How do people feel about even-trading plane seats?

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Anonymous wrote:Last week I flew cross country and had a middle seat. A couple came and they had the aisle and window seats on either side of me. They said they book that way in hopes the middle seat is not taken. They offered to trade me the middle for the aisle and I sure as hell took them up on the offer! But otherwise, I wouldn’t trade aisle for window, not with my bladder.

I refuse to switch with the absolute A-holes who do this. They make so much harder for people who actually want to sit together to find seats together.

F—k them. I keep my middle seat every time.

Please explain? Because the math is not mathing.

Whenever i try to book a flight lately with my family, i encounter planes for which literally the only empty seats are middle seats. Therefore it is impossible for me to find even two seats together despite a willingness to pay and what (to me) is a perfectly reasonable timeline for booking flights.

Now, i understand first-come, first served and i am not complaining. It the flight happens to have been filled by a bunch of singletons or people who otherwise don’t want to sit next to someone, fine, I’ll deal.

But it makes my blood boil when people do it deliberately in effort to game the system. I repeat, F—k them. I carefully selected my middle seat out of the dozens of middle seats and I’m keeping it.

First, "reasonable to you" means nothing, if the majority of the seats are already booked. But that's beside the point.

In the scenario you are describing, it doesn't matter *which* two seats the earlier bookers took - there still won't be any seats together for your family. Let's say that no couple traveling together did what you are complaining about, and all took either the middle and window or middle and aisle seats. It's no easier for you to find seats together, because there's still only one seats available in the row.

How is this not obvious?

Because singletons in windows/aisles could still sit next to couples in window/middle or aisle/middle you freaking dumb@$$.

How is THAT not obvious?

NP. I'm not following. Are you saying that you think couples should only ever book window+middle or aisle+aisle, never aisle+middle or aisle+window?

The person to whom you are responding is crazy unhinged.
This doesn't work like concert seating, where there are algorithms to make sure sets of two stay open.
anyone can pick any seat they want. There is no obligation to leave sets of two seats open.

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Anonymous wrote:Last week I flew cross country and had a middle seat. A couple came and they had the aisle and window seats on either side of me. They said they book that way in hopes the middle seat is not taken. They offered to trade me the middle for the aisle and I sure as hell took them up on the offer! But otherwise, I wouldn’t trade aisle for window, not with my bladder.

I refuse to switch with the absolute A-holes who do this. They make so much harder for people who actually want to sit together to find seats together.

F—k them. I keep my middle seat every time.

Please explain? Because the math is not mathing.

Whenever i try to book a flight lately with my family, i encounter planes for which literally the only empty seats are middle seats. Therefore it is impossible for me to find even two seats together despite a willingness to pay and what (to me) is a perfectly reasonable timeline for booking flights.

Now, i understand first-come, first served and i am not complaining. It the flight happens to have been filled by a bunch of singletons or people who otherwise don’t want to sit next to someone, fine, I’ll deal.

But it makes my blood boil when people do it deliberately in effort to game the system. I repeat, F—k them. I carefully selected my middle seat out of the dozens of middle seats and I’m keeping it.

First, "reasonable to you" means nothing, if the majority of the seats are already booked. But that's beside the point.

In the scenario you are describing, it doesn't matter *which* two seats the earlier bookers took - there still won't be any seats together for your family. Let's say that no couple traveling together did what you are complaining about, and all took either the middle and window or middle and aisle seats. It's no easier for you to find seats together, because there's still only one seats available in the row.

How is this not obvious?

Because singletons in windows/aisles could still sit next to couples in window/middle or aisle/middle you freaking dumb@$$.

How is THAT not obvious?

NP. I'm not following. Are you saying that you think couples should only ever book window+middle or aisle+aisle, never aisle+middle or aisle+window?

The person to whom you are responding is crazy unhinged.
This doesn't work like concert seating, where there are algorithms to make sure sets of two stay open.
anyone can pick any seat they want. There is no obligation to leave sets of two seats open.

