I am currently sitting on a flight from Lisbon, Portugal to Philadelphia. Plane boards, people walk onto the plane, get their seats, put their bags up, etc.
Once that concludes, two absolutely disgustingly obese people from the back of the plane in what I only imagine is Basic Economy come up to an empty row in our Main Cabin Extra area and decide to take a seat. After scanning the next cabin up for empty seats, they settle into their newly claimed Main Cabin Extra seats like a squatter in an apartment in California that isn’t theirs and decide to make themselves at home.
The male (who I reiterate again, is a grotesque human) immediately takes off his shoes and puts his feet on the wall in front of him. They both pull out their TVs from the seat and tray tables (??????) and decide to start watching them and snacking prior to us taking off.
Naturally, a flight attendant has to come tell them to knock it off. Except they’re still occupying seats they didn’t pay for. So now myself and my girlfriend are stuck next to these morbidly obese and abhorrent humans for the next 7 hours. Now they’re coughing and wheezing nonstop while we wait to takeoff on the runway.
Truly cannot comprehend how these people’s brains operate. Blows my mind we let people get away with this stuff. Should require a scan of your boarding pass at the seat in anything above Economy in order to verify you’re sitting in the correct seat prior to takeoff to eliminate these shenanigans.