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Celebrity journalist Gayle King went viral for her calm response to United Airlines giving her a window seat without a window!

Gayle booked a business class seat with a window for her 9-hour flight back to NYC from Hawaii where she celebrated her 71st birthday with her pal Oprah.

In a TikTok video, Gayle calmly noted she didn’t have a window seat even though her boarding pass says “window seat.”

“I know the L series is window seats and I always like the window seat,” Gayle said in the clip. “So I sit down and I go, ‘Oh great, let’s look out the window.'” Then she pans the camera to a blank wall on her right.

“Oh, hmmm, there is no window,” she said. “Well maybe I can look at the neighbor’s window across the hall.” She panned the camera to her left to show another blank wall.

Then Gayle stood up and pointed her camera over the partition to show a passenger relaxing in his window seat that had an actual window.

“Hmmm,” Gayle said. “United and I have very different ideas about a window.”

A former flight attendant said the ticket agent probably thought Gayle King would prefer a private booth – even though she asked for a window seat.

X users attacked Gayle for being “out of touch” and complaining about a non-existent window when people are homeless and starving.

One X user wrote: “Hopefully she survived this without too much trauma.”

Another user wrote: “Thoughts and prayers for Gayle King as she endures a windowless window seat in business class.”

A third person commented: “Apparently, Gayle King doesn’t follow me on the old twitter to learn about the infamous windowless window seat on @united Polaris…”

Question: How would you respond if this happened to you?