Woman Upset After Fellow Passenger Tells Her She Shouldn’t Fly Business Class with an Infant: ‘It’s an Unspoken Rule’

A traveler says another passenger scolded her for booking a business class seat for herself and her baby — and now she’s wondering if she was out of line.

In a post on the popular Reddit forum “Am I the A——?”, the woman explained that she recently flew from New York City to Zurich with her 9-month-old daughter. Because it was an overnight flight, she decided to use some points to upgrade.

“It was a red-eye, so I figured I had some points to burn and I booked a business class [seat] … so both of us would be able to get some sleep,” she wrote.

But one of her fellow passengers apparently didn’t like what she saw.

“A woman comes to take the seat next to me and I hear her say pretty loudly, ‘Are you kidding me?’ ” the Redditor recalled.

The flight took off and, according to the original poster (OP), her baby slept peacefully for about three hours. When the child woke up hungry, she cried for “two minutes” before settling once she was given a bottle.

At that point, the woman in the next seat lost her temper.

“This woman next to me, who had been sleeping, flies up, proceeds to give me the finger and stomps over to the flight attendant deck where she loudly tells them that I need to be ‘put in economy,’ ” the OP wrote.

When the angry passenger returned, she doubled down, telling the OP that “babies don’t belong in business class” and that if she couldn’t “control” her infant, she shouldn’t be there at all.

The Reddit user said she responded that if the woman wanted full control over who sat near her, she should “fly her a– private.” After that exchange, the two didn’t speak for the rest of the flight.

Later, the OP shared the story with her mother-in-law — and was surprised when she took the other woman’s side. According to the post, the mother-in-law said she agreed with the upset passenger and claimed “it’s an unspoken rule that if you’re flying with a child, you should fly economy.”

“I think this is absurd,” the OP wrote. “Why should I be in economy if I don’t have to be just because I have a baby? That seems insane to me.”

She ended her post with the classic forum question: “AITA [am I the a——]?”

Commenters overwhelmingly reassured her that she wasn’t in the wrong. Many said she was fully entitled to use her points or money on any seat she chose, baby or not — and that the real issue was the other woman’s sense of entitlement.

“Honestly, [in] my opinion … if you’re travelling long haul in this day and age without noise cancelling headphones, that’s on you,” one person wrote.

Another commenter shared their own experience: “I had a guy give me the worst stink eye when I came onto a flight with a baby. Baby was quiet, and the guy snored like an industrial machine the entire time.”

The same user added, “There are 8 billion people on the planet. We’re going to have to hang out with each other once in a while. Even babies, and even on planes.”

One more person summed it up clearly: “NTA [not the a——]. Business class is about getting more comfortable seats and nicer food. It’s not about not having to sit next to a baby. That spoiled rich woman can deal with it just like everyone else.”