A MAN was slammed by a mum during a flight after he refused to swap seats with her daughter so they could sit together.
However, people are divided about who was in the right.
The 26-year-old was travelling with his girlfriend on a four-hour flight, he explained on Reddit, and had booked the centre and window seat, paying extra to sit together.
However, a mum who was travelling with her eight-year-old daughter then asked him to move so they could sit together.
He explained: "We asked about the seating assignments and the mother stated that the airline crew told her that she and her daughter must sit next to each other and that the centre seat belongs to her daughter."
However, a flight attendant said that the flight was full and they they had to stay in their seats, but could ask him and his girlfriend to switch.
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The man continued: "While the daughter started to move back to her seat, the father in the next aisle tried to guilt trip me stating 'she’s an 8-year-old girl, c’mon man'."
"I told him that if the mother was more professional about the situation instead of lying to us, there wouldn’t be an issue.
"He then yelled “f*** you”, that I am the reason the world is f***** up and to wait till I have a daughter to understand."
He asked if he was in the wrong on the forum, with some people saying it wasn't the mum's fault.
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One person said: "I expect that with the travel challenges this summer there are a lot of families who are getting their seats split up due to flight cancellations (so failure to plan ahead isn’t the problem)."
Another person agreed: "People need to get off their high horse and give up a seat."
However, most people were on his side, with lots of other parents chipping in.
One person wrote: "I would never plan a flight with my young kids without making sure they were in seats next to me ahead of time."
A second person said: "I was flying with my 3 kids and paid extra to make sure we were seated together. If I hadn’t and no one would switch, that would be MY fault as the parent."
It's not the first flight problem which as split opinion online.
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A man recently refused to move from the window seat despite someone else paying for it.
And a woman divided opinion after she tried to get a family banned from the flight.
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