster]

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

@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 had this once - I asked if one of them would like to swap with me so they could sit together (short flight, I am only very precious about seats on long flights, see above), and they said no and continued to talk over me. So weird.

@workhomesleeprepeat

It is odd! I would feel so awkward talking over someone else. If they didn’t want to talk, fair enough but sit together if you do.

Not on plane but a bus.
I was a teenager at that time going to college at the morning.
I was sitting on a bus, mother and small child sitting behind me.
The child vomited all over my back!
It was horrible.
The woman did nothing and i was scared and embarrassed to say anything as being shy teen.
I run into the bus station toilets and tried to wash the sick of my jacket.
I never forget that all these years on!

@BeingATwatItsABingThing the only thing I could think of was that maybe one really wanted to look out of the window (??) and maybe one needed easy access to the toilet? Odd behaviour.

[quote workhomesleeprepeat]@BeingATwatItsABingThing the only thing I could think of was that maybe one really wanted to look out of the window (??) and maybe one needed easy access to the toilet? Odd behaviour.[/quote]
The man in the aisle didn’t get up once!

BA from Paris. After a couple of hours delay it turned out that the seat directly in front was broken and would not go upright.
The asshole English businessman that was alone in that row insisted on sitting in the broken seat so that he was practically laying in our laps the whole way, centre seat so messed up the entire row behind him. He refused to move.
BA have always been appalling and I never used them again, it was the last straw.

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've been in the position a few times but the couple have always asked to swop and given me a choice which seat I want.

@notacooldad

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've been in the position a few times but the couple have always asked to swop and given me a choice which seat I want.

You got lucky then. I would be like them and would never let someone else sit uncomfortably in the middle but this couple were perfectly happy for me to.

On a flight back to UK from Canada with dd1 5yo and dtds 22 months old and sitting on our laps. Dh and I had to sit one behind the other due to only one additional oxygen mask per row. Not ideal but expected.

Family get on - dh is a Doctor don’t you know, dm and teen dc plus 18 month old. They’re demanding the spare seat as they’ve learned the flight has a spare seat so they want it as their dc cannot sleep unless in his car seat which they’ve brought on with them expecting to brag about dh being a doctor and getting the spare seat they’ve not paid for. They’d purposely booked 2 seats together and one apart hoping to gain a spare seat. That didn’t work out for them. We said nothing in our across the aisle seats. Cabin crew were awesome and pointed out that we had twins plus a 5 yo so they’d like to give us the spare seat. Dm was fuming and they spent the flight with all three of them trying to entertain dc. (Why they didn’t take turns was baffling). Later in the flight I became unwell and passed out so cabin crew got the doctor to come and help. I’m pretty sure that family hated us.

Flight Heathrow to Hong Kong, middle seat - between two very large men who sprawled over my seat. Bad enough, but they were both wearing smokers patches so reeked of nicotine. I git two hours in, felt dizzy from the combination of stale sweat and nicotine and vomited.

This one caught my eye: women are regularly asked to move so that ultra-Orthodox males don't have to sit next to a female. I reckon if they want that privilege they should pay for an empty seat beside them.

www.theguardian.com/business/2020/aug/27/woman-sues-easyjet-after-being-told-to-move-seats-due-to-ultra-orthodox-jewish-men

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.

That used to be a standard tactic for some couples travelling together: pay for priority boarding, as a result get on early and bag an A and C or D and F seat and then then glare at anybody boarding afterwards if as they walked down the aisle they so much at glanced at the vacant centre seat...

@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!

For years we've been flying as a family of 3 - DH has window seat so he can lean against the window and sleep, and I have the aisle seat so I can get to the toilet and have less chance of seeing through the window (hate flying so a glimpse of the tops of mountains isn't good !). DS has always had the middle seat but as he's grown up and it's just been me and DH we've had to rethink. DH has had to give up his window seat!!

Doesn't let them off but I guess you did "invade" their row. It is definitely annoying when the doors are shut and you think you have a spare seat next to you only for some chancer to pop up and take it.

I was sat in an aisle seat next to a couple, there was a young couple sat behind us with their toddler in the middle seat.
Due to the pressure in the cabin when they opened the kids sippy cup some water squirted over our row (only a tiny bit)
The couple behind stood up and started apologising profusely looking embarrassed, I said no worries!
Grumpy couple next to me refused to accept their apology and grumbled about it for the rest of the flight!
Jeeez why try and make someone feel bad, it was an accident!

I flew on a four hour flight last week and had to sit between two people, in a middle seat. The man in the aisle seat was a total arsehole, and wouldn't let me put my elbow on the arm rest at all. He purposely took up as much room as possible and whenever I tried to perch my elbow on it too he shoved it off as hard as he could. He also refused to get up to allow me to use the loo halfway during the flight. He thought I was travelling alone and didn't realise my 6ft 3, 19 stone DH was sitting two rows in front and I loudly told DH what this man had been doing when he was standing at baggage reclaim near us. He soon scarpered! Nasty little man!

