“Seat Snag Sparks Tense Showdown: What Happened When a Woman Demanded a Seat Swap on a Packed Flight?”
“I always book the window and aisle, lol. I can go without talking to my husband for a couple of hours,” one user joked.
An influencer went viral after her offer of changing seats on a plane got rejected by a couple, leaving her sitting in between them and confused
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The video is the latest in an ever-growing trend of passengers recording various uncomfortable situations on planes, from fights to robberies, altercations, and other problems. For instance, a simple search on airplane fights returns more than 690 million posts on the platform. Similarly, a search of couples arguing on planes returns around 480 million clips.
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Miller’s audience, accustomed to more hectic videos on TikTok, was surprised by the relative calmness with which all parties handled the disagreement. They took the chance to share their preferences with the influencer.
“I respect it so long as the couple aren’t talking over me or constantly passing things between each other,” one wrote.
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“We do this too. He wants the window, and I want the aisle. We are strangers on a plane,” another passenger said.
“I’m a wife that buys a window seat for me and an aisle for my husband,” said one viewer in a similar video. “If the middle seat is bought, I never make the person sit between us. I always offer them a window seat.” A courtesy the couple in the video did not grant the TikToker.
