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<\/p>\nA Ryanair passenger who refused to move seats for a mum with a young baby – after paying for his seat – has divided opinion.<\/p>\n
The passenger posted on Reddit that he had paid specifically for the middle seat in a row for a two-hour flight and was seated next to a woman with her young baby.<\/p>\n
The Reddit user, under the name u\/aerdnaras, wrote that when he took his seat the woman asked if he would like to move to the back of the plane to switch seats with her husband – which he turned down.<\/p>\n
He wrote: "I bought my seat on row 4B which is in the middle, it may sound odd to buy a middle, but I wanted it to be as close to the exit as possible and there were no other seats available.<\/p>\n
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"The flight was landing on a minor secondary airport which has limited train connections so if I wanted to catch the best train, I'd have to run outside the plane and do passport control ASAP.<\/p>\n
"If I missed that train, [the] other option was to wait an hour and a half, or get a $70 cab – so that's why I paid for that seat."<\/p>\n
He added: "I board my flight, tired as hell, and I have this lady with her child of [a few] months quietly sleeping sitting in the window seat.<\/p>\n
"She immediately asks if I can move to row 18 so she can sit with her husband. I just said I paid for the seat and I did not want to move.<\/p>\n
"Whole row was looking at me and I could see the mother texting the husband about me. Eventually no one was sitting next to the husband so she moved down the plane."<\/p>\n
After dividing opinion on the flight, he asked whether he was in the wrong as "everyone was judging him" despite other passengers refusing to help the mum.<\/p>\n
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The admission online has split opinion, but most users were in favour of the man's decision and believe he had no obligation to move.<\/p>\n
One person wrote: "It was your seat, you selected it. You have no obligations to give it up to anyone if you do not want to."<\/p>\n
Another added: "You bought your seat, you didn't want to move. If I took a flight with my three kids and wife and we weren't all together, it wouldn't bother me. People are so entitled. You did nothing wrong."<\/p>\n
And a third user said: "Their lack of preparation isn't your fault. They were cheap and hoping to con\/cajole someone into moving."<\/p>\n
Some users, however, thought the man should have thought of the mum's situation and paid her a favour by moving.<\/p>\n
A user wrote: "I get that you paid for That. Exact. Seat, but really? Why couldn\u2019t you just do someone a favour? Have you ever been in a position that you needed a favour and that person just blew you off or was just plain rude?<\/p>\n
"I just hope that in your future strangers are more considerate than you were."<\/p>\n