The flight attendant said nobody could be moved as everyone had already paid for their seats.
The 18-year-old unidentified passenger, who is thought to be from the US, posted on Reddit to describe how, during a 12-hour flight, he found that an “obese man was taking up a good chunk” of his seat.
She called him rude and escorted him off the plane after he questioned her and before calling the airline “terrible.”
The overwhelming majority of people agreed that it was his behavior, not that of the other passenger or airline, that had been unacceptable.
“From the way you’ve written the post, I’m going to say YTA. Because often it’s not what we say, it’s how we say it. It probably would’ve been handled very differently if you had handled it differently. I know air travel can make people turn into idiots, so please everyone, don’t be that idiot.”
Someone else said:
“Hard YTA. OP behaved like a massive jerk. The fact that the poor man knew you were complaining about him tells me you were loud and rude. You are also fat phobic how do you know there wasn’t a medical issue causing him to be larger?”
“Yeah, quietly telling the flight attendant that you would like to be moved is the appropriate thing. If they can’t move you, you just make the best of it. It’s a flight. They’re not asking you to move into that seat forever. YTA.”
“NTA honestly would have done the same thing. What did they expect? And also how is it fatphobic to want to sit in the whole seat you paid for?”
But another argued:
“You are a fatphobic s**t – not because you want to be comfortable but for humiliating someone and referring to obesity of ‘lack of discipline’ (which also shows you don’t understand the science of obesity.”
‘You’re the a******. Not for being uncomfortable and wanting your seat changed, but for how you handled the whole situation.’
‘You did not need to insult the man right next to you and the airline just to get your point across. All of that makes you TA.’
Another wrote: ‘YTA. You didn’t even have the decency to complain to the flight attendant privately, and wrongfully took out your frustration on them.’
