Flight passenger's 'bar buddy' called out for seat squatting: 'So awkward'

Whether person oregon foe, flyers mightiness beryllium unsure who they tin spot erstwhile it comes to getting their spot stolen connected a plane.

One rider heading from Chicago to New York City took to Reddit to stock a "seat stealer" story.

In the forum "r/delta," the idiosyncratic said that they went to an Irish barroom successful the Chicago Midway International Airport for a portion and began chatting with a chap patron.

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"Joked astir with the feline adjacent to maine astir his weak-looking old-fashioned, to which helium rolled his eyes and agreed with me, besides showing his $30 tab for said mediocre drink. He near for the lounge aft getting [a] notification," the idiosyncratic wrote.

The idiosyncratic said they and their spouse had been upgraded to archetypal class.

"Got connected the level and my barroom buddy was successful our seat. I showed him my summons and helium moved aside. I said, nooo atrocious we person some seats. He mumbled and moved backmost to the archetypal enactment of comfortableness plus," the idiosyncratic wrote successful the post.

A Reddit idiosyncratic (not pictured) shared that a "bar buddy" attempted to seat-squat successful archetypal people aft grabbing drinks astatine the airdrome barroom anterior to the flight.  (iStock)

"He wasn’t rude, but it was truthful awkward. I’m like, bro I thought we were friends," the station concluded.

Reddit users took to the comments conception to sermon the encounter.

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"You aren’t friends. He’s a spot stealer. Don’t telephone a spot stealer a friend," commented 1 blunt user.

Another idiosyncratic added, "It astounds maine the radical who deliberation they tin get distant with sneaking into an wholly antithetic people of work similar that."

"You aren’t friends. He’s a spot stealer. Don’t telephone a spot stealer a friend," commented 1 blunt user. (iStock)

"I stake this wasn’t his archetypal time. People bash this due to the fact that they cognize they tin get distant with it oregon person to beryllium successful their assigned spot astatine worst," said 1 Redditor.

"Sounds similar homeboy was a spot tipsy. Surprised helium was capable to board," different idiosyncratic wrote.

"Small world," a idiosyncratic commented.

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"Who steals seats, knowing it tin conscionable beryllium shown that it's not their spot and they'd beryllium told to move. It's wild," added a user.

"I don’t recognize wherefore these radical deliberation the FAs [flight attendants] won’t announcement idiosyncratic successful a FC spot that isn’t expected to beryllium there," said another.

The word "seat squatters" has been utilized to notation to those who rob the seats that were selected and paid for by different travelers. (iStock)

Brandon Blewett, Texas-based writer of the publication "How to Avoid Strangers connected Airplanes," told Fox News Digital that helium sees much radical encountering airplane spot squatters.

"Let the formation attendant grip it. Nobody wants to spell viral successful a reel titled, ‘Passenger meltdown astatine 30,000 feet,'" Blewett advised. 

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He said sitting successful idiosyncratic else’s spot tin origin disruptions to an full flight.

"[Squatter] encounters often pb to delays that often cascade, starring to missed connections and frustrated passengers passim the cabin," Blewett added.