Entitled mom demands passenger switch his economy plus seat with her 9-year-old sons basic economy seat, claims she can't sit back with him because she needs the legroom: 'Clearly she cares more about her own comfort than her son's well being'

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Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor
Nov 19, 2024 8:00 PM EST

You can totally control the kind of experience you have while flying. If you want the most frugal flying experience, you can pack a lunch before getting to the airport, arrange your possessions so you don't have to check a bag and fly on the economy jets available at Frontier Airlines or Spirit Airlines. Your back might not thank you for choosing to fly this way, but your wallet certainly will. 

If you have money to spend, the same goes for ensuring a genuinely luxurious experience while flying. First class and economy comfort plus seats are always waiting for someone to sit there, so long as they pay for them. Unfortunately, there will always be that group of people who feel they are entitled to a Delta Diamond experience without paying Delta Diamond money. The mom in this story is one of those people, and her entitlement is beyond belief.

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    AITAH for making seat swapper cry?
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    So, I board the plane, settle in to my economy plus seat. Woman approaches asks me to change seats to 32b so her 9 yr old can sit with her. I ask how much cash she has to repay me for the money I spent on the seat, she says I'm cruel for leaving her son with anxiety sitting alone. I ask if she offered the person sitting next to her son her seat in economy plus, she said she "needed the leg room". I said clearly she cares more about her own comfort than her son's well being, if she cared she woul
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    WhatTheActualFck1 ΝΤΑ She's in the wrong for 1- not being able to plan and book ahead of time so her son isn't left alone 2 - not being able to put aside her comfort ahead of her "precious son" and 3 - thinking that anyone owes her anything for being a poor planner.
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    WineCountsAsFruit OP When I booked my seat, hers was already taken so she booked first. Didn't look like poor planning, looked like she only wanted to pay for one premium seat and wanted to guilt me into giving up my seat.
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    smlpkg1966 That is what the tears were for. Crocodile tears.
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    alien_overlord_1001 She bought one economy plus seat, and was hoping to con someone into giving up their seat 'for her precious child' so she could get two economy plus seats and only pay for one.
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    WickedAngelLove NTA It's so annoying for ppl to do this- they don't want to pay for seats but want people who do pay to give up their seat. I would never unless it's equal or better value. that last time a man asked me to switch so he could sit with his girlfriend, i got to move 6 rows up and he brought my bag and put in the bin for me. Even sent me a drink.
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    Forsaken-Ad-7502 That's the way it should work. I'm on the tall side and always book exit row or pay for more legroom. I also have excellent resting b face, I don't even get asked.
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    Zealousideal-Set-592 Yep, I once asked someone to swap with me as there was a slight gap between my seat and my kid's seat and I wanted to be right next to her. It meant they actually got a seat with a bit more space. I was so grateful to them anyway. I will say that it's not always possible to get the best seats for your family, even when you plan in advance but I would always be willing to offer the better seat so I could be close to my kids.
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    blackcat218 NTA. If you had done what my brother usually does if someone asks him to swap seats then yes you would have been. He is 6'4 so he always books the exit row so he gets more leg room otherwise his legs get smooshed into someone's back. Even on the exit rows he sometimes is smooshed. His usual response to anyone that asks him to swap is "f | off". He flys quite often and he has told me on almost every flight he has taken in recent times someone has asked him to switch for some stupid re
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    Mysterious_Try_4453 the As soon as parents book a child under a certain age, booking site should make them book two seats together. It should not be an option to book random seats or only one premium and one random. If the parent is booking in economy, no extra charge should be added for booking two seats together, but if they try the premium and random, they should be forced to either pay for two premiums together or be downgraded to economy so they can be seated together.
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    capitolsara I just booked flights for my family of 4 international. The cheapest level of booking didn't allow us to pick our seats and they would be randomly assigned day of flight. So I paid an extra $100 per person to choose seats together because that amount of money is worth it to me to not have the anxiety of having to beg strangers to let me sit next to my kid. Though part of me kind of relishes the idea of some random being stuck with my 5 year olds demands the whole time! Luckily MIL is
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    Sebscreen NTA. I really hope this is real because that manipulative woman who sold out her son for "more leg room" deserved to get exposed as the opportunistic leech she is. Don't feel bad about her tears. They weren't real anyway.
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    rectal_warrior She would have gone out of her way to only pay for one seat it's not being a | planner, her plan was to only pay for one and guilt trip the person next to her into paying for a seat and not using it.
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    bevymartbc NTA. Whenever ANYONE is asking to swap seats, it's ALWAYS for a better one and they always throw a fit like this to try and get what they want when told no People like this should be removed from the plane
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    SetiG Exactly. They shouldn't be allowed to ask. IF they want to swap, it SHOULD be law that they ask flight attendants, then THEY ask passengers, take the "no" back to the entitled AH, and IMMEDIATELY remove them if their response isn't an immediate "ok no problem thanks for asking."
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    CheshireCat78 Not always true. I've asked before with people to sit with my family when we had babies/small children, but I'm always swapping like for like. Eg I always have an aisle seat and I ask to swap with their aisle seat. Wouldn't dream of asking someone to take a middle up the back in place of anything else.
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    The best was the time on air Asia when everyone was pushed one seat around (bet it was on purpose) was about 5 groups of people who all shifted along one seat and suddenly everyone sat with their own party. Never seen strangers so coordinated in my life.
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