And no one is saying they’re obligated to leave two seats open. But they’re AHs not to unless they ACTUALLY don’t want to sit together.

Some of you confuse rules for manners.

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Anonymous wrote:I would just like to remind people that there may be reasons that parents really want to sit next to their kids and tweens. My older daughter would be totally fine sitting alone since she was like 4. My younger kid has severe anxiety and has a hard time sitting with people she doesn't know. Can she do it? Yes. But she will sit there the entire time in a nervous state and have a breakdown when we arrive at our location (and yes, she sees a therapist and is on medication).

We once got our seats switched (that we booked well in advance and paid for) and I had to beg people to switch. She was 11, so I know that most people would think she should sit by herself, but it would make it even worse for her if I had to explain to people why we needed to sit together.

Lesson of the story-- you don't know what is going on with a family, so maybe just be a decent person and switch seats if asked nicely?

You all can pile on this person, but I would rather just let a parent figure out what's best for their kid. If someone nicely asked me to switch, I would say yes. I don't need an explanation.

And it’s nice of you! But the pile on she’s getting is because her main character syndrome has blinded her to the fact that every other person on the plane has their own situation. Yours is flexible it seems. Others such as mine is not. “Being a decent person” doesn’t mean agreeing to trade seats and her conviction that she and her daughter are the most deserving people on the plane is shortsighted.

It’s also fine to say no. But this thread is full of people who feel personally victimized/attacked/put-upon by someone merely ASKING.

It’s not fine to say no. The rejected passenger will get huffy and glare at you the rest of the flight. They won’t take a no well.

This is either you projecting OR it’s an observation of reasonable person’s reaction to you being a dick for no apparent reason.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Last week I flew cross country and had a middle seat. A couple came and they had the aisle and window seats on either side of me. They said they book that way in hopes the middle seat is not taken. They offered to trade me the middle for the aisle and I sure as hell took them up on the offer! But otherwise, I wouldn’t trade aisle for window, not with my bladder.

I refuse to switch with the absolute A-holes who do this. They make so much harder for people who actually want to sit together to find seats together.

F—k them. I keep my middle seat every time.

Please explain? Because the math is not mathing.

Whenever i try to book a flight lately with my family, i encounter planes for which literally the only empty seats are middle seats. Therefore it is impossible for me to find even two seats together despite a willingness to pay and what (to me) is a perfectly reasonable timeline for booking flights.

Now, i understand first-come, first served and i am not complaining. It the flight happens to have been filled by a bunch of singletons or people who otherwise don’t want to sit next to someone, fine, I’ll deal.

But it makes my blood boil when people do it deliberately in effort to game the system. I repeat, F—k them. I carefully selected my middle seat out of the dozens of middle seats and I’m keeping it.

First, "reasonable to you" means nothing, if the majority of the seats are already booked. But that's beside the point.

In the scenario you are describing, it doesn't matter *which* two seats the earlier bookers took - there still won't be any seats together for your family. Let's say that no couple traveling together did what you are complaining about, and all took either the middle and window or middle and aisle seats. It's no easier for you to find seats together, because there's still only one seats available in the row.

How is this not obvious?

Because singletons in windows/aisles could still sit next to couples in window/middle or aisle/middle you freaking dumb@$$.

How is THAT not obvious?

NP. I'm not following. Are you saying that you think couples should only ever book window+middle or aisle+aisle, never aisle+middle or aisle+window?

The person to whom you are responding is crazy unhinged.
This doesn't work like concert seating, where there are algorithms to make sure sets of two stay open.
anyone can pick any seat they want. There is no obligation to leave sets of two seats open.

I know for my family the most important thing is getting to the destination we want on a certain schedule. Making sure we're all sitting together is lower on the priority list. I think the airline knows this so there isn't much of an incentive to police the seat selection. If my family of 5 had to take 5 middle seats we would as long as we're getting the flight day, time and price we want, and it's our fault for booking so late. My youngest is 10 and I wouldn't beg anyone to trade seats with us. We'll spend time together at our destination.

