Bizarre moment lawyer is kicked off Avianca flight from Colombia to LA after seat he had purchased three months prior was sold to a mother flying with two children

A lawyer held up a flight for almost an hour after he discovered that the airlines company Avianca had overbooked his seat.

The passenger, who identified himself as Juan Manuel in a recent video chat with the TikToker who filmed the incident, had purchased a roundtrip fare from Bogotá, Colombia, to Los Angeles before he was shocked to find out that there was a child sitting in his seat.

Manuel recalled arriving two and a half hours ahead of his trip at El Dorado International Airport for the first leg of his journey, before making a connection in El Salvador.

Although he was in listed with group three to enter the aircraft, he decided to wait out the boarding process while the other passengers filed in front on him. 

Once he saw that there were about 10 passengers remaining, Manuel made his way to the counter and showed his boarding pass and was told, in an alleged rude manner, to step to the side. After waiting for 15 minutes, he was allowed to proceed into the airplane.

However, his trip took a turn when he reached his row and was surprised to find a child sitting on the window seat, which has been assigned to him on the ticket.

After comparing boarding passes with the woman, an Avianca agent approached Manuel and told him that he had to leave the airplane.

'She tells me, "Oh, Juan Manuel, it turns out that your ticket was resold; get off, get off the plane, do me the favor,"' he recalled.

He followed the agent's instructions until he reached the exit door near the pilot's cabin and lost his cool, as seen in the now-viral video.

'Let a cop come. I hope the prosecutors come. Because I will report you for not being serious. It's just that you can't be playing with people's agendas,' he can he heard telling the Avianca worker.

'What if I had arrived late? I don't give a damn about your options,' he went on to say.

He noticed a passenger was filming the incident and turned around and said, 'And if you want to, record it,' before facing the agent and telling her, 'Your options don't interest me at all. I have to go on this flight. I don't have to work with you.'

During the tense argument, a passenger approached Juan Manuel to tell him that he was traveling to El Salvador for an urgent medical appointment. 

A female passenger later told him that there were children in the plane and a woman told the Avianca agent that she had no issues flying with her daughter on her lap if it meant that he could have the seat.

After assessing the situation, Manuel told the passengers that he was disembarking because of them and not the airline. 

Avianca rebooked Juan Manuel on a different flight to Miami, where he made a connection to Chicago. Once in the Windy City, he waited nearly five hours because of a delay and landed in Los Angeles around 10 pm.

The airline provided him a food voucher for 26,000 Colombian pesos, a little over $6, and an $80 flight voucher.

The seat confusion caused Juan Manuel to miss a meeting with Los Angeles attorneys, whom we was going to meet with to discuss the legal situation involving three Colombian nationals who are in custody. 

DailyMail.com reached out to Avianca for comment.