50 Travelling Dramas That Happened Because People Just Can’t Sit In Their Assigned Seats

I have 2 stories.

A woman took my window seat before I’d got there and pretend to be asleep. I let this one slide because she was larger and would have been a difficult barrier to getting to the bathroom.

A teenager in Panama wanted to sit next to his friends. Sorry boys that’s not how it works. I got a flight attendant and they moved. His friends didn’t like it but what were they going to do?

I was on a flight to France over the summer and these 2 people sat in seats that weren't theirs. They spread out all their little stuff and got settled in. Then when the people whose seats they were sitting in came along, they just told them to sit in their seats instead. And these two younger guys were just like, oh OK and that was kinda that. Except what the original seat nabbers didn't disclose is their seats weren't together, they were separated by a seat. So now another person came along and these two young guys were like, Oh just try to sit somewhere else and then the original seat people just sorta ignored it. This last single person also was pretty easy going and found another seat until that person came along. That's when the flight attendant stepped in to see what the confusion was and put an end to it and got everyone in their assigned seats.

So, kinda based on that. My guess is people do it because they probably run across people that either don't mind or don't protest. The behavior is somewhat rewarded. I don't know how you get to be like that, it's weird to me but maybe it's not a big deal.

Sitting in my window seat a few days ago and a confused seeming guy snags the aisle. Gestures for me to double check his BP, it’s the middle but no worries yet. Why crowd each other when he has to get up I figure?

Near the end of boarding, in comes another confused guy (this is delhi to dubai, cheaper carrier, and the plane is speaking a dozen languages). I verbally state fake aisle guy has the middle but blank looks. He smirks, looks at the actual aisle guy, points to the middle, moves a leg to the side, and the confused guy sits down, in the middle.

Impressive confidence in being an absolute seat thief. Aisle who became middle guy seemed ok (they both got XL seats so whatever?) but i still feel like i should have said it again.

I was an accidental seat stealer. I went w SO family on a 5 hour flight that included 2 kids, 2 elderly folks and 4 adults. We were all close to each and we're seated across the isle and also different rows, but all together. Well, the 'leader' of our group changed the seats so her child was not seated across the isle, but didn't tell anyone. I then sat in wrong spot, and the guy who's actual spot just sat somewhere else. And then another person also had to sit somewhere else. I watch the whole thing go down and was scoffing at the circus. I didn't find out until we were disembarking when he mentioned, that I started said circus

I had a woman asleep in my window seat.

I politely said, “You are in my seat.” The man in the middle seat said quietly “Could you sit in the aisle? I’m sorry. She fell asleep in the wrong seat. We’re on our honeymoon and we’ve been traveling.”

I’m an easy going guy. I sit down on the aisle.

The seat was DRENCHED. Like an entire water bottle was dumped out. My pants were wet.

And I realize this woman was never asleep.

So I got to choose between having a wet seat on the aisle next to assholes. Or having a wet seat on the window next to assholes.

Life is too short to be on the offense and on the look out for sociopaths. But they are out there.

I’m sure that marriage turned out great.

Something happened during that data entry breach for Frontier.

On the way home from vacation my younger brother and I were separated by a row. His socially awkward self asked my socially awkward self to handle a confrontation. So I casually asked the young girl if she was sure if she was sitting in the right seat (I’m a woman too). Her father jumped in and showed me her seat ticket and it was in fact the same seat number as my brothers. We had to ask the staff what to do since they double booked the same seat

That’s me recently. Had a deluxe class seat flying across the Pacific. Our cabin class only had 5 or 6 row of seats and they were all full. Took a walk to the back of the plane to stretch my legs and found the rear cabin was almost empty. I took the last center row of 4 seats and made myself a little bed. It was great.

I was flying SWA and lined up for boarding. Asked a bald guy in front of me what his boarding number was and he refused to tell me - said it doesn’t matter.

I said we board by number so it does matter. He told me to stop being a pussy do gooder.

I said, “I know you’re upset at life that you’re bald, but if you could just tell me your boarding number…”

He went nuclear and started screaming at me.

Security rolled up escorted him away and dude didn’t get to go on his flight.

I was recently on a flight where a family thought that their boarding zone was somehow also their seat assignment 🙃 and when I tried to explain to them what a boarding zone was, they were very, very confused. Some people just aren’t built for travel lol

A woman with a baby did this to me recently. Boarded first and took my window seat. Wtf am I gonna do, make her move the baby carrier while people wait behind me? Then she held the baby most of the flight and let it kick me. I like kids but she was just a d**k.