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Anonymous wrote:I would just like to remind people that there may be reasons that parents really want to sit next to their kids and tweens. My older daughter would be totally fine sitting alone since she was like 4. My younger kid has severe anxiety and has a hard time sitting with people she doesn't know. Can she do it? Yes. But she will sit there the entire time in a nervous state and have a breakdown when we arrive at our location (and yes, she sees a therapist and is on medication).

We once got our seats switched (that we booked well in advance and paid for) and I had to beg people to switch. She was 11, so I know that most people would think she should sit by herself, but it would make it even worse for her if I had to explain to people why we needed to sit together.

Lesson of the story-- you don't know what is going on with a family, so maybe just be a decent person and switch seats if asked nicely?

You all can pile on this person, but I would rather just let a parent figure out what's best for their kid. If someone nicely asked me to switch, I would say yes. I don't need an explanation.

And it’s nice of you! But the pile on she’s getting is because her main character syndrome has blinded her to the fact that every other person on the plane has their own situation. Yours is flexible it seems. Others such as mine is not. “Being a decent person” doesn’t mean agreeing to trade seats and her conviction that she and her daughter are the most deserving people on the plane is shortsighted.

It’s also fine to say no. But this thread is full of people who feel personally victimized/attacked/put-upon by someone merely ASKING.

It’s not fine to say no. The rejected passenger will get huffy and glare at you the rest of the flight. They won’t take a no well.

This is either you projecting OR it’s an observation of reasonable person’s reaction to you being a dick for no apparent reason.

What is “apparent reason”. Are you a dick if you have a UTI and don’t want to tell the 12-year-old?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Last week I flew cross country and had a middle seat. A couple came and they had the aisle and window seats on either side of me. They said they book that way in hopes the middle seat is not taken. They offered to trade me the middle for the aisle and I sure as hell took them up on the offer! But otherwise, I wouldn’t trade aisle for window, not with my bladder.

I refuse to switch with the absolute A-holes who do this. They make so much harder for people who actually want to sit together to find seats together.

F—k them. I keep my middle seat every time.

Please explain? Because the math is not mathing.

Whenever i try to book a flight lately with my family, i encounter planes for which literally the only empty seats are middle seats. Therefore it is impossible for me to find even two seats together despite a willingness to pay and what (to me) is a perfectly reasonable timeline for booking flights.

Now, i understand first-come, first served and i am not complaining. It the flight happens to have been filled by a bunch of singletons or people who otherwise don’t want to sit next to someone, fine, I’ll deal.

But it makes my blood boil when people do it deliberately in effort to game the system. I repeat, F—k them. I carefully selected my middle seat out of the dozens of middle seats and I’m keeping it.

First, "reasonable to you" means nothing, if the majority of the seats are already booked. But that's beside the point.

In the scenario you are describing, it doesn't matter *which* two seats the earlier bookers took - there still won't be any seats together for your family. Let's say that no couple traveling together did what you are complaining about, and all took either the middle and window or middle and aisle seats. It's no easier for you to find seats together, because there's still only one seats available in the row.

How is this not obvious?

Because singletons in windows/aisles could still sit next to couples in window/middle or aisle/middle you freaking dumb@$$.

How is THAT not obvious?

NP. I'm not following. Are you saying that you think couples should only ever book window+middle or aisle+aisle, never aisle+middle or aisle+window?

No. But they could theoretically book aisle/middle in a row where the window seat is taken, rather than book window/aisle in an unoccupied row right behind.

Or they book window/middle in an unoccupied row, leaving the aisle seat free for a singleton.

And if they choose to book aisle/window that’s where they should stay. As we’ve learned from this thread, asking to switch seats is horribly offensive.

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Anonymous wrote:I would just like to remind people that there may be reasons that parents really want to sit next to their kids and tweens. My older daughter would be totally fine sitting alone since she was like 4. My younger kid has severe anxiety and has a hard time sitting with people she doesn't know. Can she do it? Yes. But she will sit there the entire time in a nervous state and have a breakdown when we arrive at our location (and yes, she sees a therapist and is on medication).

