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[quote=Anonymous]I have to say that those of you who book later flights because of middle seats are also hurting the airline industry.  The airline industry is struggling to make ends meet right now.  One of the best ways for them to make more money is to fly full planes.  Every empty seat is lost income to them.  By not filling up the plane, you are making each flight more expensive, losing some of the profitability and making them have to make more decisions like charging for checked bags, etc.  And while you think you're still spending the money, or even more money, when you book the later flight, those seats are less available to other later flyers and may make other passengers switch airlines to another carrier to get a flight that costs less or otherwise fits their needs.  If you only need one extra person to move, then booking two seats together and a third elsewhere and trying to get one person to move actually helps the airline.  I agree that a family of 5 is a different case, unless you can get 3 seats together and 2 seats together, but booking so as to ask one person to switch shouldn't be the problem that many of you are making it out to be.

And no, I've never had to do this because I have flown Southwest for many years, but before, I did give up my seat, yes, even for a middle seat, when I was single traveler.[/quote]

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