Airline passenger puts feet on stranger's armrest for entire flight

Unhappy: Passenger Wu was forced to share an armrest with another woman's feet for four hours
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Laura Proto11 December 2015

A Chinese woman endured an uncomfortable flight after the passenger behind her rested her bare feet on her armrest for the entire flight.

The passenger, named only as Wu, was sitting in an aisle seat on an AirAsia flight from Bangkok to Xi’an in China when a fellow passenger defied the unspoken rules of flying etiquette.

With the passenger's bare feet just centimetres from her skin, the woman said she complained to cabin crew while the woman behind her was in the bathroom.

But it is claimed the Thai flight attendant said there was simply nothing that could be done, blaming the fact on all the other passengers being Chinese.

Not content with what she endured during the four-hour flight, Wu posted photographs of the offending passenger – and her feet- on Chinese social media website Weibo.

A newspaper in Beijing contacted Wu and asked why she did not speak to the passenger herself, to which she responded she was scared it would cause an argument.

She said: “I only wanted to post the pictures for my friends to see – I wasn’t planning to start a debate.

“I didn’t report the case to the airlines either, because I just thought it was water under the bridge.”

Wu added she hoped her photographs would remind others to be more disciplined and show more consideration for other passengers.

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