We once got our seats switched (that we booked well in advance and paid for) and I had to beg people to switch. She was 11, so I know that most people would think she should sit by herself, but it would make it even worse for her if I had to explain to people why we needed to sit together.

Lesson of the story-- you don't know what is going on with a family, so maybe just be a decent person and switch seats if asked nicely?

You all can pile on this person, but I would rather just let a parent figure out what's best for their kid. If someone nicely asked me to switch, I would say yes. I don't need an explanation.

And it’s nice of you! But the pile on she’s getting is because her main character syndrome has blinded her to the fact that every other person on the plane has their own situation. Yours is flexible it seems. Others such as mine is not. “Being a decent person” doesn’t mean agreeing to trade seats and her conviction that she and her daughter are the most deserving people on the plane is shortsighted.

It’s also fine to say no. But this thread is full of people who feel personally victimized/attacked/put-upon by someone merely ASKING.

It’s not fine to say no. The rejected passenger will get huffy and glare at you the rest of the flight. They won’t take a no well.

This is either you projecting OR it’s an observation of reasonable person’s reaction to you being a dick for no apparent reason.

What is “apparent reason”. Are you a dick if you have a UTI and don’t want to tell the 12-year-old?

What does a UTI have to do with an even trade of seats (the subject of this thread)?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Last week I flew cross country and had a middle seat. A couple came and they had the aisle and window seats on either side of me. They said they book that way in hopes the middle seat is not taken. They offered to trade me the middle for the aisle and I sure as hell took them up on the offer! But otherwise, I wouldn’t trade aisle for window, not with my bladder.

I refuse to switch with the absolute A-holes who do this. They make so much harder for people who actually want to sit together to find seats together.

F—k them. I keep my middle seat every time.

Please explain? Because the math is not mathing.

Whenever i try to book a flight lately with my family, i encounter planes for which literally the only empty seats are middle seats. Therefore it is impossible for me to find even two seats together despite a willingness to pay and what (to me) is a perfectly reasonable timeline for booking flights.

Now, i understand first-come, first served and i am not complaining. It the flight happens to have been filled by a bunch of singletons or people who otherwise don’t want to sit next to someone, fine, I’ll deal.

But it makes my blood boil when people do it deliberately in effort to game the system. I repeat, F—k them. I carefully selected my middle seat out of the dozens of middle seats and I’m keeping it.

First, "reasonable to you" means nothing, if the majority of the seats are already booked. But that's beside the point.

In the scenario you are describing, it doesn't matter *which* two seats the earlier bookers took - there still won't be any seats together for your family. Let's say that no couple traveling together did what you are complaining about, and all took either the middle and window or middle and aisle seats. It's no easier for you to find seats together, because there's still only one seats available in the row.

How is this not obvious?

Because singletons in windows/aisles could still sit next to couples in window/middle or aisle/middle you freaking dumb@$$.

How is THAT not obvious?

You should go back and reread. Maybe you'll pick it up this time. Although I doubt it.

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Anonymous wrote:Last week I flew cross country and had a middle seat. A couple came and they had the aisle and window seats on either side of me. They said they book that way in hopes the middle seat is not taken. They offered to trade me the middle for the aisle and I sure as hell took them up on the offer! But otherwise, I wouldn’t trade aisle for window, not with my bladder.

I refuse to switch with the absolute A-holes who do this. They make so much harder for people who actually want to sit together to find seats together.

F—k them. I keep my middle seat every time.

Please explain? Because the math is not mathing.

Whenever i try to book a flight lately with my family, i encounter planes for which literally the only empty seats are middle seats. Therefore it is impossible for me to find even two seats together despite a willingness to pay and what (to me) is a perfectly reasonable timeline for booking flights.

Now, i understand first-come, first served and i am not complaining. It the flight happens to have been filled by a bunch of singletons or people who otherwise don’t want to sit next to someone, fine, I’ll deal.

But it makes my blood boil when people do it deliberately in effort to game the system. I repeat, F—k them. I carefully selected my middle seat out of the dozens of middle seats and I’m keeping it.

