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

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

Shout -
"Do you want me to stand here pissing myself right next to you?"

(I assume you were standing, not asking politely while still sat down?)

And keep shouting.

But neither of them wanted the uncomfortable middle seat!

That’s when I get passive-aggressive and lean forward in rapt attention to my screen or my laptop

Not my seat, but I once saw something similar with someone demanding another passenger move because she was in her seat. It turned out that the first passenger was on the wrong plane! How she managed to get on board is anyone's guess. But it was quite a long time ago.

@Jaxhog

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!

My parents were asked if they wanted to move from their paid for extra legroom seats to be closer to my sister and I. The looks they got when they said no... Clearly people thought they were the worst parents in the world. That was until they saw that my sister and I were 17 and 20. We were flying to Disneyworld Florida so I can understand their assumption that we must have been younger...

@toodlepipsqueaks

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!

What sort of pushover allows this without saying anything? You don't sound safe to be out alone.

I flew to Dubai with my Dad as a teen, the gent seated infront of us had waist long dreadlocks. He sat down and tossed his hair, one long dread fell directly into my Dad's cup of tea. We watched it slowly soak up the liquid, revolting.

Funny when it's not your tea though

I think I've posted about this before on here but anyway.

At five months pregnant my dick of a boss insisted that it was essential I join him on a business trip to the states. It wasn't - it was a client schmooze with a couple of dullards and he wanted company. Anyway the selfish twat booked himself a business ticket and me economy. He apologised saying that he had to fly business and he wanted to keep his BA Card status and needed the points, but the company couldn't justify two club tickets blah blah blah. Whatever, I was happy to be on my own.

I take a seat an a huge man sits next to me who is clearly unwell. He is sweaty and within half an hour of take off, he has thrown up. I start feeling sick and his sick and am already squished, noticeably pregnant, hot etc and have to keep standing up as I know I have to keep moving about because DVT etc.... A lovely air steward asks to speak to me and she apologises that she can't move me as the flight is full. I assure her that I am ok and ask if I can walk through into business as my colleague is there and I might feel a bit less claustrophobic. She says she will accompany me and when we get there and see sees my boss, she very loudly 'suggests' that he must have been disappointed not to be able to get two seats in business on account of the flight being full, but that given the fact that I am pregnant and struggling, she will 'allow' us to swap seats for the duration of the flight.

He smiled tightly and said 'of course'.

I did lots of 'are you sure? are you sure?' but of course, he could say nothing. God I enjoyed that flight.

@SlightlyJaded

I think I've posted about this before on here but anyway.

At five months pregnant my dick of a boss insisted that it was essential I join him on a business trip to the states. It wasn't - it was a client schmooze with a couple of dullards and he wanted company. Anyway the selfish twat booked himself a business ticket and me economy. He apologised saying that he had to fly business and he wanted to keep his BA Card status and needed the points, but the company couldn't justify two club tickets blah blah blah. Whatever, I was happy to be on my own.

I take a seat an a huge man sits next to me who is clearly unwell. He is sweaty and within half an hour of take off, he has thrown up. I start feeling sick and his sick and am already squished, noticeably pregnant, hot etc and have to keep standing up as I know I have to keep moving about because DVT etc.... A lovely air steward asks to speak to me and she apologises that she can't move me as the flight is full. I assure her that I am ok and ask if I can walk through into business as my colleague is there and I might feel a bit less claustrophobic. She says she will accompany me and when we get there and see sees my boss, she very loudly 'suggests' that he must have been disappointed not to be able to get two seats in business on account of the flight being full, but that given the fact that I am pregnant and struggling, she will 'allow' us to swap seats for the duration of the flight.

He smiled tightly and said 'of course'.

I did lots of 'are you sure? are you sure?' but of course, he could say nothing. God I enjoyed that flight.

That stewardess rocks

During take off from New York to Chicago the selfish cow in front put her seat back fully - only a 80 min daytime flight but space was very restricted.

Unfortunately, this caused my back to go into spasm leaving me repeatedly knocking the back of her chair with my foot due to nerve damage - well that was my reason...

She called over the lovely air stewardess who looked at me and asked what could be done to stop the kicking - i responded that she had reclined unexpectedly durng take off causing the spasm but if her seat was up a bit, my foot would not be able to connect with it.

Epic air stewardess turns to rude woman and says, "Well, it is a very short daytime flight and reclining this far is not absolutely necessary so I would suggest you put your seat up". Woman's face was a picture as she put her seat upright.

Just because a seat can recline does not mean it should be done be!

