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 the traveler in social media post. “I wanted the seats that I paid for.
” A separate jet-setter, who caught a 14-hour flight from Asia at the top of the year, garnered high praise from virtual supporters after refusing to relinquish a spacious exit-row seat to a pregnant woman. “I don’t feel extremely bad [about] my decision,” said the flyer in an online confessional, “But maybe I am wrong.” But the Reddit user who denied his seat to the honeymooners didn’t feel remorseful.
In fact, he’d even proposed a decent deal to the groom. “I offered to switch if he paid the difference between the seats,” said the man. “It is a goodly amount.
I had been lucky to get mine at a decent price.” “It would only have cost him [$675.00].
” But, alas, the new hubby wasn’t buying it. “He said that they were on a budget for their honeymoon,” the guy wrote. “I congratulated once again and put in my earbuds.
” “He muttered that I was an a- -hole,” remembered the flyer. “I said he was a prick for taking the upgrade instead of either sitting with his wife or giving it to her.” And his digital defenders agreed.
“[You’re not the a- -hole],” assured a community member. “If he really wanted to sit with his wife I’m sure the person sitting beside her would have loved an upgrade to premium economy.” “Sounds scammy or slimy,” wrote cynical spectator, casting aspersions on the suspicious couple.
“I just came back from my honeymoon,” said a new bride. “If my husband had ditched me to take an upgrade it would have been a very, very bad time for him!.”.