First, "reasonable to you" means nothing, if the majority of the seats are already booked. But that's beside the point.

In the scenario you are describing, it doesn't matter *which* two seats the earlier bookers took - there still won't be any seats together for your family. Let's say that no couple traveling together did what you are complaining about, and all took either the middle and window or middle and aisle seats. It's no easier for you to find seats together, because there's still only one seats available in the row.

How is this not obvious?

Because singletons in windows/aisles could still sit next to couples in window/middle or aisle/middle you freaking dumb@$$.

How is THAT not obvious?

NP. I'm not following. Are you saying that you think couples should only ever book window+middle or aisle+aisle, never aisle+middle or aisle+window?

The person to whom you are responding is crazy unhinged.
This doesn't work like concert seating, where there are algorithms to make sure sets of two stay open.
anyone can pick any seat they want. There is no obligation to leave sets of two seats open.

I know for my family the most important thing is getting to the destination we want on a certain schedule. Making sure we're all sitting together is lower on the priority list. I think the airline knows this so there isn't much of an incentive to police the seat selection. If my family of 5 had to take 5 middle seats we would as long as we're getting the flight day, time and price we want, and it's our fault for booking so late. My youngest is 10 and I wouldn't beg anyone to trade seats with us. We'll spend time together at our destination.

God forbid anything ever happens on the plane requiring medical assistance, emergency evacuation, etc. I assume you would be unbothered not being in close proximity to your elementary schooler then. Good for you!

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Anonymous wrote:Last week I flew cross country and had a middle seat. A couple came and they had the aisle and window seats on either side of me. They said they book that way in hopes the middle seat is not taken. They offered to trade me the middle for the aisle and I sure as hell took them up on the offer! But otherwise, I wouldn’t trade aisle for window, not with my bladder.

I refuse to switch with the absolute A-holes who do this. They make so much harder for people who actually want to sit together to find seats together.

F—k them. I keep my middle seat every time.

Please explain? Because the math is not mathing.

Whenever i try to book a flight lately with my family, i encounter planes for which literally the only empty seats are middle seats. Therefore it is impossible for me to find even two seats together despite a willingness to pay and what (to me) is a perfectly reasonable timeline for booking flights.

Now, i understand first-come, first served and i am not complaining. It the flight happens to have been filled by a bunch of singletons or people who otherwise don’t want to sit next to someone, fine, I’ll deal.

But it makes my blood boil when people do it deliberately in effort to game the system. I repeat, F—k them. I carefully selected my middle seat out of the dozens of middle seats and I’m keeping it.

First, "reasonable to you" means nothing, if the majority of the seats are already booked. But that's beside the point.

In the scenario you are describing, it doesn't matter *which* two seats the earlier bookers took - there still won't be any seats together for your family. Let's say that no couple traveling together did what you are complaining about, and all took either the middle and window or middle and aisle seats. It's no easier for you to find seats together, because there's still only one seats available in the row.

How is this not obvious?

Because singletons in windows/aisles could still sit next to couples in window/middle or aisle/middle you freaking dumb@$$.

How is THAT not obvious?

NP. I'm not following. Are you saying that you think couples should only ever book window+middle or aisle+aisle, never aisle+middle or aisle+window?

The person to whom you are responding is crazy unhinged.
This doesn't work like concert seating, where there are algorithms to make sure sets of two stay open.
anyone can pick any seat they want. There is no obligation to leave sets of two seats open.

I know for my family the most important thing is getting to the destination we want on a certain schedule. Making sure we're all sitting together is lower on the priority list. I think the airline knows this so there isn't much of an incentive to police the seat selection. If my family of 5 had to take 5 middle seats we would as long as we're getting the flight day, time and price we want, and it's our fault for booking so late. My youngest is 10 and I wouldn't beg anyone to trade seats with us. We'll spend time together at our destination.

God forbid anything ever happens on the plane requiring medical assistance, emergency evacuation, etc. I assume you would be unbothered not being in close proximity to your elementary schooler then. Good for you!

