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

DH and I never do that, we'd rather sit together than have a stranger sitting between us!

@SerenDippitty how do you decide who has to sit in the middle seat? do you take it in turns ?

@Iverunoutofnames

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.

Glad they were sent to the back, but as the flight hadn't even started boarding yet, I don't think they were late.

I flew out on my own to stay with a friend, who then flew back to the UK with me to stay with her family. Only a short flight, about 90 minutes. We were both adults, so not bothered about paying extra to sit together on our flight home. We lucked out and managed to sit next to each other anyway.

Then a lady came along with her teenage child and said to us "You will have to move so my daughter and I can sit together". I replied politely that I wouldn't be moving. She got a member of cabin crew, who told her we didn't have to. Mum and daughter eventually sat down after much faff and enough goodbyes as if one was off to the moon, not sat 10 feet away for an hour.

The irony was, if it had been a younger child, and she'd asked nicely, we would have been fine to move.

@makingmammaries

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.

He was an absolute twat! You are entitled to recline your seat, although I don't do it on short haul. I do get annoyed at people who don't put the seat up during mealtimes and takeoff/landing though, and always tell them to do it straightaway.

@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.

Cant you swap seats so they sat together?

@FaffingForEngland.. that’s not funny actually.
Also either they tools off their trainers or your friend removed a shoe, can’t be both.

Took not tools

Unless ur in business class then of course there’s going to be no space

[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]
@workhomesleeprepeat - I think some couples do this because they think that people will avoid the middle seat, so they will end up with a free seat between them - they’ll get three seats and pay for two.

If I am totally honest I would be pissed off if I’d thought I had a spare seat next to me and someone took it after everyone had been seated but you did so for understandable reasons and I’d have kept my disappointment to myself. They sound like brutes anyway.

I got separated from my husband on our flight to Hawaii as they had too many babies onboard and you can’t have more than one per row apparently, anyway the baby next to him cried constantly as babies do and the man in front of DH kept turning around to tut so DH had a go at him for his troubles, I knew I married him for a reason 😀

You are so right!

@Roomba - amazed she got past checking with no PLF

Not me but a friend recently came back on a flight to UK. The people In the row in front were being obnoxious to the crew... demanding excessive alcohol, kept pulling masks down, swearing etc. Anyway they asked for a fizzy drink , friend saw the steward take it out, swears he didn’t do anything to it but when person opened it, it exploded and the sweary man was covered in fizzy pop. I hope the steward had done something tbh, but if not karma really is a bitch!

Flying back from Crete last year

My younger DD is a nervous flyer so we always pay to pre-book our seats to ensure we don’t get separated and she’ll always have at least one of us with her

When we were booking the extra leg room seats were available on the flight out and the way back so we paid the extra and booked them. DD window seat, then me, then DD1, then DH across the aisle in the aisle seat, leaving 2 empty ones beside him.

Plane was pretty full but we were all sorted in our seats when a family of 2 adults and 2 teens board, obviously hadn’t pre-booked and pitch an absolute shit fit when they realise they’re going to be separated.

They saw the empty seats beside DH and demanded that he and DD1 move so they could sit together. We refused - a) we’d paid to pre-book so we could sit together and b) we’d paid extra for the extra leg room so no.

They made a huge fuss, cabin crew weren’t having any of it so they eventually piped down.

The mum and one of the teens beside DH spent the whole flight bitching and moaning about how entitled and rude we were

They were on the same flight back a week later. The flight wasn’t so full so they were sitting together in the row behind us - and complained the whole flight about how we were selfish for booking the extra leg room row again

What is wrong with some people, I’ve been separated before as we didn’t realise you could pre book (dolly daydreams that we were) but that was on us. I’m also v short so would look hilarious in the extra leg room seat

I like sitting in the aisle seat on long haul flights, and had booked my seat for a Paris to Tokyo flight. This young couple gets on, one of them assigned a seat in the middle next to me, the other in the middle in the aisle in front. He asks me to move to the middle in front so they can sit next to each other. I said no and that I prefer the aisle seat (never gonna move willingly to a middle seat on a long haul flight). He seemed taken aback that I said no and carried on whining about how he wanted to sit next to his girlfriend. I kept quiet, anyway about an 80 year old lady in front of me moved instead, which he gladly let

Went on hols last year with dh, & 2 dcs. They sat together on one row & I sat across the aisle from them in the aisle seat. Seats beside me were empty and I was smiling at dh, looking forward to a super comfy flight, when at the last minute, a young man came down and asked if he could sit in the seat beside me as there was a crying baby up the front. I said okay and he came back with his girlfriend. They were all hands over each other and snogging the entire time. dh had a good laugh at my expense.

