People are praising a traveler who made a little girl cry as she noticed that the child was sitting in her paid seat and made her move.

Traveling can be rough, even if the destination is fun. For me, there is nothing worse than having to sit still for hours at a time because the boredom can become too much.

With that being said, I like to pick my seats on an airplane so I can ensure that I have the best journey possible - which usually means staring out of the window with child-like wonder.

But it has never occurred to me that somebody, albeit a child in this case, might already be occupying that seat, and luckily I've never had to ask anybody to move.

The same can't be said for one Redditor who boarded a nine-hour flight to find that a child was occupying the window seat that she had paid for.

Sharing her experience on the popular Am I The A**hole forum, she said: "I (22F) am traveling internationally today. It’s an 8-9-hour flight, and I’m traveling 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 was 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. He looked at me and said she’s a child and pointed at the aisle seat, suggesting I take it."

The Reddit user went on to describe how she eventually settled in the unoccupied aisle seat, informing her family about the situation.

Her father, who had paid extra for the specific seat, confirmed that it rightfully belonged to her. When she relayed this information to the child's father, he relocated his daughter to the middle seat, resulting in the child bursting into tears after being separated from the window.

Throughout the flight, the man allegedly made snide comments, but the Reddit user sat back, allowing the little girl to enjoy the view from the window. Still, she was uncertain if she had done the right thing.

The Reddit community overwhelmingly supported her actions, with one user stating: "You bought a seat to be able to use it, and the father in this situation knew that the seat he put his child in wasn’t theirs to use. If the father wanted their child to have a window seat, they should have selected one. People choose their seats of preference for all sorts of different reasons, and they shouldn’t have to deal with someone just assuming that they can sit there."

A second person said: "No, what is this epidemic of people assuming they can take another person's assigned seat? The seats can have different prices, and can be selected ahead of time. The father can keep his snide remarks to himself."

Other users praised the woman for standing her ground and claiming her seat, adding that she was incredibly generous to spend the long flight sitting back so the child could see out of the window.

So apparently there are occasions when making a child cry is an okay thing to do.

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Social media users have told a passenger to be "proud" of herself after she made a little girl cry because she refused to give up her window seat.

Accommodating another passenger's wishes can be difficult, especially when you have already gone through the hassle of pre-booking your allocated seat before a stressful time flight.

It can be even more frustrating when you board the plane and find someone else - in this case a child - sitting in the specific seat you reserved for your nine-hour flight.

One Reddit user experienced this exact scenario, as she posted on the Am I the A**hole forum looking for confirmation that she did the right thing after she left a youngster in tears because she booted them out of her seat.

The viral post on the platform read: "I (22F) am traveling internationally today. It’s an 8-9-hour flight and I’m traveling 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. He looked at me and said she’s a child and pointed at the aisle seat suggesting I take it," she continued.

The original poster went on to say that she took the unoccupied aisle seat before contacting her family about her predicament. Her dad then called her and said that he had paid extra money for that specific seat so it was rightfully hers.

So, the woman explained this to the father of the child, and he then moved his daughter into the middle seat. However, the little girl began crying after being taken away from the window which led to the dad allegedly making disparaging remarks towards the passenger throughout the journey.

Even though the Reddit user sat back so the child was able to see out of the window, she was unsure whether she had done the right thing.

However, commenters were widely supportive of the young woman and informed her that she was completely in the right to claim her seat. One user wrote: "As a parent and have taken over 100+ flights with my kids to over 40 countries as young as 3 mo... You had the right to kick the kid out."

"I never would have behaved the way that Dad did. You should be proud that you stood up for yourself because other people are assholes and will take advantage of you all the time," they added.

Another chimed in: "You bought a seat to be able to use it, and the father in this situation knew that the seat he put his child in wasn’t theirs to use. If the father wanted their child to have a window seat, they should have selected one. People choose their seats of preference for all sorts of different reasons, and they shouldn’t have to deal with someone just assuming that they can sit there."

