Entitled pregnant woman demands passenger give up his seat on a plane for her, he refuses, leading husband to confront him: ‘No, I'm not moving. Sorry’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Mar 30, 2025 1:00 PM EDT

Picture this. You're planning your next vacation, and you go on a flight website to buy your plane tickets. You put in all the necessary details, and find a great flight for an extremely cheap price, awesome. You click on it, then you learn that the price was only for one way, so it's actually double the price. Okay, still not bad, quite a decent price, so you keep going with the process. You then find out that if you plan on bringing any luggage, you have to add even more money to each ticket. Hmm, this is starting to get a bit pricey, but let's keep going. You get to the seating chart, and there you realise that if you actually want a seat, that would cost you more money as well, and if you want two adjacent seats for you and your partner, well, you get where we're going with this…

When you finally reach check out and the taxes get added up, you come to terms with the idea of a staycation, because you have no desire to sell a kidney just so you could get on this one plane.

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  • Why did we paint you this picture, you ask?

    Well, some people try to minimize their financial damage when booking a flight, so they make compromises. They pack light, they refuse to pay for their seats, and they make it work as they go. So is it fair that they start making demands while they are actually on board, like asking to switch seats with people who actually paid for them? Probably not.

    That is what the story below is about; keep scrolling to read it.

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    "AITA for refusing to give up my seat on a plane for a pregnant woman?"

    My (31M) fiancé "Jeremy" (32M) and I were flying out to Louisiana to visit my parents in preparation for our wedding two months from now. Jeremy and I look very different from
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    each other, we're different races, different backgrounds, different styles, cultures, etc. We never look like we're going to the same place or even like we know each other.
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    Frequently I've walked in behind him at restaurants and they'll address him and be like "just one tonight?" It's honestly whatever. Just another thing about us.
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    He's also, and this is important, and very anxious man with an intense fear of flying. He needs me near him at all times while flying. He even starts panicking if I use the restroom. Before
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    you ask, no, we couldn't drive or take the train for reasons I don't wanna get into. On the second leg of our trip we were sat in a three
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    seat row. Him by the window already looking out of it with his headphones on, me in the middle, and a stranger (M) on the aisle. Once the stranger sits down his wife follows him
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    and asks me if I'd be "okay switching seats so she could sit next to her husband." I said "no, sorry, I need to sit here. You can try the person behind him or behind you?"
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    She quickly got på ed and told me she needed to sit there way more than I did. because she was pregnant and her husband was there. For context, I could barely
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    see her bump. She was maybe 4ish months? But not struggling to get around at all. I pointed at Jeremy and told her "well, my fiancé is here and loses his sh... if he
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    flies alone, so no, I'm not moving. Sorry." Jeremy noticed me pointing at him. and took off his earbuds. She started to raise her voice and asked "well, what
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    about this?" She pointed to her stomach and I said "ma'am, all due respect, but how's it my problem who knocked you up. Not moving."
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    At that point the guy behind her in line snapped at her to go to her seat and she finally left. The husband was catatonic, no response at all, it was kind of impressive.
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    We took off and during the flight between panic attacks Jeremy told me he was glad I was there but he wished I was nicer about it. We landed with no problem until we got into the airport
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    and she shoved past me on the way to the baggage claim so hard I almost fell over. Was he right? Was | TA? | was starting to agree but then she shoved me, tbh.
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    TLDR: 1st trimester pregnant woman wanted my seat on a plane so she could sit next to her husband. I was sitting next to my fiancé who is afraid of flying and needed to comfort him so I refused. Aita?
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    NotCreativeAtAll16 NTA. Being pregnant does not entitle anyone to anything. She asked. You said no. That should have bee. The end of it. If she needed to sit next to sit
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    next to him, she could have paid extra or gotten an accommodation from the airline. Her lack of Lanning is not your fault.
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    stroppo Find it hard to believe that a woman who is pregnant and traveling w/her husband didn't book seats together beforehand. Yeah, maybe a last minute issue came up, but one would think they'd have mentioned that...
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    Smarterthanuthink867 Definitely NTA! If she had needed so badly to sit next to her husband because she's pregnant then they should have purchased seats next to each other. Also, you're response to her was hilarious!!
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    stringrandom NTA. Her husband had an aisle seat! That's a tradable seat. He should have been looking to offer that to someone so he could sit next to her if it was that important.
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    RB1327 Jeremy told me he was glad I was there but he wished I was nicer about it. You certainly were right to keep your seat, so NTA on that point.
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    But when your own fiancé thinks you were unnecessarily r'e (..."who knocked you up"...) does that not matter to you?
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    Shellysome Even if you were flying alone you would be NTA. You do not need to give up your seat to anyone ever. If you would like to, that's entirely up to you.
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    Miss_Melody_Pond NTA. Your fiancé is wrong. You met the entitled woman with her own energy. If she so desperately needed to sit near her husband then she should have paid to. Shoving you so
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    hard you almost fell over shows she's too immature for adulthood. I feel awful for her baby. No wonder the husband went catatonic. It's probably his go to
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