A tiny traveler caused major turbulence.
Osaac Summer, an American Airlines flyer, responded to a viral video that showed him scolding a family who let their kid take his $300 seat without asking him.
“Stay in your lane and in your seat,” Summer told the family in a clip posted on TikTok July 6.
The 6-foot-2 flyer was captured on camera placing his backpack in the overhead bin as he demanded his seat back.
“I don’t care about your daughter, your child and none of that,” Summer said. “I paid for this one.”
Summer intentionally booked the aisle seat so he could fly comfortably and never wanted to cause problems, according to a reaction video he posted on TikTok on July 11.
“If you know me, then you know that that wasn’t me going off,” Summer said in the newest clip. “That wasn’t me crashing out at anything like that.”
He insisted that he was not “the bad guy” in the situation and accused the family of taking his seat without asking him.
Summer added that the family tried to move him to a middle seat or a window seat, which he refused.
“I get on the plane [and] I’m telling the lady, I’m like, ‘ma’am, I really don’t want to take the seat from you and your child, but next time it would be the best thing to ask before taking a seat,’” he said.
Summer claimed he wouldn’t have had a problem giving away his seat if they had talked to him first but the situation left him scrambling to find an aisle seat.
The flight attendant allegedly refused to let him take an aisle seat he picked and said that if he wanted to be in one, he’d have to take his original seat.
“The flight attendant told me, ‘Well yeah you is being a problem,’” Summer alleged. “You know, ‘You is being a bad guy.’ So I turned around and said, ‘Ma’am look, since you said all [of] that, just come get my seat because that was unnecessary and just like, rude. That was rude.’”
The traveler said the flight attendant shouldn’t have let the family take his seat in the first place.
“I’m not trying to argue [with] nobody,” Summer said. “I really just want to sit down. It’s 12 o’clock a.m. We just want to sit down and get on a plane and go. That’s it.”
He was finally able to sit in his original seat when another passenger let the child take their seat.
“Moral of the story: just give people their seats back,” Summer concluded in his six-minute response video. “And flight attendants, just do ya job because if that was somebody in first class, y’all wouldn’t have even let them sit down.”
Summer said only one flight attendant came up to check on him after the incident.
The Post reached out to American Airlines for comment.
In recent years, airline customers have pushed back on “entitled” parents who tried to swap seats with strangers on planes.
A Brazilian woman, who appeared in a viral video refusing to give her seat to a crying child in December 2024, sued GOL Airlines and the passenger who filmed her after the clip was posted online.
The passenger, Jeniffer Castro, was seeking compensation for distress and damages because the incident caused “consequences that affected both my personal and professional life.”
In 2023, a woman was praised because she refused to give up her first class seat to a kid.
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