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Anonymous wrote:So interesting to hear that spouses pick window/aisle. I hate the window seat, I feel so claustrophobic in it. DH and I usually pick aisle seats across from each other, although these days we only travel as a family of 4.

Yeah, but I can't see picking the window seat (which I like) while dh took the aisle seat and then wanting a stranger to sit in between us. I can see sitting in the aisle seats across from one another, though.

Are you making out or having deep philosophical conversations on the plane? Once again for the people in the back, headphones in, eyes closed.

I would be talking to my husband on an hours long plane ride. Of course I would. What is so weird about that? And why would I want to talk over some random person sitting in between us? That seems brutally rude to me. So rude, in fact, that I would never think to do it.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why only the middle seat woman got booted. Morbidly obese woman was cursing and should have been booted too.

Old bitch got booted because she was acting like a bitch.

Nothing wrong with cursing. Especially if someone just verbally abused you.

Middle woman didn't verbally abuse her - at least not on the video that the woman took.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why only the middle seat woman got booted. Morbidly obese woman was cursing and should have been booted too.

Old bitch got booted because she was acting like a bitch.

Nothing wrong with cursing. Especially if someone just verbally abused you.

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why only the middle seat woman got booted. Morbidly obese woman was cursing and should have been booted too.

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Good customer service means making all your customers welcome. Airlines could:

- have some bigger seats that are more expensive but aren't double the price of others.
- be clear about seat sizes and distance between seats in the coming process
- dont move or rebook people who have chosen a bigger seat for this reason
- dont give away extra seats that are purchased for this reason
- don't overbook flights
- don't charge extra for seat selection

They already have a lot of that and/or it won't address the problem.

If you want a bigger seat, pay for first class. I travel a lot for work but I know my trip plans many months in advance. First class, when bought far ahead, is the same price as buying economy class a month or two ahead.

Seat sizes are easily found on seatguru.com and the airline's website. It's not hidden at all.

Seat selection is a value to customers.. they should charge for it if people are willing to pay. Besides, that won't solve the issue if 2 large people traveling together choose to sit in the same row/section.

I agree airlines shouldnt' give away extra seats -- I didn't realize this was so common.

The issue is the two larger adults clearly planned this to either get an empty middle seat or let someone else have the space burden. They should have picked two seats together instead of selfishly putting a stranger in the middle of them. I would have been pissed. I've had it happen and its miserable. She should have handled it better asking for a seat change, but most likely there were not any extra seats. The larger folks should should have put her on the isle and taken the window and middle.

I bet they at least know how to spell aisle since they were clever enough to go for this seat strategy.

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My DH and I do this all of the time. Why would you intentionally sit in a middle seat? If the middle seat gets taken then you can switch but if you book a middle seat you will definitely have a middle seat.

- frequent flyers, not obese

Its rude, you take two seats next to each other. No one wants to sit in the middle of your conversation, you handing things back and forth, etc. I have no issue with a middle seat but I don't want you touching me nor do I want to hear your conversations or stuff being passed back and forth.

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the fat ones could've at least gotten the window and the middle seat but no they knew if they sat next to each other they couldn't move. They didn't care about giving no room to the middle seat person long as they didn't have to pay. Can't believe the fat one is a nurse too.

No way. You all are ridiculous. Fat or skinny, if I book my flight with enough advance notice and have the option, my DH and I will always book window/aisle. Traveling is awful and you make the best of it - window and aisle seats are the better choice. why should I take the less optimal choice just because I'm traveling with someone? You don't want to be in the middle of my conversation? you don't want to be in the middle of us handing stuff back and forth? Then book your trip early enough and PICK YOUR OWN AISLE OR WINDOW SEAT. Don't expect me to suffer just to make your life better.

I would tell you to switch if you were having conversations around me and passing stuff. Sometimes you do book early enough. If I'm alone I don't care where I sit so I'm not spending extra money to avoid nasty people like you. If you want to be next to your spouse, book tickets accordingly and not annoy the middle passenger. If you cannot sit in a middle seat, maybe you should learn something from this thread... try some salad.

