A mom flying from NYC to Zurich learned the hard way that business class isn’t always baby-friendly — at least according to one furious seatmate.
Reddit’s notorious AITA forum got a fresh flap when a user (@stone2891) shared how her baby was deemed unwelcome in the business-class seat she paid for.
The drama kicked off when a woman plopped down next to the mom and her nine-month-old and muttered, loud enough for half the cabin to hear: “Are you kidding me?”
The mom, who had splurged on business class lay-flat seats for a red-eye so she and her infant could get some sleep, said the baby snoozed for hours — and when she cried briefly to feed, chaos ensued.
Her seatmate reportedly flipped her the finger, stormed off to the flight attendants, and declared: “Babies don’t belong in business class and if I can’t ‘control my infant’ I shouldn’t be there.”
Unfazed, the mom fired back in her own words: “With all due respect, f–k off. If she didn’t want the roulette of who she sat next to, she could fly her a– private.”
Even her mother-in-law weighed in, siding with the business-class skeptic: “Babies shouldn’t be in business class,” she reportedly said.
But the mom called that rule “absurd,” insisting that little ones deserve their luxury (on an almost 8-hour flight in this case) just like anyone else.
The Reddit post has since ignited a heated debate online, with users split over etiquette versus entitlement.
One blasted the backlash as “effing elitist and gross,” arguing that parents don’t “lose their right to luxury” just because they have a baby — and that it’s unfair to dump all the crying and chaos on economy passengers.
“I’ve had two adults on a flight who talked the whole 10 hour flight. An infant will eventually get tired and go to sleep,” argued a commenter.
Another sympathized — but stopped short of defending the other passenger’s outburst. “I can understand where the other person is coming from,” they said.
“I flew business class at Christmas time, there were 52 babies on the flight…. 25 of them were in business class. You cannot dictate who is allowed in what section. If they have a ticket they can sit there,” agreed someone else.
As one bluntly put it: “NTA. 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.”
Call it another case of mile-high mayhem — because the baby battles don’t stop at business class.
As previously reported by The Post, an American Airlines passenger claims their Dallas-to-Philly flight turned into an olfactory disaster after a fellow flyer decided the middle seat was the perfect changing table.
The disgusted traveler fumed on Reddit that the mom “somehow thought it was a good idea to change her baby’s rancid, s–t-filled diaper on the middle seat between her and her husband.”
The diaper debacle sparked an intense discussion online, with some sticking up for the frazzled parents — arguing airplane bathrooms are too cramped for diaper duty.
Others insisted there’s no excuse for turning a commercial flight into a changing station.
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