![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/passengers-slammed-as-idiots-for-trying-to-save-rows-of-plane-seats-with-their-bags/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/1_GettyImages-1344771294.jpg&description=A passenger has expressed their fury after they got onto a Southwest flight and saw a family attempting to reserve a number of additional seats with their belongings When flying, there are plenty of unwritten rules about what's acceptable behaviour amongst fellow passengers. Switching seats can be a hotly debated topic in the UK - but in the US, there can be further drama on airlines where you don't get assigned a seat at all. Southwest is one of those airlines, and one family caused quite a stir when they tried to reserve seats by putting their bags everywhere. When travelling on a train or a bus, popping your hand bag or coat on the seat next to you is part of accepted convention - as long as you remove it if it's busy. However, it seems the passengers on a Southwest Airlines flight didn't receive a memo. "As we were getting on the plane a family had laid out their purses, bags, and blankets to save not one, but two rows of seats behind them," one irate flyer explained on Reddit. "The two old ladies of the family sat opposite aisle seats and tried to save the ones next to them as well, for their family in the C boarding group." While the passenger's wife did "not want to be confrontational", the spurned customer decided to make their grievances known. "I loudly said 'this is not kindergarten you can't save seats' and threw their blanket off to the side and sat down with my wife in the aisle and middle," they continued. "We put their seat saving blanket on the aisle seat and several people asked if the seat was taken, I told them that someone put that here and we didn't know who and they were free to sit down, but no one wanted to take the seat, despite the flight attendant saying over the speaker that you cannot save seats and don't put stuff in empty seats. People need to grow a spine." In a later addition to the post, the spurned traveller added: "It was absolutely entitlement and I wasn't going to enable it. Thankfully two nice old ladies eventually moved the p){kind=link}
A passenger has expressed their fury after they got onto a Southwest flight and saw a family attempting to reserve a number of additional seats with their belongings
When flying, there are plenty of unwritten rules about what’s acceptable behaviour amongst fellow passengers. Switching seats can be a hotly debated topic in the UK – but in the US, there can be further drama on airlines where you don’t get assigned a seat at all.
Southwest is one of those airlines, and one family caused quite a stir when they tried to reserve seats by putting their bags everywhere.
When travelling on a train or a bus, popping your hand bag or coat on the seat next to you is part of accepted convention – as long as you remove it if it’s busy. However, it seems the passengers on a Southwest Airlines flight didn’t receive a memo.
“As we were getting on the plane a family had laid out their purses, bags, and blankets to save not one, but two rows of seats behind them,” one irate flyer explained on Reddit. “The two old ladies of the family sat opposite aisle seats and tried to save the ones next to them as well, for their family in the C boarding group.”