No one of any size would prefer a middle seat...

I don't care. Last time I flew with my child, I sat in the middle as he wanted the window. No big deal. A nice woman sat next to me.

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Good customer service means making all your customers welcome. Airlines could:

- have some bigger seats that are more expensive but aren't double the price of others.
- be clear about seat sizes and distance between seats in the coming process
- dont move or rebook people who have chosen a bigger seat for this reason
- dont give away extra seats that are purchased for this reason
- don't overbook flights
- don't charge extra for seat selection

They already have a lot of that and/or it won't address the problem.

If you want a bigger seat, pay for first class. I travel a lot for work but I know my trip plans many months in advance. First class, when bought far ahead, is the same price as buying economy class a month or two ahead.

Seat sizes are easily found on seatguru.com and the airline's website. It's not hidden at all.

Seat selection is a value to customers.. they should charge for it if people are willing to pay. Besides, that won't solve the issue if 2 large people traveling together choose to sit in the same row/section.

I agree airlines shouldnt' give away extra seats -- I didn't realize this was so common.

The issue is the two larger adults clearly planned this to either get an empty middle seat or let someone else have the space burden. They should have picked two seats together instead of selfishly putting a stranger in the middle of them. I would have been pissed. I've had it happen and its miserable. She should have handled it better asking for a seat change, but most likely there were not any extra seats. The larger folks should should have put her on the isle and taken the window and middle.

I bet they at least know how to spell aisle since they were clever enough to go for this seat strategy.

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My DH and I do this all of the time. Why would you intentionally sit in a middle seat? If the middle seat gets taken then you can switch but if you book a middle seat you will definitely have a middle seat.

- frequent flyers, not obese

Its rude, you take two seats next to each other. No one wants to sit in the middle of your conversation, you handing things back and forth, etc. I have no issue with a middle seat but I don't want you touching me nor do I want to hear your conversations or stuff being passed back and forth.

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the fat ones could've at least gotten the window and the middle seat but no they knew if they sat next to each other they couldn't move. They didn't care about giving no room to the middle seat person long as they didn't have to pay. Can't believe the fat one is a nurse too.

No way. You all are ridiculous. Fat or skinny, if I book my flight with enough advance notice and have the option, my DH and I will always book window/aisle. Traveling is awful and you make the best of it - window and aisle seats are the better choice. why should I take the less optimal choice just because I'm traveling with someone? You don't want to be in the middle of my conversation? you don't want to be in the middle of us handing stuff back and forth? Then book your trip early enough and PICK YOUR OWN AISLE OR WINDOW SEAT. Don't expect me to suffer just to make your life better.

I would tell you to switch if you were having conversations around me and passing stuff. Sometimes you do book early enough. If I'm alone I don't care where I sit so I'm not spending extra money to avoid nasty people like you. If you want to be next to your spouse, book tickets accordingly and not annoy the middle passenger. If you cannot sit in a middle seat, maybe you should learn something from this thread... try some salad.

No one of any size would prefer a middle seat...

I don't care. Last time I flew with my child, I sat in the middle as he wanted the window. No big deal. A nice woman sat next to me.

Y'all ignorant and entitled and want more seats than you pay for. You will get what you have coming.

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Good customer service means making all your customers welcome. Airlines could:

- have some bigger seats that are more expensive but aren't double the price of others.
- be clear about seat sizes and distance between seats in the coming process
- dont move or rebook people who have chosen a bigger seat for this reason
- dont give away extra seats that are purchased for this reason
- don't overbook flights
- don't charge extra for seat selection

They already have a lot of that and/or it won't address the problem.

If you want a bigger seat, pay for first class. I travel a lot for work but I know my trip plans many months in advance. First class, when bought far ahead, is the same price as buying economy class a month or two ahead.

Seat sizes are easily found on seatguru.com and the airline's website. It's not hidden at all.

