Passengers Not Prepared for What They Get After Free Upgrade on Flight [Video]

A video of two passengers who found themselves in an “awkward” position after getting an upgrade on a flight has gone viral on TikTok.

The clip was posted by @hudhefner and has amassed 539,000 views since it was posted on April 17.

Text overlaid on the video, which shows two passengers laughing to themselves, explains: “Flight attendant asked if we wanted to be upgraded for free to the emergency exit seat 1A 1B.”

The text continues “Yes. Always,” before noting “no idea it faced the whole cabin.” The video shows the pair seated at the front of the aircraft, with the rest of the passengers facing them in the opposite direction.

While exit row seats on a plane offer extra leg room, they also come with important safety responsibilities.

Airlines communicate information about exit seating to passengers in various forms, starting from the point of ticket purchase through the boarding process “to ensure that passengers …