A PLANE passenger has divided opinion after she asked a dad to move his child out of the window seat she had bought on a flight.
The unnamed woman, 22, was travelling on a long-haul flight, due to last around 8 hours.
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She took to Reddit’s AITA? (am I the a**hole) forum to explain the situation, writing as the subject: “AITA for taking my correct seat?”
“I (22F) am traveling internationally today,” she began.
“It’s an 8-9hour flight and I’m travelling alone. Leaving my family this time has been hard and I’ve been crying on and off the entire day.
“I had a window seat booked for my flight and I was looking forward to it.
“When I got there, a child was sitting in my seat and her dad in the middle seat.
“I looked at the dad and pointed at the window seat saying that I think it’s my seat expecting him to move.”
The user then explained that the tot’s parent gestured to the aisle’s available seat.
She continued: “He looked at me and said she’s a child and pointed at the aisle seat suggesting I take it.
“Perplexed, I did and had mentioned this to my family.”
Over a phone call, the user’s father told her over a phone call to “hold her ground” and instructed her to insist that the father move his daughter to her allocated seat.
After successfully navigating her way past the “crying girl” to her correct seat, she concluded the post: ” I’m in my seat and I’m also sitting back so she can see out the window.
“Her dad has made one or two snide remarks about me wanting my seat so I just wanted to know, AITA for insisting on sitting in my seat?”
The incident attracted near-unanimous reaction for the user’s behaviour.
One wrote: “Nobody is ever TA (the a**hole) for sitting in the seat they were assigned. Full stop.”
Another agreed: “NTA (not the a**hole). No, what is this epidemic of people assuming they can take another person’s assigned seat?”
Applauding how the user conducted herself, one said: “It was very kind of OP to sit back so the child could still look out the window.
“Which makes her even further from being an AH in my book and the dad even more of one!”
It comes after a passenger who refused to give up his plane seat for a man who wanted to sit next to his wife on her birthday sparked debate.
Elsewhere, an attendant has laid down the rules for giving up for plane seat for a family.
