A WOMAN has divided people online after refusing to move from her seat to allow a family to sit together.
In a series of videos on Tiktok, parent Maresa Friedman revealed how a family of three had asked her to move, so they could all sit in the same row.
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However, she had booked her seat specifically ahead of the flight and refused to budge.
Although some insisted she was in the wrong, Maresa refused to accept any blame, instead suggesting that the family should have been better prepared.
In a caption on one of her videos, Maresa (@maresasd) wrote: “I am not a villain for not moving from the seat in first class I paid full fare for.
“I’m also a mom so it’s called planning ahead.”
Maresa went on to explain that the first class section of the plane she was flying on had rows of four seats, with two seats either side of an aisle.
The family wanted to have a row to themselves, so asked if she could move to allow it, but she refused.
Instead, she suggested the family ask the people at the front of the economy class section if they wanted to switch seats instead, which Maresa claims didn’t go down well.
She said: “I told them, ‘if all of you want to sit together, in a row, I’m sure you could ask the people in the bulkhead behind you.
“I think they would be super pumped to sit up here so that the three of you could sit together.
“To which, of course, I just got the look.”
Maresa doubled down on her stance, saying the family’s problems were all “preventable” and that it shouldn’t be up to other people to sort out their situation.
She continued: “Why is it on everybody else to accommodate?
“If this was on the bus and we had to give up a couple of seats for a couple of stops, sure.
“But, no. I have two kids, I have been there and even in the early stages, I would buy my baby a seat, it would be next to me.
“But when you’re travelling with kids you have to tell the airline to group the reservations together and that you’re travelling with a minor.”
Plenty of people were on Maresa’s side, agreeing that it’s not her responsibility to move for the family.
One wrote: “I’d just say, ‘Your inability to properly plan your seating arrangement is not my problem’.”
Another said: “Poor planning on their part doesn’t constitute an emergency on my part.”
However, other people suggested she wasn’t being entirely fair.
One person argued: “It’s not always possible to get seated together even planning ahead.”
A second added: “It’s called just being a nice person. Don’t see the issue with switching to a different 1st class seat.”
Meanwhile, this is the reason why switching seats on a plane could be dangerous.
This passenger refused to move to let a family of four sit together.
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