Overview

• The traveler wrote that he, his sister and his niece each paid about €30 for extra-legroom exit-row seats on a roughly four-hour trip across Europe.
• He said a father with two children stood at the emergency-exit window beside them for most of the flight, leaning in and blocking the space they paid for.
• According to the post, flight attendants responded three times and issued a final warning, yet the family resumed loitering near the row.
• The post on the Dull Men’s Fun Club page drew hundreds of reactions and comments, with readers sharing similar complaints about paid legroom being treated as a standing area.
• There is no reported airline or regulatory action tied to this case, echoing a recurring pattern of viral etiquette disputes that yield attention but few policy changes.