Father’s plan to swap aisle seats with a plane passenger backfires: ‘Never switch’

A woman recalls the “crazy plane behavior” she recently witnessed flightAnd there has been a debate about it plane Etiquette.

in a viral Video Posted on TIC TocUser Alex Bennett (@justalexbennett) recalled how a father asked a fellow plane passenger to switch seats with him so that he could sit with his two children. However, the father was not completely honest about what seat He will exchange the man for him.

“I saw the craziest aircraft behavior on the way here,” Bennett began the video, which has been viewed nearly 300,000 times since it was posted. She said she was sitting behind a man in an aisle seat when a father with his two children approached the man and asked if he could take his seat.

“He’s like: ‘Hey man, my kids have [the] middle and window [seats] And I’ve found this corridor. Do you mind swapping aisles for me?’” Bennett recalled.

When the man asked the father if he would exchange the aisle seat he purchased for another aisle seat across from them, the TikToker claimed the father hesitated before answering.

“Dad stopped and he said: ‘Middle or aisle? Yes, aisle,'” she shared.

The man – whom she said was “a big, old man” – swapped aisle seats with the father so she could sit next to her children, before another woman took her place. She came to the man and informed him that he was now sitting on his seat. “She’s like: ‘Hey, I’m the aisle seat here.’ And he’s like: ‘Oh, I traded with that guy. He said he had an aisle seat,'” Bennett explained.

However, at that time, the father who had asked to swap seats refused to look up from his phone during the debacle. “Dad had the middle seat, and I think he knew it,” Bennett said. Nevertheless, the man “couldn’t have been nicer” and got up from his seat once again to move to the middle seat in the row.

“I completely understand that a father wants to sit with his children, there is no doubt about that. But I think you have to say to the guy: ‘I’m in the middle. I need a solid here because I have to sit with my kids. But you can’t say you’re the aisle and then the girl is addressing it,” Bennett shouted.

“Airplane etiquette business seats,” he wrote on the viral clip, and captioned the post: “Airplane etiquette is crazy.”

In the comments section, many were surprised that the father “lied” to the man about his ticketed plane seat and refused to clarify the situation.

“No way. ‘No way.’ One TikTok user commented under Bennett’s video, saying, ‘Sorry dude, you have to go back because you lied to me.’

“I would have asked him why he lied in front of his children. The kids will remember the confrontation,” another person wrote.

A third user said, “Deal breaker.” “If he is unwilling to return, a flight attendant will be called.”

Meanwhile, others admitted they refuse to sweat it out with strangers on airplanes, with one person saying: “Airplanes are the only place you won’t find me people-pleasing. My seat It’s my seat.”

“That’s why my answer is no! Every time,” someone else said, while another user wrote: “Never switch.”

In recent months, there has been debate regarding the proper etiquette of switching seats on planes. In July, a CEO’s video goes viral after he refuses to switch seats with a mother Who wanted to sit next to her two children in the flight. Tammy Nelson, CEO of global jewelry brand CONQUERING, shares TIC Toc That she was flying on a Delta Air Lines flight from Cincinnati, Ohio, to San Jose, California, when she noticed a woman sitting in her window seat.

“I got on the plane and there was a woman sitting in my seat and when I mentioned it to her, she said, ‘Oh, you want to sit here? I thought we could change because these are my kids,'” ‘ Nelson recalled. “I said, ‘As long as it’s a window seat, I’ll be happy to switch.’ She points to the row behind us and says, ‘Mine’s over there.’ This is the middle seat.”

She said the mother was reportedly “extremely angry” that Nelson had refused to change seats before going back to his middle seat.