Why all these stories about fliers not wanting to give up seats?

[Anonymous]

The latest one, a woman wouldn’t give up her 1A seat on a flight from Seattle to Paris (don’t blame her). What kind of entitled people are flying nowadays?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12351839/Pharmacist-films-SMILING-refusing-prime-class-seat-flight-Seattle-Paris-female-passenger-sit-teenage-son.html

[Anonymous]

I hate that people are feeling guilted into giving up a superior seat they usually paid extra for.
It’s the airlines fault 99% of the time. It’s human nature to want to sit with your kids or spouse and charging extra for that privilege is asinine.

[Anonymous]

I know. I always find these stories so weird - the entitled people, the screaming and crying babies. I travel a good amount and this has not happened to me - ever.

[Anonymous]

If y'all want to sit together, pay for your seats next to each other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hate that people are feeling guilted into giving up a superior seat they usually paid extra for.
It’s the airlines fault 99% of the time. No It’s human nature to want to sit with your kids or spouse and charging extra for that privilege is asinine.

The link in OP isn’t really a superior seat, though. I don’t get being so attached to it and would have probably moved, personally.

[Anonymous]

Just because it gets the clicks. I am sure this kind of thing has happened all the time- you just didn't have people posting videos about it.

[Anonymous]

Usually it’s people who didn’t want to pay extra fees that then feel entitled to inconvenience others. Too bad.

[Anonymous]

Those that want to rearrange everyone are not paying extra to select the seats.

[Anonymous]

Team #Don'tGiveUpYourSeat
Although I found it unnecessary and immature for that person to film herself smiling and being smug and then post it to TikTok after she refused to give up her seat, in general the only time I would give up my seat is if a child (not a teenager) and parent were in different rows and my moving would enable them to sit together, or if an elderly person really needed my seat for some reason. Otherwise keep it moving, don't bother to ask me.

[Anonymous]

Half the time they have teenage kids. I'm sorry, the teenage kids can sit by themselves.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Usually it’s people who didn’t want to pay extra fees that then feel entitled to inconvenience others. Too bad.

I sorta don’t think that’s what’s going on in Air France first class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate that people are feeling guilted into giving up a superior seat they usually paid extra for.
It’s the airlines fault 99% of the time. No It’s human nature to want to sit with your kids or spouse and charging extra for that privilege is asinine.

The link in OP isn’t really a superior seat, though. I don’t get being so attached to it and would have probably moved, personally.

Yes, the article says 1A is a coveted seat. Why? I get not moving from first class or not moving from an aisle to window. But if you stay in an aisle seat in first, why is 1 so much better? Is it nearest the bathroom?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If y'all want to sit together, pay for your seats next to each other.

I do sympathy for parents who did get seats together but the airline moved them. Or when your flight is cancelled and rebooked, so you’re no longer sitting together. But I mean the kind of sympathy where I say “Oh, that’s too bad. Sorry that happened. But I’m not moving.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If y'all want to sit together, pay for your seats next to each other.

I do sympathy for parents who did get seats together but the airline moved them. Or when your flight is cancelled and rebooked, so you’re no longer sitting together. But I mean the kind of sympathy where I say “Oh, that’s too bad. Sorry that happened. But I’m not moving.”

+1 That’s a situation where you wait for a flight where you can be seated together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hate that people are feeling guilted into giving up a superior seat they usually paid extra for.
It’s the airlines fault 99% of the time. No It’s human nature to want to sit with your kids or spouse and charging extra for that privilege is asinine.

The link in OP isn’t really a superior seat, though. I don’t get being so attached to it and would have probably moved, personally.

Yes so many little errors in this article, of course. The passenger is on a 787, but they show the (similar, but different) AF A350 business class seats. They are mixing the use of first class and business class, when:

1. Air France is actually one of the few airlines still flying a separate international first class. And

2. It's only on some of their 777-300s, and they don't have a separate first class section in the 787 on this route.

And yes, every seat in this business class section is basically the same, other than if you have a window or not. It's even weirder actually that someone in a window seat was asked to move- if you wanted to be closer to your kid, you would probably want the middle seat next to them, so you could pass stuff easily, talk if you lean forward, etc. But the thing about modern business class on long haul flights is they are mostly designed for privacy, so it's just hard generally to be right next to someone else, except for a few planes with middle sections designed for this (Qatar has seats designed for this, for example).