God forbid! I guess if we're that worried we wouldn't fly at all. I assume you drive to every destination?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would just like to remind people that there may be reasons that parents really want to sit next to their kids and tweens. My older daughter would be totally fine sitting alone since she was like 4. My younger kid has severe anxiety and has a hard time sitting with people she doesn't know. Can she do it? Yes. But she will sit there the entire time in a nervous state and have a breakdown when we arrive at our location (and yes, she sees a therapist and is on medication).

We once got our seats switched (that we booked well in advance and paid for) and I had to beg people to switch. She was 11, so I know that most people would think she should sit by herself, but it would make it even worse for her if I had to explain to people why we needed to sit together.

Lesson of the story-- you don't know what is going on with a family, so maybe just be a decent person and switch seats if asked nicely?

I sympathize with your daughter, but this is an unreasonable and unrealistic ask. You're suggesting that if asked nicely, people should switch no matter what, because there might be a unicorn issue, but that you don't want to explain why? Come on.

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Anonymous wrote:Last week I flew cross country and had a middle seat. A couple came and they had the aisle and window seats on either side of me. They said they book that way in hopes the middle seat is not taken. They offered to trade me the middle for the aisle and I sure as hell took them up on the offer! But otherwise, I wouldn’t trade aisle for window, not with my bladder.

I refuse to switch with the absolute A-holes who do this. They make so much harder for people who actually want to sit together to find seats together.

F—k them. I keep my middle seat every time.

Please explain? Because the math is not mathing.

Whenever i try to book a flight lately with my family, i encounter planes for which literally the only empty seats are middle seats. Therefore it is impossible for me to find even two seats together despite a willingness to pay and what (to me) is a perfectly reasonable timeline for booking flights.

Now, i understand first-come, first served and i am not complaining. It the flight happens to have been filled by a bunch of singletons or people who otherwise don’t want to sit next to someone, fine, I’ll deal.

But it makes my blood boil when people do it deliberately in effort to game the system. I repeat, F—k them. I carefully selected my middle seat out of the dozens of middle seats and I’m keeping it.

First, "reasonable to you" means nothing, if the majority of the seats are already booked. But that's beside the point.

In the scenario you are describing, it doesn't matter *which* two seats the earlier bookers took - there still won't be any seats together for your family. Let's say that no couple traveling together did what you are complaining about, and all took either the middle and window or middle and aisle seats. It's no easier for you to find seats together, because there's still only one seats available in the row.

How is this not obvious?

Because singletons in windows/aisles could still sit next to couples in window/middle or aisle/middle you freaking dumb@$$.

How is THAT not obvious?

NP. I'm not following. Are you saying that you think couples should only ever book window+middle or aisle+aisle, never aisle+middle or aisle+window?

The person to whom you are responding is crazy unhinged.
This doesn't work like concert seating, where there are algorithms to make sure sets of two stay open.
anyone can pick any seat they want. There is no obligation to leave sets of two seats open.

I know for my family the most important thing is getting to the destination we want on a certain schedule. Making sure we're all sitting together is lower on the priority list. I think the airline knows this so there isn't much of an incentive to police the seat selection. If my family of 5 had to take 5 middle seats we would as long as we're getting the flight day, time and price we want, and it's our fault for booking so late. My youngest is 10 and I wouldn't beg anyone to trade seats with us. We'll spend time together at our destination.

God forbid anything ever happens on the plane requiring medical assistance, emergency evacuation, etc. I assume you would be unbothered not being in close proximity to your elementary schooler then. Good for you!

Your survival odds are better if you spread out.

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Anonymous wrote:Last week I flew cross country and had a middle seat. A couple came and they had the aisle and window seats on either side of me. They said they book that way in hopes the middle seat is not taken. They offered to trade me the middle for the aisle and I sure as hell took them up on the offer! But otherwise, I wouldn’t trade aisle for window, not with my bladder.