A third remarked: "No, what is this epidemic of people assuming they can take another person's assigned seat? The seats can have different prices and can be selected ahead of time. The father can keep his snide remarks to himself.

A fourth added: "It's your seat. It's paid for. Never feel bad about this. You seem kind. No harm in sharing the view. But do you think for a second that kid's parent would let you sit there if the roles were reversed? Absolutely not."

Other users also mentioned that the young woman was incredibly generous for sitting back during the long flight so the child could see out of the window.

What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments!

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A plane passenger's selfish act involving her coat has left people divided on what they would do if they were in a similar situation.

Now, getting on a lengthy flight means kicking back, relaxing, and throwing on a good ol' movie for the entire ride, but what happens when a fellow passenger stops you from doing that?

One person was left stuck between a rock and a hard place after a passenger in front of them decided to throw their coat over their seat.

Taking to Reddit with a post titled "Ready To Be Triggered?", the social media user showed people an image what they had to deal with for the entire duration of their flight alongside a caption giving a little bit of background context.

"A veeery old woman was wheelchair’d on to the plane, and she was with a family member (probably a son), and it took two airport employees to carry her in to the middle seat," the poster penned last week.

"I actually had to leave my row to give them space to maneuver," they continued. "Then her family member proceeded to make it more comfortable to [sic] her by putting her gigantic jacket over the seat, resulting in what you saw here."

The Reddit poster also noted that the flyer next to them, whose TV was covered, "said she wasn’t going to say anything, so neither did I. But she had to sadly just scroll Instagram and text for an entire 4-hour flight."

Hundreds took to the comment section of the post and expressed what they would do in the situation, with a lot of them slamming the original poster for not using their voice.

"What's wrong with: 'Excuse me, your jacket is blocking my screen. Can you please reposition it?'" asked one user while another added: "Speak up? I’m flipping it back over the seat so I can have my flight info on the screen I never look at."

A third even stated that a flight attendant should have been notified of the disturbance writing: "As a FA, please tell me. A lot of the time they don't realize it's covering the monitor. People go through life in their own bubble. Let me help them realize they're not the only ones on the planet."

However, someone else replied to the comment stating that they were of no help to them when they were in a similar predicament.

"I had a flight attendant tell me 'it’s their chair they can do whatever they want,'" they wrote.

Yikes.

Others blamed the passenger with the coat, slamming them for being so careless.

"This really solidifies my theory that some people are just f****** clueless about the fact that other people exist. They see a screen in front of them, they see screens in front of every seat to the side of them, yet the screens behind them don’t exist. It’s truly magical," this user commented, while another agreed saying: "This definitely triggered me. Nobody is that clueless, it was done on purpose and nothing can convince me otherwise. They counted on the person behind being passive..."

However, others defended the old lady, explaining that she probably didn't realize the issue, especially if no one had notified her.

"I doubt this was malicious in any way," wrote this Reddit user. "Traveling with disabilities is stressful and when you've got so many things on your mind, it's easy to not realize you did something like this. I'd guess that if someone said 'hey, your coat is blocking the IFE here, could we adjust it a little so I can use it?' they would have happily done so.

"It's not awkward or mean unless you make it so," they added.

What do you think?

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Traveling is exhausting for the best of us. However, those dealing with varying levels of exhaustion from their offspring can find taking holidays a little more tiresome. Basically, being a parent is hard work.

For one US family, the stress of long-haul flying seemed all too much as they allegedly allowed their toddler to run amok during the eight-hour journey.

One netizen was evidently so outraged at the behavior that they took to the r/PublicFreakout subreddit on Reddit - a thread boasting 4.3 million members dedicated to "people freaking out, melting down, losing their cool, or being weird in public."

The user, who goes by the Reddit handle readysetgorilla, posted a video to the subreddit of a toddler jumping up and down on a tray table behind another passenger's seat. The video had no caption and was just tagged with "Airport Freakout" and titled: "Letting children run wild during an eight-hour flight."

