Businessman refuses to give up window seat for entitled couple and their screaming baby for a 14 hour international flight: '[I] paid $125ish for a window seat!'

The funny thing about travel is that you can plan to do everything right, but one thing outside of your control can ruin your entire experience.

Traveling inevitably requires letting go of control in some sense. Not only are you beholden to the pilot, but several factors could contribute to a great, mediocre, or disastrous experience that you simply cannot anticipate. For instance, you might have brought a blanket. You might have remembered to bring the proper headphones to watch in-flight entertainment so that you don't have to purchase anything. You might even have one of those unflattering neck pillows with you.

Still, nothing can prepare you for sitting next to an inconsiderate passenger. This author was all prepared for a 14-hour international flight for his upcoming business trip. He even paid $125 extra out of his own pocket to ensure that he would secure a window seat. However, when he saw an entitled couple with a screaming child sitting in his seat, well, let's just say all his plans for a restful experience did not take flight (so to speak).

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While it's not necessarily convenient for the couple to have to hand off their baby across the aisle for the duration of the flight, if it really mattered to them so much, they should have reserved the seats they wanted in advance. They cannot give the author the stink eye for wanting the seat he paid for.
Of course, we empathize with parents of newborns, who cannot always control their loud children. However, bringing their kid on the plane is not why they were in the wrong here. The egregious error was their assumption that a random stranger would “compromise” for a worse flight experience when he was already going to be sitting next to a noisy baby. If you want something from a total stranger, you have to consider what's in it for them!
"It unfortunately finally happened to me…"

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