Seat squatting is a new flight trend (Image: Getty)
Plane passengers have been issued a warning over the new “seat squatting” trend.
“Seat squatters” are people who grab unoccupied seats without checking with the flight attendants or even waiting for boarding to be completed.
Influencer Shannon Ella after she had this experience on her flight, which now has over 212,000 views on .
On her flight, someone took her seat, but not mistakenly. When she told him it was hers, he didn’t move and expected her to give it to him.
“Is that a thing that people are doing on planes now? They just sit in your seat and just go like, ‘no, it’s mine, I sat there first so minesies?’” she asked.
Comments on TikToks discussing the trend are full with stories from passengers who have experienced it.
One traveller even mentioned an incident when she was flying with a six-month-old and an 18-month-old and handed them both to the lady who was in her seat.
“She quickly found her own seat,” she said.
Acommented on a : “I’m a flight attendant and once a passenger says someone is in my seat, I 100% make them move to their assigned seat.”
Anecdotes are also filling up forums. A passenger claimed on that they saw three “seat squatters” on a flight.
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They said: “First was a guy that was supposed to be in 28C who was all the way up in 12B and was trying to argue it was his seat.
“The next was a lady in 18A who was being adamant with the seat holder that she needed to be by the window and not in the middle.
“The next was a couple that was supposed to be in 24C and D and decided to camp out and plant their flag in 24A and B.”
People are also sharing solutions on how to fix it—the ideas flying around include selling them the seat or denying them boarding.