Man’s plane act applauded after seat steal

A man has been applauded for what he said to a fellow plane passenger after she sat in his seat and later wanted to switch back to her original spot.

A man has been applauded for what he said to a fellow passenger after she sat in his seat and later wanted to switch back to her original spot.

Chase Cangelosi, from Texas in the US, was boarding an evening United Airlines flight this week, travelling from Mexico City back home to Austin when he spotted a woman in his window seat.

“I mention to the woman who was in my seat ‘heyyy I’m seat F’, and she says ‘I’m more comfortable here’. I said nothing else and sat in the middle,” he explained on Instagram Threads on Monday.

Chase Cangelosi, from Texas in the US, has been applauded for how he handled a situation when a fellow passenger sat in his plane seat before wanting to switch back to her original spot. Picture: Instagram

The 28-year-old realtor said a few minutes later, the woman discovered her seat TV didn’t work, while everyone else’s did.

“She asked to switch back and I said ‘no, I’m comfortable here’. Now I’m watching Bob’s Burgers and she just has to look out the night-time window.”

Mr Cengelosi said he didn’t care enough to say anything more to the woman when she was in his seat, adding she was talking on the phone facing the window during the 50 minute flight.

Unsurprisingly, Mr Cangelosi’s post blew up, attracting 122,000 likes and 4,000 comments with many applauding how he handled the situation.

He told her she was in his window seat only for her to respond, ‘I am comfortable here’.

“She’s so daring to ask for a switch again. What a Karen,” one person joked.

“Sometimes Karma is sitting right on your shoulder,” wrote another.

A third added: “I just can’t with the audacity of some people. Lady, if F isn’t your seat, get the F out of it. No one cares where you are comfortable. The entitlement nauseates me,’ wrote someone else.”

However, when she discovered the TV monitor on the back of the head rest was not working, she wanted to switch to her original seat – and that’s when Chase served her a sassy response.

One person suggested he should have taken it a step further: “After telling her I was comfortable with the working TV seat I would have turned the TV off,” they said.

Meanwhile, a Brazilian bank worker who refused to swap seats with a crying toddler on a flight is now suing the airline and the passenger who filmed her.

The viral spat unfolded on a GOL Airlines flight from Rio de Janeiro to Belo Horizonte on December 4, when Jeniffer Castro, 29, refused to give up her window seat to a young boy.

The child reportedly had a window seat in another row but insisted on sitting in Ms Castro’s spot and began throwing a fit when he didn’t get what he wanted.

News.com.au ran a poll asking if the woman was in the wrong for refusing to give up her seat, to which 99 per cent of the 37,833 people who voted said ‘absolutely not’ and that it was her right to say no.

Instead of drawing widespread condemnation, the clip, filmed by a fellow passenger, backfired online, with many siding with Ms Castro for standing her ground.