Seat selection is a value to customers.. they should charge for it if people are willing to pay. Besides, that won't solve the issue if 2 large people traveling together choose to sit in the same row/section.

I agree airlines shouldnt' give away extra seats -- I didn't realize this was so common.

The issue is the two larger adults clearly planned this to either get an empty middle seat or let someone else have the space burden. They should have picked two seats together instead of selfishly putting a stranger in the middle of them. I would have been pissed. I've had it happen and its miserable. She should have handled it better asking for a seat change, but most likely there were not any extra seats. The larger folks should should have put her on the isle and taken the window and middle.

I bet they at least know how to spell aisle since they were clever enough to go for this seat strategy.

+1

My DH and I do this all of the time. Why would you intentionally sit in a middle seat? If the middle seat gets taken then you can switch but if you book a middle seat you will definitely have a middle seat.

- frequent flyers, not obese

Its rude, you take two seats next to each other. No one wants to sit in the middle of your conversation, you handing things back and forth, etc. I have no issue with a middle seat but I don't want you touching me nor do I want to hear your conversations or stuff being passed back and forth.

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the fat ones could've at least gotten the window and the middle seat but no they knew if they sat next to each other they couldn't move. They didn't care about giving no room to the middle seat person long as they didn't have to pay. Can't believe the fat one is a nurse too.

No way. You all are ridiculous. Fat or skinny, if I book my flight with enough advance notice and have the option, my DH and I will always book window/aisle. Traveling is awful and you make the best of it - window and aisle seats are the better choice. why should I take the less optimal choice just because I'm traveling with someone? You don't want to be in the middle of my conversation? you don't want to be in the middle of us handing stuff back and forth? Then book your trip early enough and PICK YOUR OWN AISLE OR WINDOW SEAT. Don't expect me to suffer just to make your life better.

I would tell you to switch if you were having conversations around me and passing stuff. Sometimes you do book early enough. If I'm alone I don't care where I sit so I'm not spending extra money to avoid nasty people like you. If you want to be next to your spouse, book tickets accordingly and not annoy the middle passenger. If you cannot sit in a middle seat, maybe you should learn something from this thread... try some salad.

No one of any size would prefer a middle seat...

I don't care. Last time I flew with my child, I sat in the middle as he wanted the window. No big deal. A nice woman sat next to me.

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Good customer service means making all your customers welcome. Airlines could:

- have some bigger seats that are more expensive but aren't double the price of others.
- be clear about seat sizes and distance between seats in the coming process
- dont move or rebook people who have chosen a bigger seat for this reason
- dont give away extra seats that are purchased for this reason
- don't overbook flights
- don't charge extra for seat selection

They already have a lot of that and/or it won't address the problem.

If you want a bigger seat, pay for first class. I travel a lot for work but I know my trip plans many months in advance. First class, when bought far ahead, is the same price as buying economy class a month or two ahead.

Seat sizes are easily found on seatguru.com and the airline's website. It's not hidden at all.

Seat selection is a value to customers.. they should charge for it if people are willing to pay. Besides, that won't solve the issue if 2 large people traveling together choose to sit in the same row/section.

I agree airlines shouldnt' give away extra seats -- I didn't realize this was so common.

The issue is the two larger adults clearly planned this to either get an empty middle seat or let someone else have the space burden. They should have picked two seats together instead of selfishly putting a stranger in the middle of them. I would have been pissed. I've had it happen and its miserable. She should have handled it better asking for a seat change, but most likely there were not any extra seats. The larger folks should should have put her on the isle and taken the window and middle.

I bet they at least know how to spell aisle since they were clever enough to go for this seat strategy.

+1

My DH and I do this all of the time. Why would you intentionally sit in a middle seat? If the middle seat gets taken then you can switch but if you book a middle seat you will definitely have a middle seat.

- frequent flyers, not obese

Its rude, you take two seats next to each other. No one wants to sit in the middle of your conversation, you handing things back and forth, etc. I have no issue with a middle seat but I don't want you touching me nor do I want to hear your conversations or stuff being passed back and forth.

