Flight attendant warns of scary reason you should never switch seats with strangers

Agreeing to swap seats at 30,000 feet might seem like the generous thing to do — but there’s an excellent reason you should always say no, according to airline insiders.A lot of folks refuse the request for various reasons — which can frequently lead to dramatic, unscheduled in-flight entertainment. But a flight attendant is now warning big-hearted travelers who usually don’t mind making the change of the potential chaos that can ensue — as a result of the seat switcheroo. “Just beware!,” Leanna Coy, a cabin crew member, based in Connecticut, advised in the caption of her cautionary clip.The title: “Why you shouldn’t switch seats on the plane.”“If the person you switch with does anything to act up on the plane, that can now come back on you,” Coy told a TikTok audience of over 19,000 viewers. The skyway savant explained she was recently a passenger on a United Airlines flight to Jordan, when a woman asked her to forfeit an aisle seat for the same accommodations in a different row. “Normally, I am absolutely 100% against changing seats,” said Coy.“Your lack of planning should not constitute me having to move.”However, in effort to “not be a b–ch, for once” she kindly made the trade — only to be thunderstruck with fear that she’d made a terrible mistake seconds later. “If this lady decides to go smoke in the bathroom or something, that could come back on me because my name is gonna be on the manifest,” Coy carped, adding that the worry made her “anxious” as the flight took off. “Then I realized, I’m flying United,” she said.

“If you know anything about United’s service, if you want to buy drinks or anything, you have to put your card onto the app ahead of time, which I’ve done before.”Uploading debit or credit card information onto an airline’s app typically grants customers the option to buy in-flight goodies through contactless payment.Rather than having to whip out the piece of plastic, th...