Originally Posted by Owenc

Hi, I travel home to Northern Ireland once a month. I am 19 but I look quite. a bit younger, probably 16.

Basically alot of people (particularly men) take advantage of my age and try and get things that they shouldn't be getting like taking my window seat when I pay for it in advance. Alot of people also jump the queue to get ahead of me and then kick up a fuss when I challenge them. Most of the time I just shut up and say nothing even though they are in the wrong.

Yesterday a man tried to tell me that my window seat was the wrong seat and that it was his. He kicked up a whole fuss only for his face to go red when I show him my boarding pass.

I know all of this occurs because of my age and i'm sick of it but there's not much I can do for that. I'll just have to wait.

What do you think I should do about seat poachers though? I've thought about going to the flight attendant but I can't see it working in my favour.