+1

the fat ones could've at least gotten the window and the middle seat but no they knew if they sat next to each other they couldn't move. They didn't care about giving no room to the middle seat person long as they didn't have to pay. Can't believe the fat one is a nurse too.

No way. You all are ridiculous. Fat or skinny, if I book my flight with enough advance notice and have the option, my DH and I will always book window/aisle. Traveling is awful and you make the best of it - window and aisle seats are the better choice. why should I take the less optimal choice just because I'm traveling with someone? You don't want to be in the middle of my conversation? you don't want to be in the middle of us handing stuff back and forth? Then book your trip early enough and PICK YOUR OWN AISLE OR WINDOW SEAT. Don't expect me to suffer just to make your life better.

I would tell you to switch if you were having conversations around me and passing stuff. Sometimes you do book early enough. If I'm alone I don't care where I sit so I'm not spending extra money to avoid nasty people like you. If you want to be next to your spouse, book tickets accordingly and not annoy the middle passenger. If you cannot sit in a middle seat, maybe you should learn something from this thread... try some salad.

No one of any size would prefer a middle seat...

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Anonymous wrote:This thread makes me feel like I live on an entirely different planet. I can't remember the last time I was on a flight with empty seats - usually they're begging people to check carry-ons because it's full. So switching seats would be impossible. I also feel like 90% of the flights I've taken in the past 5-10 years have been Southwest. They always seem to have the most availability and are the cheapest. And Southwest doesn't do assigned seats. So all this discussion of "buy an aisle" or "ask the FA kindly to switch" is completely irrelevant to most flights I've been on.

You admit you fly one airline essentially and that their policies make it so you can't relate to these other suggestions. But you seem to be concluding chart these suggestions are out of touch instead of understanding that southwest is just different. Which it is.

You're forgetting that this is a DC forum, which would assume most of us are flying out of the same place. So to assume that a lot of other people on this board have the same experience as me is very reasonable. Hence my surprise that so many posters are discussing things that would not apply to Southwest.

What? I am a native Washingtonian, and have lived here for almost all of my almost 50 years. I have flown Southwest only a handful of times, and only when nothing else was available.

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Anonymous wrote:So interesting to hear that spouses pick window/aisle. I hate the window seat, I feel so claustrophobic in it. DH and I usually pick aisle seats across from each other, although these days we only travel as a family of 4.

Yeah, but I can't see picking the window seat (which I like) while dh took the aisle seat and then wanting a stranger to sit in between us. I can see sitting in the aisle seats across from one another, though.

Are you making out or having deep philosophical conversations on the plane? Once again for the people in the back, headphones in, eyes closed.

I would be talking to my husband on an hours long plane ride. Of course I would. What is so weird about that? And why would I want to talk over some random person sitting in between us? That seems brutally rude to me. So rude, in fact, that I would never think to do it.

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Anonymous wrote:So interesting to hear that spouses pick window/aisle. I hate the window seat, I feel so claustrophobic in it. DH and I usually pick aisle seats across from each other, although these days we only travel as a family of 4.

Yeah, but I can't see picking the window seat (which I like) while dh took the aisle seat and then wanting a stranger to sit in between us. I can see sitting in the aisle seats across from one another, though.

Are you making out or having deep philosophical conversations on the plane? Once again for the people in the back, headphones in, eyes closed.

I would be talking to my husband on an hours long plane ride. Of course I would. What is so weird about that? And why would I want to talk over some random person sitting in between us? That seems brutally rude to me. So rude, in fact, that I would never think to do it.

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Good customer service means making all your customers welcome. Airlines could:

- have some bigger seats that are more expensive but aren't double the price of others.
- be clear about seat sizes and distance between seats in the coming process
- dont move or rebook people who have chosen a bigger seat for this reason
- dont give away extra seats that are purchased for this reason
- don't overbook flights
- don't charge extra for seat selection

They already have a lot of that and/or it won't address the problem.

