A first-class passenger allegedly refused to leave another traveller’s assigned seat after claiming her own was broken, sparking a bizarre American Airlines standoff that has attracted millions of views online.Content creator Justin Escalona said he was travelling from New York to Los Angeles on American Airlines flight 171 when he was woken from a nap by a woman asking to swap seats.At first, the 27-year-old assumed she simply wanted a better view from the window.Instead, he claimed she wanted his seat because hers would not recline.“I thought it was because she wanted a better view or something,” Escalona said in a video posted to Instagram.“But no, it’s because her seat doesn’t recline.”Escalona later explained he had booked an economy seat before receiving a complimentary upgrade to first class through his American Airlines AAdvantage Executive Platinum status, the airline’s highest publicly available elite tier.He claimed the woman argued that because she had paid for her first-class ticket and he had been upgraded for free, he should be required to move.“I understand the logic, but that doesn’t mean I agree with it,” he wrote.Escalona said he may have agreed to swap seats had the woman asked politely or had a more compelling reason.“She didn’t even say please or thank you! Just bolted over to my chair & wouldn’t get up,” he wrote.“Even if she was polite about it, maybe I would’ve said whatever, just take it I’m feeling nice. Sadly not the case.”Video of the confrontation appears to show the woman sitting in seat 6A with her hand on her forehead while Escalona repeatedly tells her it is his assigned seat.“She’s like, it’s somehow my fault? And she won’t get out of my seat,” he says in the clip.“You gotta get out of my seat, this is crazy.”At one point, the woman allegedly insisted his seat had been reassigned.“My boarding pass says 6A, yours says 3F,” Escalona replied.He also told her, “You are holding up the entire flight.”The woman eventually began collecting her belongings and appeared to mutter, “You are such a …” before the video ended.After Escalona reclaimed his seat, another passenger joked, “Bro, you almost got robbed.”The NY Post said it had contacted American Airlines for comment.The video has since attracted almost five million views, with many social media users debating whether passengers should ever be expected to give up an assigned seat because another traveller’s seat was faulty.