An airline passenger has caused a stir online after refusing to swap seats with a pregnant woman, with some praising the airline for sticking with “entitled” passengers.
The man, whose username is Michael Donnelly, posted on Reddit earlier this month asking other users to assess whether he was wrong about his situation.
“I was flying a 5+ hour flight solo to visit my family over the holidays. I reserved an eye aisle seat and paid extra,” he wrote.
“Right before boarding, a woman asked me to give up her seat so she could sit closer to the toilet. She was pregnant, but she didn’t seem in any pain,” he continued. He added that while he sympathized with her situation, he thought it was unfair to be asked to leave a seat he had paid for given her medical condition.
The man said he tried to get flight attendants to mediate the situation to no avail after the woman refused to change seats, but this resulted in the anger of his family. sheet. “
Commenters quickly flocked to the author’s defense, with many criticizing the woman for poor planning, entitlement, and affordability.
“She should have booked a different seat of her choice or she wouldn’t have had to board the plane. She probably thought someone was moving so she didn’t have to pay.” , one person wrote.
“The flight attendant who did not intervene is also at fault. At some point, she should have told her to return to her seat,” they added, noting that their reasoning even took into account the user’s medical issues. I explained that I had not done so.
Other users accused the woman of “publicly humiliating herself” and one user said that trying to involve the flight attendant meant she was “guilty and trying to get them replaced”. He said that it is an expression of.
“Because she felt she was entitled to it because she was pregnant. She thought she could use that to her advantage. But then she realized she couldn’t. And of course OP Yes! You reserved and paid for that seat,” one commenter said.
Other pregnant Reddit users defended the original poster.
“As a pregnant woman with Crohn’s disease, I too vote for NTA OP! [not at fault] I have no problem with people offering me pregnancy privileges, but I’m definitely not going to ask for it. Then, knowing my constraints, I book the seats I need,” the woman said.
Another commenter claimed that pregnant women and brides are responsible for “the majority of the bad behavior on this site”, adding: “Both stories are really disgusting.”
After an endless stream of positive messages, the poster agreed with the user who claimed the woman had spotted all the other passengers in the aisle and targeted her.
“I must have seemed the easiest to push down,” he wrote.