If you want a bigger seat, pay for first class. I travel a lot for work but I know my trip plans many months in advance. First class, when bought far ahead, is the same price as buying economy class a month or two ahead.

Seat sizes are easily found on seatguru.com and the airline's website. It's not hidden at all.

Seat selection is a value to customers.. they should charge for it if people are willing to pay. Besides, that won't solve the issue if 2 large people traveling together choose to sit in the same row/section.

I agree airlines shouldnt' give away extra seats -- I didn't realize this was so common.

The issue is the two larger adults clearly planned this to either get an empty middle seat or let someone else have the space burden. They should have picked two seats together instead of selfishly putting a stranger in the middle of them. I would have been pissed. I've had it happen and its miserable. She should have handled it better asking for a seat change, but most likely there were not any extra seats. The larger folks should should have put her on the isle and taken the window and middle.

I bet they at least know how to spell aisle since they were clever enough to go for this seat strategy.

+1

My DH and I do this all of the time. Why would you intentionally sit in a middle seat? If the middle seat gets taken then you can switch but if you book a middle seat you will definitely have a middle seat.

- frequent flyers, not obese

Its rude, you take two seats next to each other. No one wants to sit in the middle of your conversation, you handing things back and forth, etc. I have no issue with a middle seat but I don't want you touching me nor do I want to hear your conversations or stuff being passed back and forth.

+1

the fat ones could've at least gotten the window and the middle seat but no they knew if they sat next to each other they couldn't move. They didn't care about giving no room to the middle seat person long as they didn't have to pay. Can't believe the fat one is a nurse too.

No way. You all are ridiculous. Fat or skinny, if I book my flight with enough advance notice and have the option, my DH and I will always book window/aisle. Traveling is awful and you make the best of it - window and aisle seats are the better choice. why should I take the less optimal choice just because I'm traveling with someone? You don't want to be in the middle of my conversation? you don't want to be in the middle of us handing stuff back and forth? Then book your trip early enough and PICK YOUR OWN AISLE OR WINDOW SEAT. Don't expect me to suffer just to make your life better.

I would tell you to switch if you were having conversations around me and passing stuff. Sometimes you do book early enough. If I'm alone I don't care where I sit so I'm not spending extra money to avoid nasty people like you. If you want to be next to your spouse, book tickets accordingly and not annoy the middle passenger. If you cannot sit in a middle seat, maybe you should learn something from this thread... try some salad.

DP. And I'd tell you that you aren't the boss of me. If you want to avoid people like me then pay the fee to the airline.

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Anonymous wrote:So interesting to hear that spouses pick window/aisle. I hate the window seat, I feel so claustrophobic in it. DH and I usually pick aisle seats across from each other, although these days we only travel as a family of 4.

Yeah, but I can't see picking the window seat (which I like) while dh took the aisle seat and then wanting a stranger to sit in between us. I can see sitting in the aisle seats across from one another, though.

Are you making out or having deep philosophical conversations on the plane? Once again for the people in the back, headphones in, eyes closed.

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Anonymous wrote:This thread makes me feel like I live on an entirely different planet. I can't remember the last time I was on a flight with empty seats - usually they're begging people to check carry-ons because it's full. So switching seats would be impossible. I also feel like 90% of the flights I've taken in the past 5-10 years have been Southwest. They always seem to have the most availability and are the cheapest. And Southwest doesn't do assigned seats. So all this discussion of "buy an aisle" or "ask the FA kindly to switch" is completely irrelevant to most flights I've been on.

You admit you fly one airline essentially and that their policies make it so you can't relate to these other suggestions. But you seem to be concluding chart these suggestions are out of touch instead of understanding that southwest is just different. Which it is.

You're forgetting that this is a DC forum, which would assume most of us are flying out of the same place. So to assume that a lot of other people on this board have the same experience as me is very reasonable. Hence my surprise that so many posters are discussing things that would not apply to Southwest.