Man Wins Case Against BA Seating Policy

British Airways has changed its policy about refraining lone male passengers from sitting next to unaccompanied children on its planes. It comes after Mirko Fischer sued BA after being forced to move seats after he innocently sat next to a child on one of their planes.

The incident took place last year when his pregnant wife asked to switch seats with him so she could sit next to the window, which he did and sat in his wife’s middle seat, in doing so he was then sat next to a boy.

Air stewards thought Mirko was travelling alone and asked him to move as he was sitting next to a boy he didn’t know. Mirko said he had never been so humiliated and made to feel like child molester.

He took the case to court and won £2,161 in costs and £750 in damages. BA have since changed their decade old policy, lone flying children will now be seated in a special section of the plane.