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Couple come up with genius plan to stop people sitting next to them on a flight

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Published 11:41 26 Feb 2023 GMT

Couple come up with genius plan to stop people sitting next to them on a flight

It's divided social media users.

Emma Guinness

Emma Guinness

As we all know, sometimes travelling by plane can be a dream or a nightmare, depending on who takes the seat next to you.

But now one couple has taken to TikTok to reveal their cunning plan which kept the middle seat on their row free.

The video begins by showing TikToker Olivia covering her mouth in shock, before it then cuts to her boyfriend rocking what appears to be a baby swaddled in blankets.

The pair are sitting on either end of a row of plane seats, and while it looks normal enough, the voiceover reveals what's really going on.

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It says: "Does anyone else's boyfriend do the most absurd things to keep the middle seat open on an aeroplane? Like pretending to have a baby?"

Olivia captioned the now-viral video: "The things he'll do to keep the middle seat open on an airplane [sic]."

As you can imagine, the video went far from unnoticed on the social media platform, and at the time of writing, it's been viewed over three million times.

Viewers subsequently took to the comments section to weigh in on this unusual life hack.

Olivia's boyfriend wasn't taking any chances with the middle seat.
TikTok / @olivialynne93
Reacting to the One TikTok user couldn't help but joke: "imagine it doesn't work and someone still sits there and you have to keep the bit going."

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"[I'm] gonna start sitting in the middle on purpose to spite people trying that hard," declared a second.

A third shared their alternative hack, writing: "I used to hold the barf bag in my lap."

"Smart!!" wrote a fourth, while a fifth described it as 'genius', writing: "No bc that's actually genius."

However, not everyone was so impressed by the hack.

"As if that would stop me if that seat was on my boarding pass," wrote one unimpressed viewer.

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The hack received mixed reactions on TikTok.
TikTok / @olivialynne93

"That's the seat I look for," added a second critic. "I know parents don't want to be split up so they'll inevitably give up the window or aisle."

A third questioned how it would even work if someone had that seat on their boarding pass.

They wrote: "I'm still gonna sit in the middle seat that's on my boarding pass what [am I] gonna do seal someone else's seat [sic]."

"I'd sit there on purpose," declared a fourth while a fifth remarked: "Hmm with a full flight you can try anything. Won't work."

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What do you think of the hack? Is it 'genius' or doomed to fail?

Featured Image Credit: @olivialynne93 / TikTok

Topics: News, Travel, TikTok

Emma Guinness
Emma Guinness

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