I think I'd enjoy a thread of air stewardess stories! :)

I never wear shorts on a plane, I hate my legs sticking to the seats, but we had a late afternoon flight and it was too hot to wear anything other than shorts. Got on the plane, DH had a lady with under 1 year old sat next to him, fine, until baby fell asleep with his head on DH's arm leaving him unable to move. Baby's mum had no interest in moving her child's head from a strangers arm. Oh how I laughed. Until the lady in front decided to throw her meter long dreadlocks behind her onto my bare legs.

All in all, shit flight and karma definitely got me for laughing at DH.

@AntFarm

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!

He didn't 'allow' you? Wtf? Why didn't you just call the staff and they would make him move?

Please tell me you didn't just keep sitting needing to pee

What is it with people flicking their hair about and propping their feet up?!? So repulsive!

I've encountered a few child back-kickers and male thigh-spreaders on planes . A discreet word with the steward has never failed yet.

@Roomba Can you explain about the PL form? We are going to Portugal this week and I have one ready to fill in, but do I hand it in on the plane or before or what? It's not ever so clear. Thanks!

@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.

You didn't have too. You could have suggested one of you move.

On a 5 hour flight last year there was a massive family of about 20 who obviously hadn't bothered to pay the £6 for seats together. After several people moving to accommodate their dc 2 of them ended up in the row in front of me. In the aisle seat was a woman who had moved to accommodate them. Anyway she fell asleep and one of the family spent the entire flight with his arm over the back of her seat leaning over her to talk to other members of the 'family' with his armpit right in her face, literally about 2 inches from her face. She was oblivious but it gave me the rage the entire flight.

@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!

I always do it on a really long haul flight when we are visiting family in Australia, I hate being hemmed in so don't like the window or the middle seat and DS likes the window seat so we book them both, like I say we tend to book one row behind the other so we aren't causing an issue for the person in the middle.

A friend was traveling long haul, and there were 2 incredibly obnoxious men sitting in the next row. One of them was so rude to everyone, that he managed to upset every passenger around him, but he saved the worst of his behaviour for the air crew, who were apparently really polite in the face of some pretty unpleasant abuse. Eventually the cabin was darkened and the pair took off their trainers, falling into an alcohol assisted deep sleep. My friend was so incensed by the behaviour, he quietly removed one of the man's shoes and put it in the bin in the loo. For added amusement, he put a glass of red wine on Mr obnoxious' tray. You can imagine what happened when he stirred.... All over a white tracksuit. It was only as they came in to leave that the missing shoe became apparent and he had to hobble off the plane in one trainer.

The women in front of my DH and I refused to put their chairs up when our food came so we couldn’t use the tables, even worse than that one of them was saying things like ‘I’m fucked if I’m going to sit up for them’ we hadn’t even said a word, the cabin crew thankfully told her but you can imagine that went down like cold sick

Am due to fly tomorrow so this thread is giving me dread!!

Probably the worst flight I had was coming back from Spain with food poisoning. I felt absolutely grim. When we got to our seats the woman in the aisle huffed loudly that she thought she had the row to herself. Anyway she slowly got up to allow us in, I told her I wasn't well and might need to get out to the loo a lot if she wanted to let me have the aisle seat to save her moving. She refused to swap, fair enough, but complained loudly every time she had to get up to let me out.

I feel your pain. My father became very ill on holiday and had to use a wheelchair - therefore when we flew back the people in the extra legroom seats were asked to move for him, my god you would think they had been asked to give up their first born child!

My OH and I book window and aisle seats too, as I need a piss approximately every ten minutes and have high DVT risk and he likes to look out the window. We barely speak to each other though, I read my book and he sits there with his noise cancelling headphones on all flight. We usually get a couple of surprised looks at the end of the flight when the person in the middle realises we are together.

Oh also once had a man start eating what looked (and smelt!) like a rotisserie chicken mid flight which he pulled out his bag! He had blood on his shorts.

My husband and I were flying back from NY and I had booked seats as I love a window seat and he likes the aisle to stretch his legs. I got to our seats to find a 20 something in the free middle seat (no probs) but her boyfriend in my window seat. I politely showed them my ticket at which point the girl refused to look at me and tucked her head into her boyfriend, whimpering (best word I have for it).
He explained she is terrified of flying and they need to sit together so he will sit in my seat and I can take his elsewhere as they hadnt booked seats (despite knowing her terror)
I said I would like to sit in the seat I had booked as my husband is in the same row and I like a window seat, which the one they wanted me to swap to was not. They huffed and puffed and made a huge deal out of him having to move and asking the stewardess to find 1 person who would swap so she could sit next to him.
I had a sneaky look at them when I went to the loo during the flight and she was laughing her head off, terror apparently forgotten. I had a sense they were trying it on but what really got me was the entitled way he told me he was going to be sitting in my seat but I could kindly have his. Plus they took my blanket and headphones!