When a travel influencer tried to make herself comfortable during a long-distance trip, the Gen Zer never expected to be psychically attacked for committing what some social media whistleblowers have deemed the “rudest” flying offence.
“Y’all this girl just shoved my seat forward and said I’m not allowed to recline for my 10-hour flight because it’s too much for her,” Taylor Futch, 26, from Florida said in a TikTok.
“What do I do?” she asked her more than 1.9 million video viewers.
But online advisers with opposing positions on the flight plight were hopelessly divided over which tripper was actually tripping.
“Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. I wouldn’t like it if someone done it to me so I don’t do it to them,” scolded a commenter in support of the disgruntled flyer.
“Y’all are insane … if I paid for a seat that reclines [I’m going to] recline it!!! And if the person behind you recline theirs also … they have the same amount of room,” retorted someone in support of Ms Futch.
Hoping to win more folks over, the passenger provided additional context surrounding the sky-high spat in a subsequent post.
“We’re up in the air, this girl and her boyfriend are behind me with her mum,” Ms Futch recalled. “I’m like, ‘alright, it’s a safe altitude, I can put my seat back.’”
But her attempt at lounging was immediately thwarted by the no-nonsense jetsetter’s shove.
“I was like, ‘What that f**k?,’” said Ms Futch. “I’m on anxiety medicine, I’ve had lots of wine. I was like, ‘B***h, what? Like, let’s go.’”
The unapologetic space invader claims her opponent’s mother then chimed in, explaining that the girl would be “uncomfortable” with a reclined chair squishing her for the duration of the excursion.
But Ms Futch remained unfazed.
“It’s a 10-hour flight, I want to get comfy, I’m exhausted,” she said, adding that her in-flight foes continued “throwing a fit” until a stewardess was called to mediate the beef.
“The flight attendant was like, ‘Put [the seat] up for food service,’” said Ms Futch. “Which I always do to be respectful.”
But when the crabby cabin crew member allegedly rolled her eyes in aggravation over the dispute, Ms Futch took matters into her own hands.
“I was like, ‘Honestly, f***k this,’” she said. “The entire flight, I kept pushing the button and pushing my seat back cause [the other woman] was inching it forward the entire f*****g flight — it was so annoying.”
“You should be able to recline your seat on a 10-hour flight,” Ms Futch ranted. “I told her, ‘If you want to be comfy, get first class.”
And the avid adventurer’s fellow seat stretchers rallied alongside her.
“You were 100 per cent in the right,” applauded a reclining advocate.
“I will always recline because that’s the ONLY thing I get with my cheap coach seat,” cheered another.
“You deserve to be comfortable,” a separate supporter insisted. “Recline or don’t recline it’s up to the seat holder. “My comfort is MY COMFORT!”
A similarly scary seat squabble broke out between two unidentified female flyers in November. Footage of the mid-flight feud went viral on X.
And a reclining war erupted during a 30,000-foot high journey from Paris to Los Angeles back in August.
Following the international fallout, aeroplane etiquette coach Julia Esteve Boyd chimed in online, saying: “It can be irritating or uncomfortable for the person seated behind.”
“However, it is completely reasonable to recline your seat if you want to.”