Do you have to sit next to your spouse on an airplane?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, I'd prefer to. Though it's lees about needing to sit next to my spouse as it is not wanting to sit next to the rest of you gross people. Most of you are disgusting.

LOL. This is true.

I wondered about it this morning because we were upgraded at the gate and there weren't two seats in first class together. The gate agent kept apologizing and asked if we'd like our original coach seats back, and we were just like, "No, it's ok, we totally don't need to sit together."

-OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, I'd prefer to. Though it's lees about needing to sit next to my spouse as it is not wanting to sit next to the rest of you gross people. Most of you are disgusting.

+1. LOL

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We usually book aisle seats across from each other. So some space but nearby.

This is what we do! We both like aisle seats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We trvel on separate planes, in case anything happens.

Smart.

[Anonymous]

I normally fly business (often with free upgrades, points etc), while my wife flies coach with the kids. I will come back occasionally to chat, but I prefer it up towards the front, it is what I am used to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I normally fly business (often with free upgrades, points etc), while my wife flies coach with the kids. I will come back occasionally to chat, but I prefer it up towards the front, it is what I am used to.

I wanted to ask this too, but thought I might get flamed. My spouse doesn't care about sitting in coach, so is it rude to leave them there to save miles, upgrades, whatever?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I'd prefer to. Though it's lees about needing to sit next to my spouse as it is not wanting to sit next to the rest of you gross people. Most of you are disgusting.

LOL. This is true.

I wondered about it this morning because we were upgraded at the gate and there weren't two seats in first class together. The gate agent kept apologizing and asked if we'd like our original coach seats back, and we were just like, "No, it's ok, we totally don't need to sit together."

-OP

First class without my spouse beats coach class with him, hands down every time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Well, I'd prefer to. Though it's lees about needing to sit next to my spouse as it is not wanting to sit next to the rest of you gross people. Most of you are disgusting.

LOL. This is true.

I wondered about it this morning because we were upgraded at the gate and there weren't two seats in first class together. The gate agent kept apologizing and asked if we'd like our original coach seats back, and we were just like, "No, it's ok, we totally don't need to sit together."

-OP

First class without my spouse beats coach class with him, hands down every time.

Agree. DW here and I don't get upgrades too often anymore but when I do I'll leave anyone behind in coach. I prefer to sit next to DH on flights, but would never ask anyone to switch. I fly all the time for work so am used to sitting alone. Plus DH usually has the noise cancelling headphones on for most of the flight so it's not like we are chatting the whole time (I assume the headphones aren't on my account!).

[Anonymous]

We sit next to each other when we travel without children (very infrequently), but we sit 2 in front of 2 when traveling with our children(frequently)- spacing the kids out with one parent each seems to work well for us.
If we were seated apart when it was just the two of us we'd be o.k. and wouldn't try to rearrange other peoples seats.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I normally fly business (often with free upgrades, points etc), while my wife flies coach with the kids. I will come back occasionally to chat, but I prefer it up towards the front, it is what I am used to.

Why is your wife automatically in charge of the kids, while you come back occasionally?

[Anonymous]

Prefer to sit by my spouse, but I also hate that on most planes, it means one of us gets stuck in the middle. I love the planes where there are two seats together rather than 3, that's my first pick. After that, I usually book one of us window and one of us aisle in the same row. If the middle seat is empty, score! And if the middle seat is occupied, then we offer to switch - never had anyone not be happy about that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I normally fly business (often with free upgrades, points etc), while my wife flies coach with the kids. I will come back occasionally to chat, but I prefer it up towards the front, it is what I am used to.

I wanted to ask this too, but thought I might get flamed. My spouse doesn't care about sitting in coach, so is it rude to leave them there to save miles, upgrades, whatever?

If it's just you and your spouse traveling and your spouse doesn't mind, I don't see an issue with it. But if you're like pp who is traveling with the kids as well and seems perfectly content to leave his wife dealing with the kids on her own while he relaxes up front, that's a pretty shitty thing to do unless she's getting some other benefit to make up for it (like an extra spa visit or two while pp takes care of the kids).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We trvel on separate planes, in case anything happens.

Smart.

No,stupid. It increases your risk of one parent dying. The risk of both parents dying on one plane is so low. If you do this. You need to be in separate cars every single time you drive because the risk of dying in a car is a million times higher

[Anonymous]

I.don't care about my spouse in particular, but sadly, I am an anxious flier, not because of the plane but because of extreme claustrophobia. If his easier for me to turtle and deal pressed between my spouse and a window.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I normally fly business (often with free upgrades, points etc), while my wife flies coach with the kids. I will come back occasionally to chat, but I prefer it up towards the front, it is what I am used to.

Why is your wife automatically in charge of the kids, while you come back occasionally?

Because the children are in coach.