Netizen Asks, “Why Do Indians Sit In Other People’s Seats Without Permission?”; Sparks A Debate

Many of our travel experiences are dependent on our co-passengers. To make a journey smooth and convenient, fellow passengers’ proper cooperation is surely important. Unfortunately, some not-so-expected behaviours can cause chaos at times. Recently, Manjiri Indurkar tweeted about an incident when an uncle asked a woman to exchange her window seat and here’s what happened later.

Manjiri Indurkar Shared How An Uncle Asked A Young Woman To Replace Seats On A Flight

Taking to the X (formerly Twitter) platform, Manjiri wants more kindness (@ManjiriIndurkar) talked about an in-flight incident when an old male passenger asked a young woman passenger to simply exchange seats. He did not ask her permission before or asked to know about her response about this. He simply wanted her to take his seat instead of the window seat that she booked already.

Why do Indians sit in other people’s seats without permission and expect them to “understand”. An uncle was sitting in a young woman’s seat and asking her to take his. Hers is a window seat 10A. He wants her to take 20B. He’s grumpy she declined. The entitlement!

— Manjiri wants more kindness (@ManjiriIndurkar) November 21, 2023

Manjiri began her post by asking, “Why do Indians sit in other people’s seats without permission and expect them to understand”. She talked about a shocking flight incident when an uncle (aged passenger) was sitting in a young woman’s seat not by any mistake but very much willingly. Seeing the woman passenger, he asked her not to sit at her previously booked flight seat and instead exchange it with his seat. The surprising fact is that the woman’s seat was window seat 10A and the man booked the 20B seat.

The woman simply refused to exchange the seats with the uncle. Hearing a no from the young woman passenger, the uncle became grumpy. Manjiri shared the in-flight interaction and pointed out the “entitlement” here. This is something that has been experienced or seen by many passengers. There have been thousands of times when people asked passengers with window seats to exchange seats.

Such instances do impact many people’s travel experiences. When travelling with people who follow the rules and regulations, the journey becomes quite smooth and enjoyable. On the other hand, the same journey can be the entire opposite if some of the other passengers are not very well-behaved or do not adhere to basic rules.

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This Tweet Led To A Debate On Social Media

It has not even been an entire day since the poet posted this incident. Meanwhile, the tweet is going viral and has garnered more than 260K views, 4.7K likes, and hundreds of comments already. There are different comments with varied opinions under this tweet. The post has surely buzzed a debate among Netizens where everyone is sharing their views and experiences.

Debaditya (@darc_elestial) stated how Manjiri reached the conclusion that this is an Indian problem. “What was your sample data”, asked Debaditya.

So to reach to your conclusion that this is an Indian problem, what was your sample data?
How many Indians have you travelled with and out of them how many exhibited this behaviour?

— Debaditya (@darc_elestial) November 21, 2023

Passengers simply urging to exchange seats with others is not a recent problem or only limited to Indian passengers. Taking to the social media platform, many Internet users talked about the times when they faced similar experiences while travelling on a flight. It is never a good idea to ask someone to sit someplace else when they have already paid extra money to enjoy views from that window seat.

Here’s what Netizens are saying.

And then there’s the amazing millennial parents who want their kids to have a window seat but refuse to book it early for some reason? Weirdos fr, I couldn’t sleep in a 3 hour flight when I wanted to because they were showing such entitlement because they had a 4 y/o

— i (@ishanpvt) November 21, 2023

It’s not only Indians… oldies do it all over. I think their age let’s them grow horns of entitlement.

— Nivedita ‘Ramendu’ Shukla (@OfRunjh) November 21, 2023

Bro pura trauma has started because of older men who have given trauma to girls, their wives, their sons everyone.

— Jena (@mehtaversed) November 21, 2023

There are two ways. One way is to politely ask. Or ask via the hostess. You cant just come and sit and say it’s yours

— Avi Chan (@BNBavi) November 22, 2023

In trains I do agree to change the berths if I feel the other person needs it more than me … But window seat in flight is a no go..first of all you are paying extra.

— onetrueseven⁷ (@drappu92) November 21, 2023

Bruh this happened to me an aunty with 2 daughters sitting on my window seat the single one, thought they’d convince me I was like no aunty I ain’t a simp, move your girls I need to sleep.

— Jäy-D (@RuthJayD) November 21, 2023

Happened to me too. I refused to give up because I paid for it. He could’ve done the same if he wanted to sit there. Ugh.

— N (@notyourharika) November 21, 2023

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Always an uncle😂.
You just have to look fierce enough so they can’t even be grumpy when you decline.

— Soumya A. Sinha (@soumyasin98) November 22, 2023

Reminds me of this scene from Dear Zindagi. pic.twitter.com/3hih3u9RoB

— (He/Him)alay (@himosexuality) November 21, 2023

yep. i always say no to people asking for my seat. i always pick the window seat and say i paid extra money for it, so i am not going to just give it away.

— Sophie | Rescue Tunnel Workers (@azenithromycin) November 21, 2023

It’s so weird, just entitlement to think someone would give up their premium seat for you just cause you landed your ass on it first

— Simfit (@citizenbolario) November 21, 2023

Have you faced an incident like this?