A man has revealed that he refused to give up his seat during his second 10-hour flight of the day so that a family of six could sit together.
Taking to Reddit in a now-deleted post, the man explained that after paying for extra legroom in the second part of a 20-hour trip, he was asked to give up his seat by a family, the Mirror reports.
While the man said that was "pretty sure [he'd acted like an] a**hole", he wanted a second opinion.
He wrote: "I paid a small amount extra for a seat that is in the front of the cabin - the coach seat that has a wall in front of it and extra legroom because it's my second leg in a 20-hour total trip.
"Two adults, two children (8ish?) and two infants would like to fill this row of four. Two adults with one infant each in the bassinet in front of them, and the two middle-schoolers. The attendant asked if I would move to a similar seat so they could sit together.
"I said, 'but I paid extra for this seat.' The response was that the other seat was the exact same, so sure. It was not the exact same. It was the same chair, aisle, and class, but it was not with the extra legroom. I said, 'absolutely not.'
"So one of the middle schoolers had to sit by themselves."
He said that the passengers went on to look at him with disdain for the remainder of the flight.
The man added: "Service on the flight for me was abhorrent in comparison to everyone around me," and he said that the flight attendants "forgot" to serve him and they were slow in answering his requests.
But despite the man believing that he was likely in the wrong, Reddit users said that the situation could have been handled differently by the flight staff.
As per the Mirror, one Reddit user wrote: "You paid more and planned ahead. They didn't. Too many parents think the rest of us will just give them want they want even if they don't pay or plan for it."
A second added: "If the flight attendants had wanted to make it easier for the parents by you moving, they should have offered you a better seat. I bet there were a few open in first class."
However, a third less sympathetic user wrote: "I always think these stories are funny because you literally buy airplane tickets with the clause that if the flight attendants/staff on the plane ask you to move, you will. The only reason they issue refunds or anything if you get put in a worse seat is just customer service, they literally aren't obligated to do that."
Meanwhile, one Reddit user simply questioned where the man was going, writing: "Where is he going that it's 10 hours and then 10 hours??? [sic]"
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