A Reddit user recounted a situation on a Delta flight where they had to confront a woman who refused to vacate her assigned seat. The passenger calmly but assertively demanded the woman move, ultimately receiving support from fellow passengers and the flight crew.
A flight passenger was praised for how they handled a difficult situation in which a fellow flyer argued about changing seats.The Reddit poster, who did not wish to share their name, described how they were forced to deal with a woman who didn't want to switch seats on a Delta Air Lines flight, even though she was sitting in the wrong one.The post, titled 'Another seat squatter,' has received a great deal of attention, with 23,000 upvotes and over 1,000 comments.
In the post, the passenger explains that an older woman was sitting in their seat and refused to move because she wanted to sit next to her husband.As the passenger says the woman is sitting in their seat, she gestures to an empty middle seat across the aisle.'Full line of folks backed up the jetway waiting to board,' the Redditer wrote. 'I back up and loudly say, 'I'll wait for you to get to your seat so that I can get to mine.''The woman reluctantly gets up from her seat. Because boarding was backed up, a flight attendant had to come to the scene to find out why boarding had stopped.The passenger told Newsweek: 'Initially, folks go quiet. Like whenever there's a human conflict, the murmuring goes quiet as folks direct their attention on the drama.'The poster continued: 'When I ask this lady to get to her seat so that I could get to mine, there was a subtle gasp from a few because I said it loudly so everyone could hear. Once she realized I wasn't backing down, she began to grumble and bluster with a few different argument points, and I chose to not engage at all. A few folks started to agree with me with some subtle comments like 'Just get to your correct seat, lady,' stuff like that.'After her third or fourth dramatic attempt to get her way, a few others started to get more vocal about her squatting on my seat. I would say five or six people contributed to the crowd...urging this lady to just get to her correct seat, with no one taking her sid
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