A keen traveler has reignited the debate around airplane etiquette after revealing a controversial seat swap trick.
Alex Bennett, from Tucson, Arizona, took to TikTok to tell her 274,000 followers about how she had ‘witnessed the most insane plane behavior.’
She explained how a father-of-two had tricked a fellow passenger into moving seats using seemingly underhand tactics.
And viewers were quick to flood to the comments to express their shock.
Alex Bennett, from Tucson, Arizona , took to TikTok to tell her 274,000 followers about how she had ‘witnessed the most insane plane behavior
She explained how a father-of-two had tricked a fellow passenger into moving seats using seemingly underhand tactics
In the clip, which has so far been viewed more than 297,600 times, Alex wasted little time in dishing the detail of the bizarre encounter.
‘There was a guy behind us sitting on the aisle and a dad walks up with his two kids and he’s like, “hey, man, my kids have middle and window, and I’ve got this aisle across.
‘”Do you mind just swapping me – aisle to aisle?”
‘The guy is like, “No big deal. Happy to switch. Just to clarify you are in this aisle seat?”‘
The content creator continued of the exchange that the dad paused but clarified that it was indeed the aisle seat that he was talking about.
‘The guy gets up, swaps, goes to the aisle. Dad sits down on the aisle with his two kids.
‘Girl walks up about 10 seconds later to the guy that swapped. She’s like, “hey, I’m the aisle seat here.”‘
The man explained to the woman how he had just swapped with the father-of-two for the aisle seat – while the doting dad ignores the conversation and continues to look at his phone.
Her video was soon flooded with comments from viewers who were shocked at the maneuver and shared their own thoughts about seat swapping
But with no further clarification the gentleman who had given up his seat then has to relocate again.
‘He gets up and he moves to the middle. The dad had the middle seat and I think he knew it…
‘The guy didn’t say a word. He could not have been nicer.’
Alex concluded: ‘I understand. Totally understand. A dad wanted to sit with his kids but I think you got to tell the guy, “yo, man, I’m middle. I need a solid here because I need to stay with my kids.”‘
‘But you can’t say you’re the aisle.’
Her video was soon flooded with comments from viewers who were shocked at the maneuver and shared their own thoughts about seat swapping.
One person wrote: ‘A plane is the only place you won’t catch me being a people pleaser. My seat is my seat.’
Another commented: ‘This is why my answer is no! Every d*** time.’
A third person added: ‘I put on my headphones, and don’t acknowledge any person once I sit down. Bother someone else lol.’
Someone else shared: ‘Absolutely not. I would have been like, “sorry dude you gotta switch back since you lied to me.”‘
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