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A poster on Reddit has spurred an interesting conversation around giving up a First Class seat for a child seated in Business Class. The child’s mother apparently made “an error” in booking and secured one First Class and one Business Class seat. Instead of offering her First Class seat to the passenger next to the child in Business Class, she tried to guilt the First Class passenger into moving back to Business Class. I don’t know who would agree to this ask.
AITA for not giving up my first class ticket for a kid?
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Here are the facts she presented:
- The poster’s boyfriend purchased two tickets in First Class for long-haul (12-hour) travel
- It was the woman’s first time in First Class
- The mother involved the flight attendant (who also tried to guilt the woman into moving back to Business Class)
- The airline did not offer compensation to downgrade her seat
- The mother tried to shame the woman into moving (saying that her young son would enjoy it more)
The woman’s boyfriend got involved and informed the flight attendant that he held Platinum status with the airline’s frequent flyer program and that he made purchase decisions for his company’s travel. The poster does not identify which airline they are flying. Based on flight length and there being First and Business Class cabins, it has to be a European, Middle Eastern, or Asian carrier.
Anthony’s Take: I think this woman was out of line and the flight attendant was even more so. The woman could have easily gotten the passenger seated next to her son seated in Business Class to take her First Class seat (and not the other way around). What do you think? Would you downgrade yourself? I would not.
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The post says economy…?
My wife reads AITA and she presented this one to me a few days ago. She says that most instances are fake and this one has fake written all over it.
For starters, where would she be flying back-to-back 12 hour flights? All I could come up with was the USA west coast to Australia, and if she was flying that then why not take a nonstop?
Any airline with first class would not allow a paying first class passenger to be harassed to give up their seat in the real world let alone join in the harassment.
The statement that the kid would enjoy first class more is simply idiotic and not something humans would say.
Why would the woman choose the AITA poster but not anyone else?
The boyfriend just sat for a while and let this happen until his ridiculous threats to take his business elsewhere?
This story has more holes than a truck full of Swiss cheese.