Woman Shares Hilarious Airplane Story About How She Saved A Stranger From An Unfair Seat Swap

The raging debate over plane etiquette has a new entrant, this time in the form of a quick-thinking passenger who captivated the internet by revealing how he saved another traveler from an unfair seat change request.

Seattle-based TikTok creator @no.christinayang shared the experience on a “four or five hour” flight from Hawaii to Seattle in a recent video, which has been viewed more than 2.5 million times.

According to the traveler, she was sitting in a row of three seats in premium economy class when someone asked the woman sitting next to her to change seats so she could sit next to her friend.

“I’m sitting in the window seat and right next to me in the middle seat is a petite Asian woman. I think she’s Japanese,’ she recalled.

“She was very soft-spoken and there was another person in the aisle seat.”

During the flight, the creator says that the passenger in the aisle seat asks the occupant in the middle seat to change seats.

“So the person in the aisle seat is traveling with another woman and her passenger says, ‘I want to sit next to my friend,'” she explained.

And he looks at the Asian woman next to me… he says, “Let’s change seats, I’m back in 26.”

Please note that we are in premium economy class. We’re like in row eight with all unlimited drinks and snacks. So the lady next to me says, “Oh, you know we switched seats? Um, okay, right.”

Then she starts to get up and I’m like, “No!”

According to TikToker, his defiant insistence that his seatmate stay in his original spot on the plane prompted the eager seat change applicant to offer a reason why he should want to move.

“Then the lady says, ‘Oh, but it’s a window seat, it’s so much better than the middle one you have,” she recalled.

‘I was like, ‘Except for the fact that we’re traveling together. Hello? We are both Asian, of course, we know each other. And 26 isn’t premium economy… it’s like you can smell the toilet back there. Not!”

‘Then the little Asian lady next to me is almost like standing up and… she looks at me and I’m like, “Sit down, Connie!”

‘Okay, I don’t know her name, I just called her Connie for some reason and she sat down. I guess I was meaner than the other lady.

The creator then continues, saying that the ‘lady in 26’ is ‘a little pissed off’ that she won’t be able to sit next to her friend.

“She said, ‘No, you guys won’t be traveling together, you just made it up,'” he said.

“And I look at the Asian woman next to me and I start talking to her in Cantonese, which is totally the wrong language for her, but this woman [in 26] She’s not Asian, so she won’t know the difference.

“The Asian woman looks at me and says yes, and then answers me in Japanese. And I’m like, “Mmhmm, that’s right.”

“I look at the lady who’s still standing there and I’m like, ‘Well, we’re going to keep talking about you in our language.’ So why don’t you go back to row 26, where you belong, okay? Because if you wanted to sit next to your friend, you should have booked her ticket next to her, not 20 rows back.”

The TikTok video has attracted thousands of comments, some criticizing the passenger who wanted the seat change and others finding humor on stage.

‘”Let’s change.” Not even, “Would you mind switching with me?” Some people have that right,” one person said.

‘Or her friend could have moved back in to sit with her. You don’t ask someone to lower the rating for your convenience,” added another.

A third person wrote: “I’m sure someone from rank 26 would have taken the free upgrade if it was that important.”

‘You’re a hero,’ someone else said simply.

“Connie got the assignment,” said one TikTok user.

“May your coffee always be hot, green lights on your units and parking spaces closed in the lot,” wrote another.

This recent video is the latest in a long line of incidents that have sparked an online debate about airplane etiquette.

In November, a mother revealed the ‘correct way’ to ask an airline passenger to change seats.

Previously, a man went viral on Reddit after revealing that he had refused to give up his extra-legroom seat on a 10-hour flight to a mother who wanted to swap so she and her young son could sit next to her. husband.

His actions sparked a huge discussion about whether he was wrong for not making the switch, with TikToker Anna Lyn Cook revealing that she was in a similar situation, but insisting that she had figured out the correct way to ask someone to change seats.

Anna, a mother of two, who resides in the US, explained in a recent video posted to TikTok that she thought her family would have to split up on her recent KLM flight, because there weren’t four seats next to each other available. . her when she went to pick them up.

However, upon entering the plane, he decided to approach someone who was sitting in the seat next to his family members and ask if he would be willing to take his seat.

Anna explained that her seat was “much better” than his, as it had “much more legroom”, adding that she would “never ask anyone to change unless I could offer them a better option”.

He described the seat he wanted as “quite narrow” while his was much roomier.

The mother added that the stranger seemed unhappy about having to sit next to her two young children, so he was more than happy to make the switch with her.

Days after this video became a talking point, the debate was taken to a new level after an irate passenger launched a new discussion about whether or not it’s okay to disperse on a flight.

A Reddit user named Emily Kauai, from Florida, left many people on the web divided after she shared a photo of her completely squashed in her seat because the man sitting next to her had spread his legs so wide that they spilled into her area. .

In the image, which was posted to the app earlier this month under the Well That Sucks thread, the unidentified man could be seen sitting splayed on a recent Southwest Airlines flight.

His left leg went well beyond the space of his seat and entered Emily’s, leaving her sitting with her legs together, and his post sparked a huge discussion about whether or not his actions were acceptable.

“This was how my entire four hour flight went today,” he captioned the post. I am a five foot eight inch female.