Not an aeroplane one, but once saw a couple being asked to move, on a train, because they were sitting in seats that had been booked by another couple. The air was heavy with the huffing and puffing that went on, from the couple who had to move. There were plenty of other seats, but they fancied these particular ones.
Lots of passive aggressive 'well enjoy your seats' and so on, as they took their time about moving. The couple who had actually booked the seats were nothing but pleasant and polite throughout, and thanked them for moving.

I had booked an aisle seat for my 9 hour flight. Got on and found a middle-aged man sitting in it (I was 20something female). He explained to me that he didn't like sitting in the centre seat; I said I didn't either and that's why I'd booked the aisle seat, and asked him to move. He did, grumbled and fidgeted, then while the plane was still boarding got up and walked off down the aisle - I assumed to speak to a flight attendant.

The flight finished boarding and no sign of him. A flight attendant came up to my row and asked me and the window seat passenger if we were named X - neither of us was. After some consternation amongst the crew, it transpired that X was the man who'd been sat in my seat, and he'd left the plane and gone back into the airport and disappeared! They didn't find him through making announcements, so we all had to get back off the plane and watch while they took it out to the middle of the runway area and surround it with emergency vehicles while they located all his luggage to remove it from the plane. We were delayed by more than two hours, all apparently because Mr Entitled didn't get the aisle seat he felt should have been his!

I've got a train one too.

A group of us were on an overnight train in Europe (can't remember exactly where, we were interrailing). We had paid extra for a private sleeper cabin. We get on and discover the whole cabin is already occupied by another group, who (grumpy because we've woken them up) refuse to move, saying people are sat in their (standard!) seats.

We go up the train looking for staff but cant find any, so we head back to our cabin to try asking them to move again but they point blank refuse. We find some standard seats (not together) and tell them to go and sit in them but to no avail, they should be able to together as they booked blah blah, so despite paying twice as much for the cabin we end up sitting in the standard carriage that's noisy and stays brightly lit for the entire night instead of our dark cosy train beds that I was so looking forward to. The journey was about 7 hours.

Still pisses me off 10 years later.

@Jaxhog

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.

I see this sometimes on trains. I take Amtrak in the US quite frequently and always pay for the upgrade to business class. The last time I traveled from NYC to Baltimore a woman got on after me and plonked herself down in business class. When the conductor checked her ticket it was for business class, but for a train later that day making the same stops.

She had gotten to the train station early and didn't see any reason to not just board the earlier train. The conductor had to explain to her that all seats are reserved, even in coach, and while there might be an open seat now in business class it would be completely full when passengers boarded at the next stop. He found her an open seat in coach, much to her dismay.

Lots of CF'ers (usually men) wander into business class, say to themselves "hey, this is posh, I'll just sit in here" only to be told to move by the conductor. I once saw two young men simply refuse to move until the conductor told them that if they didn't move back to coach he'd radio ahead to the next station and have the railway police waiting there to arrest them for theft of services. They moved.

@PablosHoney

If I am totally honest I would be pissed off if I’d thought I had a spare seat next to me and someone took it after everyone had been seated but you did so for understandable reasons and I’d have kept my disappointment to myself. They sound like brutes anyway.

But you would have no right to be pissed off, so it doesn't matter if anyone does it for understandable reasons. You didn't pay for the third seat.

We approached passport control in Heathrow- the bit with the regular staff where they check you're a passenger, not the bit with the police.
The bloke dealing with our queue was talking to his colleague who was dealing with the next queue.
..."And let me tell you why I hate the French!" He said to her as he held out his hand for our passports.

Reader, my husband is French.

I complained to Heathrow about this. It's racism. They didn't give a hoot.

😂😂😂 Oh man not you @cadent. I didn’t say it would be reasonable I’m just being honest, I didn’t pay for any seat on this hypothetical plane.