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AITA for not giving up my seat to a pregnant woman on a long flight? Air travel offers a mix of marvels and challenges. Between navigating busy airports, enduring tight seating, and dealing with the discomforts of boredom, restricted legroom, and crying children, it’s no wonder that many passengers opt for an upgrade to enhance their journey.
One traveler questioned if he made a mistake by not offering his premium seat to a pregnant woman on a lengthy twelve-hour flight. We’ve reached out to him for his perspective and will update the story once we receive his response.
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AITA for not giving up my seat to a pregnant woman on a long flight?
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I am always going to put my things under my seat before I go above my head. I am 5’1″ for starters and I want my valuables under my feet. Period. I also don’t want to wrestle with bags, so I check the big ones or am the first person to offer to gate check.
I have a spinal injury, you can not tell by looking at me, but I cannot sit in economy without ending up having severely painful spasms, I always pay extra for the better seating because of this, and it is pretty normal for someone to request I trade seats, when I say no, I get major attitude and I am sick of it. My response now is hell no. I fly as little as possible because it has become a thing that always happens and I am so fed up.
oliverwhitham Writes:
A seat ticket doesn’t reserve the space above your head, I saw a woman get incredibly angry because she didn’t want her bag to get touched by any other bag on the overhead, she thought she was entitled to the entire thing.
Also, too many people don’t realize you’re meant to put your personal bag under the seat in front of you, it’s one off the big reasons overhead bins reach capacity before people finish boarding.
Slightly off topic, but this still bugs me so I want to vent for a second.
I was on a long-haul flight earlier this year. I had checked a bag and didn’t have a carry-on since I hate fighting for space. I did have a very bulky parka, though, since it was winter. I spot some space in the overhead bin across from me, so I start shoving my parka in (again, I didn’t have a carry-on, so I wasn’t taking up more space than I was entitled to). This woman looks me in the eye and matter of factly states, “Sorry, you can’t put your things there. My husband is moving his stuff from farther back to there.” I was dumbfounded and just stared at her like wtf (of course after the fact, figured I could’ve just said “sounds like he’s all set then.” And just sit down). Anyways, her husband comes with his bag and says we can share the space. I’m like whatever, that’s fine, everything fits so I’m cool with it. I also felt a little guilty about taking some space in the bin above their seats. When this woman gets up after we land, she proceeds to pull FOUR bags out of the overhead bin, not including her husband’s one bag. Then I was pissed all over again.
50CentButInNickels writes:
Also while I am ranting, 3 times in the past month someone has sat in my window seat because “oops” mistake!!! But their things are stored can’t we just trade?
