Passenger sends social media SOS from 6-hour flight after baby won’t stop hitting her seat: ‘Ready to go full tilt Karen’

She was on a flight from heaven to hell.

A passenger on a Southwest flight from Hawaii to the mainland found herself trapped in a nightmare after a child kept kicking the back of her seat and the parent allegedly refused to take the matter seriously.

And while the internet is full of after-the-fact horror stories these days, this fed-up flyer found himself in need of some immediate moral support.

So she logged on to the in-flight wi-fi service and posted an urgent plea to the Southwest Airlines board on Reddit, hoping to find a sympathetic ear and some helpful advice, People first reported.

“I’m currently on a flight from Hawaii to Las Vegas and a kid behind me keeps kicking my seat,” Redditor Silverlace22 warned the room.

“His forgotten father is sitting next to him and does nothing. I don’t want to cause a scene, but 4 hours into this and I’m ready to go all Karen. I have said ‘oh’ several times, but to no avail.

“Why do they only put 1/2 inch of foam between someone’s lower back and leg,” she wondered aloud.

Users were quick to come to the noted passenger’s moral support, telling her to immediately call the crew for help.

“Push the flight attendant button and use your best grown-up words to tell them what you said here,” urged a virtual Good Samaritan.

“I’ve turned around a lot of times and just said to the kid ‘hey bud, you’re stepping on my seat and it hurts. Can you keep your feet out of there? Thanks!’ It usually goes to the bottom,” said another.

Other users suggested funny ways to reinforce the child’s better behavior.

“‘See this blue button above my seat? It’s the eject button for YOUR seat. If you keep kicking me, I’m going to have to push it and you’ll be ejected from the plane,'” suggested one armchair warrior as a line that could function.

Some, however, were quick to accuse the passenger of being “passive aggressive,” which the woman clarified was not the case.

“I should have added that I’ve already spoken to dad who says ok and then moves on. So, involving a flight attendant is the only solution. I was just hoping someone had a creative alternative. Wild parenting is no joke,” she said.

In desperate situations inside the cabin, travel professional and advisor Nicole Campoy Jackson of Fora Travel previously told People, it’s good to be cautious, and you never know who’s going to lose their cool when confronted.

“This is difficult because parents are already on high alert and often feel defensive when flying with their children,” she told the media. “To turn around, already mad, and start throwing blame words is absolutely not going to help anyone have a better flight.”

Instead, she advocated a gentle approach, speaking quietly and directly to the parent and involving a flight attendant only if the problem persists.

Recently, a mother went viral after confronting a pair of passengers with their misbehaved child who wouldn’t stop blowing drool-filled raspberries from the seat in front of them.

After the third time, my husband very sternly told the parents, “If you don’t get your child under control, I’ll do it for you,” Shayla Monnier recounted on her flight from Atlanta to Denver earlier this year.

After the offending mother replied that people without children wouldn’t understand, Monnier’s husband had the final comeback:

“We have five children and six grandchildren and I promise you none of them would do something like this,” he said.

Unruly behavior at airports and on airplanes has become commonplace, usually among adults behaving like children.

In Taiwan, a fully grown traveler was recently filmed throwing a chair and assaulting an employee at Kinmen Airport over an unknown matter.

Closer to home, a United Airlines passenger wearing a “Scarface” T-shirt bit a flight attendant’s uniform, forcing the Newark-bound plane to make an emergency landing.

Meanwhile, in Washington, D, C, a bus class skid was recently stopped after it allegedly followed a mother and daughter into the bathroom before illegally boarding the family’s flight, crashing next to them.

In 2022, the Federal Aviation Administration introduced a permanent policy of zero tolerance for misconduct.

Penalties can include counseling, fines, warnings and prosecution, not to mention civil penalties of up to $37,000 per violation, according to the agency.