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Daily Mirror
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Milo Boyd

Passenger slams ‘classist’ people who won’t give up their plane seats for families

A plane passenger has argued it is "classist" to not give your seat up for families in almost all circumstances.

In the long-running debate about when it is and isn't okay to ask someone to swap seats with you on a plane, one Reddit user has thrown a heap of petrol on the fire.

They argued that only those who have mobility issues, the elderly or "some other reason beyond comfort for strongly preferring a seat on a plane" like being very tall have the right to stick in their given seat in all cases.

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