I refuse to switch with the absolute A-holes who do this. They make so much harder for people who actually want to sit together to find seats together.

F—k them. I keep my middle seat every time.

Please explain? Because the math is not mathing.

Whenever i try to book a flight lately with my family, i encounter planes for which literally the only empty seats are middle seats. Therefore it is impossible for me to find even two seats together despite a willingness to pay and what (to me) is a perfectly reasonable timeline for booking flights.

Now, i understand first-come, first served and i am not complaining. It the flight happens to have been filled by a bunch of singletons or people who otherwise don’t want to sit next to someone, fine, I’ll deal.

But it makes my blood boil when people do it deliberately in effort to game the system. I repeat, F—k them. I carefully selected my middle seat out of the dozens of middle seats and I’m keeping it.

First, "reasonable to you" means nothing, if the majority of the seats are already booked. But that's beside the point.

In the scenario you are describing, it doesn't matter *which* two seats the earlier bookers took - there still won't be any seats together for your family. Let's say that no couple traveling together did what you are complaining about, and all took either the middle and window or middle and aisle seats. It's no easier for you to find seats together, because there's still only one seats available in the row.

How is this not obvious?

Because singletons in windows/aisles could still sit next to couples in window/middle or aisle/middle you freaking dumb@$$.

How is THAT not obvious?

NP. I'm not following. Are you saying that you think couples should only ever book window+middle or aisle+aisle, never aisle+middle or aisle+window?

The person to whom you are responding is crazy unhinged.
This doesn't work like concert seating, where there are algorithms to make sure sets of two stay open.
anyone can pick any seat they want. There is no obligation to leave sets of two seats open.

I know for my family the most important thing is getting to the destination we want on a certain schedule. Making sure we're all sitting together is lower on the priority list. I think the airline knows this so there isn't much of an incentive to police the seat selection. If my family of 5 had to take 5 middle seats we would as long as we're getting the flight day, time and price we want, and it's our fault for booking so late. My youngest is 10 and I wouldn't beg anyone to trade seats with us. We'll spend time together at our destination.

God forbid anything ever happens on the plane requiring medical assistance, emergency evacuation, etc. I assume you would be unbothered not being in close proximity to your elementary schooler then. Good for you!

God forbid! I guess if we're that worried we wouldn't fly at all. I assume you drive to every destination?

This is an unbelievably stupid take. Being cognizant of safety concerns =/= one should never fly?

I’m sure the stranger will make sure your kid’s oxygen mask is well-fitted. If you can’t trust in that you should drive, amirite?!

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Anonymous wrote:Last week I flew cross country and had a middle seat. A couple came and they had the aisle and window seats on either side of me. They said they book that way in hopes the middle seat is not taken. They offered to trade me the middle for the aisle and I sure as hell took them up on the offer! But otherwise, I wouldn’t trade aisle for window, not with my bladder.

I refuse to switch with the absolute A-holes who do this. They make so much harder for people who actually want to sit together to find seats together.

F—k them. I keep my middle seat every time.

Please explain? Because the math is not mathing.

Whenever i try to book a flight lately with my family, i encounter planes for which literally the only empty seats are middle seats. Therefore it is impossible for me to find even two seats together despite a willingness to pay and what (to me) is a perfectly reasonable timeline for booking flights.

Now, i understand first-come, first served and i am not complaining. It the flight happens to have been filled by a bunch of singletons or people who otherwise don’t want to sit next to someone, fine, I’ll deal.

But it makes my blood boil when people do it deliberately in effort to game the system. I repeat, F—k them. I carefully selected my middle seat out of the dozens of middle seats and I’m keeping it.

First, "reasonable to you" means nothing, if the majority of the seats are already booked. But that's beside the point.

In the scenario you are describing, it doesn't matter *which* two seats the earlier bookers took - there still won't be any seats together for your family. Let's say that no couple traveling together did what you are complaining about, and all took either the middle and window or middle and aisle seats. It's no easier for you to find seats together, because there's still only one seats available in the row.

How is this not obvious?