13 hour flight from Brazil and I had the middle seat, whilst my DS had the aisle seat. Bloke already sat in his window seat when we got on the flight, but he had his legs and feet in the footwell of my seat. I politely asked him to move his legs and he said ‘Can’t you see how tall I am - I need the leg room’.

Look on his face when I said ‘no, but I can see the male entitlement, so move your bloody legs or I will sit on them’.

Can’t be doing with entitled, rude people, it makes me very stroppy 😂

I flew back from Sydney via Beijing years ago before I realised that actually the cheapest flights are cheap for a reason.

After a 13 hour stop off in a snowy Beijing, I had one of the middle row seats surrounded by Chinese teenagers on what looked like a school trip to the UK. They were so rude, it was the worst flight I've ever endured; sitting on my arm rest, shouting over me, constantly moving around... horrendous.

@BubblyBarbara

Doesn't let them off but I guess you did "invade" their row. It is definitely annoying when the doors are shut and you think you have a spare seat next to you only for some chancer to pop up and take it.

Trust me, I would not have moved seats if it hadn't been for the vomiting which they knew about. They would have known it was for a good reason. Even prior to me moving there were a few eye rolls when this pair moved seats as they were so loud about how awful moving into their allocated seats was

Flying back from Sri Lanka a few years ago, the plane stopped in the Maldives to collect more passengers on the way back. A couple got on in front of us and promptly reclined their seats fully and went to sleep. It was daytime and, judging by the fumes (and the snoring), they had only just finished celebrating. It was now impossible for me (or my husband) to eat a meal, watch a film, or easily slip out of my seat. They ignored every request from the stewardess (or me) to un-recline during the meals. It was a very long and extremely uncomfortable flight.

He also refused to get up to allow me to use the loo halfway during the flight.

I’d have started dry heaving at this point until he moved!

Got off a cruise at Malta to fly back to UK. Most people hadn’t pre-booked seats so we were all checking in.

We were towards the back of the queue and were chatting to others about chances of whether we’d get seated as couples or be split up. Couple in front of us gave us thumbs up that they were together.

We got to desk and asked politely if we could be seated together, check in chap didn’t speak but peered at his screen for a long time then printed our boarding passes and gave them to us without a word.....we looked and DH was in a middle seat on one side of the plane and I was in a middle seat 10 rows back on the other side.

When we all met up at the bar we were (not very) surprised to discover that the 3 couples we were chatting with were all seated together and 2 of them had checked in after us...... DH is Black and we’ve experienced this crap more than once in our 30 years together.

I tried and tried complaining to the Maltese airport authorities and BA but was consistently told that this didn’t happen and it was our own fault for not pre-booking seats....

My favourite ever plane seat story was when I was 15 and flying from one side of Canada to the other on my dad’s frequent flyer points. Because it was points I had to take 3 flights to get from point A to home and one flight was a quick Montreal to Toronto one. Plane was pretty empty. I took my spot in 15f (or whatever the number was, def a window seat) when a woman came to the aisle and told me I was in her seat. I wasn’t, I showed her my boarding card. She had the same number. Just as I was about to say that I’d take the aisle or a seat in the row in front/behind (again, plane was empty!) she snaps my boarding card out of my hand and stomps up a flight attendant demanding to know what a kid was doing in her seat. Flight attendant apologises, says it shouldn’t have happened, takes both cards to figure it out...

Well, wouldn’t you know that my dad’s then-Gold status trumps people who make a big deal out of next to nothing. Flight attendant walks to me with a new boarding card, gives the woman her original card. I took a look and then showed the woman asking “do you think I should go up to 1A now?”

Only an hour flight but I enjoyed the hell of out of my business class seat!

I also flew to Japan (coach again) and sat behind a small girl sat on her own who proceeded to play a game on her iPad throughout the entire flight. With the sound on and no headphones. Apart, that is, from when her father came back to check on her when she turned it off. I asked him why she was sat on her own, and he said it was so he could get some sleep! Fortunately, I now have noise-canceling headphones. My DH was not so fortunate.

We came back in business class and I swore I would never fly coach ever again!

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.

My partner and I do that - book an aisle and a window seat. But if someone comes to sit in the middle of course we move over - last time we offered either window seat or aisle.

Muffins here usually has to sit in the middle seat tho’

My CF experience was on the second leg of the epic flight to Sydney. A little boy and his mother were the only 2 occupants of the row behind me. I was in my usual window seat, curled up against the side of the plane trying to sleep. Every time I managed to drift off, the boy started kicking my seat.

I asked his mother to stop him, and she answered very rudely that “He’s only little” (he was maybe 4 or 5). didn’t say anything to him or swap seats so that he could kick the empty seat next to me.

I suppose I could have moved seats but I couldn’t have managed to sleep in a middle seat and I don’t suppose the person on the aisle would have appreciated me cosying up to him.

Rude parents bring up rude children.