She questioned, “Is that a thing that people are doing on planes now? They just sit in your seat and just go like, ‘no, it’s mine, I sat there first so minesies?'”
The feedback part of the TikTok video is stuffed with related tales from different passengers.
One traveler recounted an incident the place she handed her two younger youngsters to the girl occupying her seat, prompting the girl to rapidly discover her own seat. A flight attendant named Olivia commented on the TikTok, stating: “I’m a flight attendant and once a passenger says someone is in my seat, I 100% make them move to their assigned seat.”
Reddit boards are additionally brimming with anecdotes about this trend.
One Reddit person claimed to have witnessed three “seat squatters” on a single flight, together with a man who insisted that a seat removed from his assigned one was his.
“The next was a lady in 18A who was being adamant with the seat holder that she needed to be by the window and not in the middle.”
“The next was a couple that was supposed to be in 24C and D and decided to camp out and plant their flag in 24A and B.”
Suggestions on how to resolve such points are additionally being shared, with concepts starting from promoting them the seat to denying them boarding.