Because singletons in windows/aisles could still sit next to couples in window/middle or aisle/middle you freaking dumb@$$.

How is THAT not obvious?

NP. I'm not following. Are you saying that you think couples should only ever book window+middle or aisle+aisle, never aisle+middle or aisle+window?

The person to whom you are responding is crazy unhinged.
This doesn't work like concert seating, where there are algorithms to make sure sets of two stay open.
anyone can pick any seat they want. There is no obligation to leave sets of two seats open.

I know for my family the most important thing is getting to the destination we want on a certain schedule. Making sure we're all sitting together is lower on the priority list. I think the airline knows this so there isn't much of an incentive to police the seat selection. If my family of 5 had to take 5 middle seats we would as long as we're getting the flight day, time and price we want, and it's our fault for booking so late. My youngest is 10 and I wouldn't beg anyone to trade seats with us. We'll spend time together at our destination.

God forbid anything ever happens on the plane requiring medical assistance, emergency evacuation, etc. I assume you would be unbothered not being in close proximity to your elementary schooler then. Good for you!

Your survival odds are better if you spread out.

I would bet money that you’re the type who would call the police on the parents of “free-range” kids being at the playground unsupervised

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Anonymous wrote:Last week I flew cross country and had a middle seat. A couple came and they had the aisle and window seats on either side of me. They said they book that way in hopes the middle seat is not taken. They offered to trade me the middle for the aisle and I sure as hell took them up on the offer! But otherwise, I wouldn’t trade aisle for window, not with my bladder.

I refuse to switch with the absolute A-holes who do this. They make so much harder for people who actually want to sit together to find seats together.

F—k them. I keep my middle seat every time.

Please explain? Because the math is not mathing.

Whenever i try to book a flight lately with my family, i encounter planes for which literally the only empty seats are middle seats. Therefore it is impossible for me to find even two seats together despite a willingness to pay and what (to me) is a perfectly reasonable timeline for booking flights.

Now, i understand first-come, first served and i am not complaining. It the flight happens to have been filled by a bunch of singletons or people who otherwise don’t want to sit next to someone, fine, I’ll deal.

But it makes my blood boil when people do it deliberately in effort to game the system. I repeat, F—k them. I carefully selected my middle seat out of the dozens of middle seats and I’m keeping it.

First, "reasonable to you" means nothing, if the majority of the seats are already booked. But that's beside the point.

In the scenario you are describing, it doesn't matter *which* two seats the earlier bookers took - there still won't be any seats together for your family. Let's say that no couple traveling together did what you are complaining about, and all took either the middle and window or middle and aisle seats. It's no easier for you to find seats together, because there's still only one seats available in the row.

How is this not obvious?

Because singletons in windows/aisles could still sit next to couples in window/middle or aisle/middle you freaking dumb@$$.

How is THAT not obvious?

NP. I'm not following. Are you saying that you think couples should only ever book window+middle or aisle+aisle, never aisle+middle or aisle+window?

The person to whom you are responding is crazy unhinged.
This doesn't work like concert seating, where there are algorithms to make sure sets of two stay open.
anyone can pick any seat they want. There is no obligation to leave sets of two seats open.

I know for my family the most important thing is getting to the destination we want on a certain schedule. Making sure we're all sitting together is lower on the priority list. I think the airline knows this so there isn't much of an incentive to police the seat selection. If my family of 5 had to take 5 middle seats we would as long as we're getting the flight day, time and price we want, and it's our fault for booking so late. My youngest is 10 and I wouldn't beg anyone to trade seats with us. We'll spend time together at our destination.

God forbid anything ever happens on the plane requiring medical assistance, emergency evacuation, etc. I assume you would be unbothered not being in close proximity to your elementary schooler then. Good for you!

Your survival odds are better if you spread out.

I would bet money that you’re the type who would call the police on the parents of “free-range” kids being at the playground unsupervised

WTF would you think that? I have the batty old ladies ringing my door bell for letting my kids ride bikes alone on our very safe neighborhood street. I already said how old my youngest was. Swing, and a miss.