Out-of-touch Gayle King Slammed For Complaining That Her Upper Class Seat Doesnt Have A Window On Her Eight-hour Flight Back To Work From Hawaii

Celebrity journalist Gayle King is being criticized on social media for posting a video complaining that her business class flight seat had no window.

On Sunday, the CBS Mornings co-host posted a video to her 1.1 million Instagram followers in which she complained that her than eight-hour-long United Airlines flight from Hawaii to New York was ‘gonna be a long ride.’

King took the video while on the flight and said: ‘I always like the window seat, and I know the L series is window seats, so I sit down, I go, ‘oh great, okay, let’s look out the window. Oh, there is no window.”

‘Well maybe I can look out the neighbor’s window across the hall,’ she continued. ‘Oh, a wall,’ she then said while patting the wall to her left.

The television personality then lifted her phone to see if the passenger in front of her had a window, which he did, but King also complained that it was closed.

‘United and I have very different ideas about a window,’ King said. ‘What’s a girl to do?’

She said that she complained to a flight attendant, who she described as ‘very nice.’

King added that the flight attendant told her, ‘he had never seen anything like this,’ in the caption of her post.

‘He suggested I complain. This is me complaining…’ King also wrote in the caption.

According to the United Airlines website, business class tickets for a round trip between Maui’s Kahului Airport and Newark International Airport, which was the route King was taking, range from than $2,500 to a little under $5,000.

King’s ticket, which was in frame for most of the video, clearly shows that it was for a business class seat.

Business class is also the most premium option offered by United Airlines for that route.

The airline’s economy tickets for the same round trip start at $420, meaning King likely paid around five to ten times what the average person would have spent.

In the comments of the post, many users slammed King and joked about her being out of touch.

‘How will you manage?’ one person wrote sarcastically. ‘Just fine,’ another responded.

‘Gayle. There are times we just ‘Let Go’ and thank God for our blessings,’ wrote another user.

‘Boohoo Gayle. Flying business class is so challenging,’ a third person wrote along with a crying laughing emoji.

‘This is what we are actually complaining about? What are you a teenage girl?’ said a fourth.

‘Imagine living a life where this is your biggest problem,’ a fifth wrote.

‘Gayle you’ve been to space what do you need to see mama,’ a sixth said in reference to King’s participation in the all-woman Blue Origin spaceflight, which also featured Jeff Bezos’s wife, Lauren Sanchez, and pop-star Katy Perry.

Although most people were critical in the comments, a few people were also supportive of King.

Some simply wished her safe travels or posted heart emojis, and a few others recommended she use a booking website to ensure her seat has a window in the future.