Mom’s viral airplane seating hack sparks debate: ‘Can’t stand when people do this’

A family travel blogger has revealed her secret to getting an entire row on a flight, but solo flyers appear to be opposed.

Jess Darrington, the Idaho-based creator of Where is Briggs?, which specializes in travel tips for parents with kids under 4, shared a now-viral seating hack on TikTok that has attracted more than 8.1 million views.

Before sharing the airline seating tip, Darrington prefaced the video by saying this “sometimes” works.

Darrington said you can select an aisle seat and a window seat in a single row, leaving the middle seat open, hoping that no one books the middle seat.

In the viral video, which is posted under Darrington’s handle, @where.is.briggs, her family ended up booking four seats split between two rows, and no one booked the middle seat, which meant they had the entire two rows of their 11-hour flight from Amsterdam to Salt Lake City all to themselves.

Darrington said she has tried this hack a few times over the years and experienced different results.