We booked the ‘best seats’ on the plane — but we were so uncomfortable
nypost.commile-high mishap currently boasts nearly 20 million views on TikTok.The couple in question were Real Madrid star Sergio Carrallo and his wife Caroline Stanbury, who stars on the “Real Housewives of Dubai.”Carrallo explained in the caption that their assistant “booked 1A and 1B” on the undisclosed flight, leading them to believe they had “the best seats on the plane.”The pair quickly realized that wasn’t the case after they arrived and noticed there was no one behind them.
Instead, the soulmates’ seat backs were against the bulkhead, preventing them from reclining even an inch, as seen in the footage.“We got the best seats in the plane,” a bemused Carrallo snarks in the clip. “Nothing goes back.”And that was just the tip of the inflight iceberg.
The soccer star then pans his phone to the rest of the plane, revealing that they were actually “facing the cabin” as if seated in a flight attendant’s jump seat.Social media was understandably freaked out by the claustrophobic and awkward configuration.“The fact that everyone is staring I can’t,” exclaimed one mortified commenter, while another wrote, “Absolutely nothing could have prepared me for the camera flip.”“Staring the entire plane down is crazy,” said a third.Others said their seating arrangement looked as if they were conducting a Q&A session at 30,000 feet.“There’s my absolute worst nightmare and then there’s this,” quipped one TikTok wit.“Why do those seats even exist?!” inquired one incredulous viewer, to which Carrallo replied, “Tell me about it.”Interestingly, aft-facing airline seats aren’t as unusual as one might think.
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