These lovebirds won’t be flying as a flock. It’s too bad when a recently wedded twosome can’t sit side-by-side during their honeymoon flight. But an unsympathetic passenger — who refused to swap his choice seat for the bride’s low-fair chair — claims her “prick” groom is truly to blame.
“I was flying from Melbourne to Dubai,” explained a Redditor in the ever-trendy “Am I The A—hole,” community thread. “I paid for a premium economy seat because it is a 14-hour flight and I want to be comfortable.” But, thanks to the nagging newlywed, the trip quickly became uncomfortable.
“The person in the next seat had been upgraded and they asked if I could switch seat with their wife as they had just gotten married and were on their honeymoon,” added the writer. “I congratulated him on his nuptials and asked where his wife was sitting,” recalled the man. “He pointed towards the back of the plane — in economy.
” “I declined to switch seats.” The unflinching flyer is the number of trippers who’ve said “No” to mile-high seat-switching. Be they brides and grooms, travel buds or families with small children, folks of the not-so-friendly skies are virally rejecting heartfelt requests for exchanges — no matter the circumstances.
In January, a plus-size sightseer, who’d purchased herself an extra seat for roominess, rebuffed a single mom’s pleas that she give up the unoccupied spot to her 18-month-old son. “I said, ‘No,’ recounted th.