The woman bought a ticket on a plane next to her fiance, but the flight attendant moved her: the story caused outrage on the Internet
A TikTok user sparked a discussion after sharing a story about how her flight turned into a nightmare.
In the video, which has garnered more than 752,000 views, TikTok user Kiran (@venttokiran) shows herself sitting on an airplane. The camera cuts to other passengers and then back to Kiran in her seat. "My husband and I bought seats together, but my mom asked the stewardess to switch seats so she could be closer to her baby, so the stewardess switched us without asking," the video's author explained.
"So now we are sitting separately because they refused to talk to us when we asked what happened," Kiran said.
In the next video, she explained that one of the parents was already sitting with the children, and that her place was taken by "a mom who wanted to be with the rest of her family."
Kiran says she is "not angry with her parents". "It's not their fault. I understand you want to sit with your family, of course," she explains. "The problem is that no one asked me if I wanted to or not, and I paid for this place. I paid to sit with my fiancé!"
In the caption to the original video, Kiran states: "An unpopular opinion: if you want to sit together, you have to buy seats together."
However, as one user pointed out, the problem may not be the airline's fault.
"The Department of Transportation fines airlines if a child is not seated next to or sitting next to a parent," the commenter elaborated.