Despite only being posted to the subreddit three days ago, it already has 17,800 upvotes, and people in the comments are clearly not happy with the behavior, letting their opinions on the toddler's parents known.

"I would feel like a failed parent if my kids were doing this and I was just straight up allowing it," one person commented.

While another added: "Why is the guy just letting it happen? I would've said something," obviously in reference to the man whose seat was being vigorously shaken by the toddler jumping on the table tray attached to the back of his seat.

"I'm pretty non confrontational, but even I would stand up and say something," someone else wrote.

"The parent/guardian is a moron. Not only is this rude, it's f***ing dangerous," another comment read.

One user - who stated that they frequently fly for work - wrote a timeline of escalations on what happens during a flight if passengers are rude or difficult.

"Ask politely once. Beyond that, don't engage, call over the flight attendant. They will ask them to stop, and if they refuse they'll usually move you to an upgraded seat if available. If no seat is available and the aggressor keeps it up, they'll usually have an air marshall come over if one is available, but this is super rare," they wrote.

"If one isn't available, which is almost always the case, attendant will sometimes threaten speaking to the pilot which will lead to a premature landing depending on the severity of the incident... If it gets to that point the customer will be blacklisted and you'll get a complimentary upgraded flight. Usually the FA coming over is enough to put a stop to it," the comment concluded.

Many people also included their own parent horror stories, with one user even writing about a heavily intoxicated mother who passed out on her flight before take-off, leaving her baby unattended and toddler to run wild in the aisles. The incident allegedly concluded with the children's father appearing from the back of the plane and engaging in a shouting match with his wife.

What would you do in this situation? Let us know in the comments!

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Babies and planes are a potent mix and one which can always come with the potential for disaster.

And one British influencer opened up about how they had to endure a "nightmare" trip with her five-month-old baby when returning from a family vacation in The Maldives.

Billie Faiers - widely known in the UK for her appearance on the reality TV show The Only Way Is Essex - revealed she was forced to hold her five-month-old daughter for 12 hours as she and her husband Greg Shepherd jetted back from the southern Asian island in the Indian Ocean.

Opening up on her podcast with her sister Sam, the mom of three claimed she was denied an in-flight bassinet for her baby girl Margot as there were none available when they were traveling back to the UK.

The reality star said: "I had a nightmare. We get on the plane and going out there we had the bassinet for Margot, which is what you get when you have a young baby.

"Going out, it’s great because where the bassinets are you get the legroom as well, so you know with a baby you’ve got all the stuff and you’re always in and out of the baby bag.

"Anyway, we get on the flight and they’re like ‘really sorry the bassinet's broke’. One bassinet on the whole flight."

Faiers - who also shares her two older children Nelly and Arthur with Shepherd - went on to say: "So I had to hold Margot in my arms for 12 hours – Greg and mum helped as well. I just thought 'please don’t do this to me'.

"She’s at the age now – she’s five months – she doesn’t want to be restricted in my arms for 12 hours, but we had no choice."

Sam - the 33-year-old TV personality's sister - also took a flight she would rather forget when returning from Dubai back to the UK with her son Edward.

"Obviously it wasn’t as long but is like six or seven hours," she said. "No bassinet at all and Edward is 11 months and he’s heavy. Paul and I had to hold him the whole flight because the bassinet seat was taken."

She continued: "We were like 'Well I requested a bassinet seat. I understand that seat might be taken, but it was a couple that had those four seats with no baby.

"And I was like 'can you swap us please because you can see I’ve got a baby here that’s 11 months that’s going to want to lay out and sleep' and I had the same issue.

"She wouldn’t move us and I was like, 'but we have a baby, surely the baby comes over legroom' – unless you’re really elderly or something, but these were a couple in their 30s and 40s. It was bad."

Babies on planes seem to have become a hot topic this year, with more and more stories dropping regarding infants causing some kind of chaos in one form or another, often completely oblivious to the fact they are doing so, which is kind of brilliant, especially in the case of one passenger who completely lost his mind and called an actual baby "that motherf*****".

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