Airplane passenger refuses to swap seats on 70 minute flight so dad and 7-year-old son can sit together, cites booking ahead:'I think he was trying to shame me'

Air travel is perhaps one of the least dignified forms of transport (unless you're really rich, anyway). From the way that the TSA agents scowl at you to the awkward shuffle you have to do past a stranger if you're in the window seat and you want to go to the bathroom, there really is nothing to recommend it apart from the fact it is the fastest way to go long distances.

It is a small wonder that we don't see more instances of air rage, although there are still plentiful examples of awkward and entitled behavior that take place on planes. There is something about traveling by air that causes some people to lose all sense of what it right in favor of what they want. Unfortunately, even if compromise seems annoying it is something that is unavoidable when you and your fellow passengers are all imitating tinned sardines at 30,000 feet.

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On a recent flight, one man ran into issues before the plane even got off the ground. On a short 70-minute flight, he had booked himself a window seat but found that a father and son were sitting next to each other there when he got on the plane. The dad requested he let them sit together as their seat was in a different row, but the man refused. It's fair to say the family weren't happy, leading their fellow passenger to wonder if he had been in the wrong.
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AITA for refusing to give up my seat on the plane so a boy could sit next to his father, and to tell the father to behave himself?

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The internet was on his side, although some pointed out there could be more factors at play than entitlement.

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