My husband asked to swap seats on an airplane then the other passenger tried to pull a fast one

Another seat swapper strikes again as a flight passenger is sharing her first experience with “seat swap shenanigans.”Posting in the “r/delta” forum on Reddit, a user wrote that she and her husband were on a “long-haul flight” prompting them to upgrade to comfort-plus in a “2-3-2 configuration.““We each got an aisle seat with someone seated between us, so my husband decided to offer to switch his aisle seat with the fellow in between,” the woman wrote.“Here’s where the strange part comes in,” she added. “Fellow in the middle is happy to swap, but then he wants me to swap with his wife, so they won’t be separated.

I declined because where would that leave me?”The woman said that if she accepted the offer, she would have ended up in an economy seat.“Dude went back to economy and found someone to switch with [him] so he could be with his wife.I guess he upgraded to C+ middle and hoped to pull a fast one,” the user said. She revealed that a “delightful woman from Germany got a free upgrade and is happily sitting in the aisle seat.”“I’ve read of several seat-swap shenanigans, but I never expected to experience it myself,” the post concluded. Redditors took to the comments section to discuss the seat-swapping phenomenon and share their own flying experiences.“Here’s a wacky idea that could work in 99% of the seat-swap posts I see here,” said one user. “Buy the seat you want and sit there.

If the seat you want isn’t available anymore, buy the best option and sit there.”The same user continued, “If you can’t be separated from your traveling companion for the length of a flight, drive.”“We [have] offered to swap more as a courtesy to the person in the middle than as a necessity of sitting together,” commented one person.Another Redditor wrote, “Nice that it worked out.”“I would never ask someone to switch seats,” said yet another person. One user on the platform wrote, “Just got hom...