A traveller has revealed how a flight attendant kicked him off a plane after he complained about being seated next to an obese man.
The anonymous flyer, 18, was gearing up for a 12 hour flight when he found out he was seated next to an “obese man”.
He took to Reddit to explain how the man was “taking up a good chunk” of his seat so he decided to call a flight attendant over to discuss the issue.
She explained to him that as the seat had been paid for, he could not be moved as the flight was full.
He began to question her and called the airline “terrible” before she made the decision to kick him off the flight for being rude.
Sharing his post online, the man said: “I was travelling to my home country. On my second connecting flight, which is also by far my longest one being over 12 hours long, I had the delightful sight of an obese man that was taking up a good chunk of my seat.
“I am not a small guy myself. I have quite broad shoulders and am around 190 cm, so a full seat would already have been uncomfortable.
“I told the flight attendant about this issue and she told me that the seat was paid for by this obese person and the flight was full.
“I asked the flight attendant how it’s possible that my seat still rendered as available if it was being used for someone’s literal rolls, as this wasn’t an American airline (non-American airlines don’t get overbooked). I then added on how this airline wasn’t absolutely terrible just a few years ago (it wasn’t just this incident they just went downhill in quality).”
However he said this confrontation hadn’t gone down well with the flight attendant.
He said: “These comments prompted the flight attendant to call me rude and just made her double down on me getting kicked off the plane, though she reassured me I’d be compensated for this trouble as I told her I wasn’t travelling for vacation.
“The fat man took his opportunity to call me a fatphobic sh**. Some other people around gave me the stink eye.
“I know they think I’m a bad person for this, but on the other hand I’m having to pay for the lack of discipline of another person as well as this sh****** airline’s booking system. Hell I’d rather they called me the day before.”
He added there were further consequences to his actions, explaining: “The airline staff sent a letter of complaint that I got appealed and the consequences in the complaint (being a temporary ban) were removed less than an hour later.
“In the letter of complaint it said I was being rude to other passengers and the staff. Since it got appealed so quick, and I got to travel the next day anyway, I’m really not sure if I’m the a********.”
However many users were shocked by his behaviour, with one writing: “You sound so insufferable and unsympathetic. YTA.”
Another commented: ‘You mention discipline, which its a lot easier to discipline ourselves to be a decent human being than it is to lose weight. What’s your excuse?”
One urged him to be more compassionate, writing: “The man sitting next to you is a human being. No one wants to be uncomfortable throughout a long haul flight but there are ways to go about it! Try being kind and compassionate – you may get somewhere. If you don’t get anywhere, then draft a complaint afterwards and the airline will more than likely compensate you.”
