Would you give up your plane seat?

[Tinkerblonde1]

https://www.heart.co.uk/lifestyle/man-refuses-swap-plane-seats-mum-baby/?fbclid=IwAR1sZIyQoCtwBcGd5iCtn7U6YLstt_H9sPDd9UkiSej-6Qwq2qWvvB0xqL4

It has been done before but with holidays happening again this seems to keep appearing over the last few weeks.

To me it depends but if its an airline where you pay for seats and you choose not to. Then surely its on you if you are seated away from husband/wife while you have the kids.

I think how I was approached would be a factor in whether or not I agreed.

Why didn't she offer her own extra leg room seat to the person next to her husband so she could move next to him?

nope if you want to sit together pay for them

Quite

Yeah- if she'd asked the person next to her husband to swap they'd almost certainly have said yes, so she's just being a CF.

Exactly

A long flight and if I'd paid for extra legroom I would only give it up if someone was taken ill/heart attack. On a short flight with normal seating if I was travelling alone and someone wanted to sit with children or partner I would not mind swapping.

I wouldn’t because I would have paid extra to be seated with my son (single mum). As a solo traveller I wouldn’t bother paying extra and would likely swop if someone asked.

I don't think there is a problem with her asking once. However, getting arsey and involving the crew is not on.

I wouldn't move unless to an equivalent or better seat. Pay to pre-book the seats or take your chances and live with the result.

How many more of these threads must we have? This has been done to death.

No.

Pay for your own seats, tightarse.

It annoys me that the flight crew pandered to the woman and found other seats.

she could have given the seat + bassinet to her husband and sat in the 2nd row.

It would help if airlines opened up seat booking first to people who might have specific needs - people with disabilities, babies, small children, and their carers.

so those of us with no children always end up in the middle seats? fuck that.

Couldn't the wife with baby have moved to the second row and offered her seat to the passenger sitting next to her husband.

I've travelled long haul with a baby you need the bulkhead for the bassinet and airlines do try to accommodate but we did have problems as one airline didn't allow prebooking we couldn't pay for the seats together.
Thankfully a woman took one look at us with a baby and asked to be moved so my husband was able to come forward.

A upset baby on a flight is a nightmare for everyone though so I would probably switch for the sanity of everyone!

No i agree with him. How cheeky to moan at him for refusing to move out of the seats he paid for.

by all means you can ask, but you cannot moan or be nasty when you do not get what you want.
people plan, i have severe anxiety, i would not move out of my seats.

I wouldn't have moved. The couple with the baby were foolish not to have paid the extra to ensure their needs would be met.

Anyway, her husband was only sitting just behind her. Why would that have stopped him from helping with the baby during the flight? You can always hand over every now and then, and take turns at feeding (if using formula), nappy changing and entertainment.

I did that once, moved back to the second row with a toddler. I'm sure the people we swapped to accommodate regretted that one. 13 month old could not sit still in the small space and the back of their seat got banged a bit on the regular. When it was dark and they tried to sleep I put the little light on to deal with DD and try to keep her quiet so as not to disturb them. They were cross about that too. Such is life in economy.

I honestly think this women thought 'if you dont ask you dont get' and really thought she was more entitled as she had a baby. There are plenty of people like this around these days.

The paying of seats I just dont understand. Pay up when you book or accept that you will have the seats others dont want. I am fed up with people like this and they are everywhere!

A number of years ago I was on a Virgin flight where a women wouldnt sit down until her teen son sat next to the family. He looked totally bored and horrified at the same time. She said the plane wasnt going anywhere until it had been sorted.

In the end the Virgin crew bribed someone to move. Its not right though.

I am keeping an eye on the other wing!

Exactly this.

@Franklin12 if you don't ask you don't get sure, and definitely more entitled because she had a baby.

But then to get cabin crew involved who probably feel awkward asking someone who's paid and has pre-booked seats. That's an arsey move.

If it was a parent who'd been separated from her child then yes but in this case it was the couple who had been separated - the child was sat with a parent. I've been separated from my child and the stewards wouldn't get involved it was up to me to try and sort it out with other passengers.

Cheeky cow. So the man would have to be cramped and not sit with his wife and be out of pocket? Nah. If she really wanted to sit next to her husband she should have offered to swap with someone in her husband's row.

Travelling is a luxury and not a necessity.

I also sat next to a family once in the row of 4 (aisle seat). When I went to the bathroom they used my seat to change their baby (boak!). They tried to do it quickly but I came back quickly.