A plane passenger has witnessed their, “First bold seat thief “, whose series of seat-swapping maneuvers for a surprising reason left them—and likely others—stunned.
The incident unfolded on a regional flight out of Houston in a 1-2 seat configuration, where one traveler repeatedly tried to claim seats that didn’t belong to her.
According to the original poster (OP), as passengers boarded, a man approached his assigned window seat, only to find a woman sitting in it. When he pointed out the mix-up, she insisted the seat was hers.
‘Do you think I can stay here?’
He showed his boarding pass, proving otherwise, and she reluctantly moved—though not to her correct seat. Instead, she relocated four rows back to an exit-row seat and settled in…