Woman refuses to give up first-class airplane seat for a child after an ask from his mom

A woman has explained why she refused to swap seats with a six-year-old boy so he could sit in first class with his mom.

After she was made to feel guilty by the flight attendant and the young boy’s mom, the woman took to Reddit’s popular confession forum, Am I The A**hole, to ask others if they thought she was in the wrong. The Reddit poster admitted her boyfriend didn’t believe so.

“A few weeks ago, my (21F) boyfriend (27M) surprised me with a first-class ticket for a long-haul flight,” she started. “He’s been doing well in his career and wanted to treat me, and I was really excited because I’d never flown first class before.”

The duo was set to embark on two 12-hour flights back-to-back, and the airline they were flying with was well-known for its first-class section. According to the Redditor, she wasn’t accustomed to the luxurious nature of first-class, especially because she’d never flown in anything other than economy class.

She noted: “I grew up lower middle class, and I had never ever flown higher than the cheapest seats on a plane before.”

That said, the Reddit user’s experience was abruptly interrupted 20 minutes before the flight took off.

“A flight attendant approached me with a woman and a young kid (maybe around six years old),” the Redditor explained. “The woman explained that she had booked a first-class ticket for herself and her son, but due to a booking error, he ended up in economy.”

The mother thought she’d ask the Reddit writer if she’d switch her seat with her son for him to experience first class, too. The Redditor wasn’t interested. Though she felt sorry for the child, she explained that her first-class seat was a gift from her boyfriend, and she wanted to sit in it as much as the mom wanted her son to.

She added: “I politely declined and explained that it was my first time in first class and I wanted to experience it.”

“The woman seemed pretty upset and tried to argue that her son would appreciate it more than me, and that it was unfair because I didn’t even pay for the ticket myself,” the Redditor continued.

According to the woman, it seemed the flight attendant agreed with the mother, urging her to be more “understanding.” At this point, the…