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It’s Friday; let’s be frivolous!
When looking at choosing a seat on the plane do you ever wonder why other people pick their seats?
I’m travelling on a BA A320 tomorrow.
The whole of row 6 is booked. None of row 7. But the whole of row 8 is booked. What’s wrong with row 7 as they all cost the same?
People who book the middle and aisle, are they hoping that no one will book the window so they get 3 seats? I’d have thought booking window and aisle is more likely to get an empty middle seat. Or are they travelling with people on the other side of the aisle who also booked aisle and middle?
There are a lot of middle and aisle seats booked on my flight which surprises me!
I wonder if row 6 and 7 are as a result of Club curtain roulette ie at one point the club cabin stretched back to row 7 and has now moved forward to row 5 so people have quickly selected row 6 but no one has chosen row 7 yet.
I think you’re correct with people choosing aisle and centre seats hoping the window seat does not get picked and they end up with 3 seats between 2. A strategy that is likely to go wrong in my view.
I had booked 4A on a CE flight. Rows 5, 6 and 7 are empty. Someone then chooses to sit next to me! Why, just why ?
At the risk of ruffling some feathers, I can never understand as a 6’3″ guy, with a 6’5″ son(definitely in possession of ‘extra legs’), why the people in the extra legroom seats are always tiny!
In the days before paying to book seats became the norm, four of us in our early 20s flying cheap economy to Australia had to ‘go upstairs’ and prove to the Austrian Airlines cabin crew that we were all strapping six footers before they’d release the seats!!
On a short flight I’ll often pick an aisle seat so I can get to my bag and deplane asap! I hate being the person holding everyone up while they scrabble in the overheads. If I want to be off quickly, I’ll deliberately not pick an exit row if I’ve just got a small bag which will fit under the seat in front (actually a surprisingly big bag can be wedged under the seat in front).
I have short legs so I’m lucky in that respect! Also if you pick the aisle seat you’re only going to have a man-spreader on one side of you at the most, and you don’t have to ask anyone to get up if you need the loo 😂
I prefer the aisle seat generally, easier to do wee-wees. Not in the seat of course.
I had booked 4A on a CE flight. Rows 5, 6 and 7 are empty. Someone then chooses to sit next to me! Why, just why ?
That would really annoy me!!
Yes, my seat of choice is also aisle so I can get up without bothering other people.
Window seats are definitely overrated, unless you really like looking at clouds!
*That said, there are some descents worth watching, such as GIB and TFS.
Disagree. Always prefer a window seat. You get a few inches of extra leaning room, and I have pics of everything from Chicago at 25000 feet as I flew past from DEN-LAS, to the O2, Venice, Golden Gate Bridge from a stunning angle during descent into SFO, Colorado river winding through the Rockies, plus the Andes and Greenland.
Window for me every time. I like the leaning room too on short haul.
I’ve been tempted by the middle double seats in club on long haul, when mr Annie is with me but can’t be without a window so we end up one behind the other instead.We always sit like that in CS, for the extra space – I have to kneel up if I want to see out of the window properly though, so never see anything on take off or landing!
If it’s 2 of us I pick 2 aisle seats, if it’s 4 of us I pick either 4 in a row, still 2 aisle seats or sometimes 3 in a row and the aisle seat behind for me, so that nobody can recline on me. Never understood the attraction of window seats.
And if you’re travelling on your own, better to pick the aisle seat where the window is already taken. Pick that in an empty row and there’s a bigger chance the middle and window seat will be taken by a couple.
If load factors are around 80%, given not everyone is travelling solo, that strategy is more often than not going to get you an empty middle seat.
I had booked 4A on a CE flight. Rows 5, 6 and 7 are empty. Someone then chooses to sit next to me! Why, just why ?
“The computer made me”?
I had booked 4A on a CE flight. Rows 5, 6 and 7 are empty. Someone then chooses to sit next to me! Why, just why ?
Further forward better chance of meal choice.
I always have a window seat!
In short haul economy, especially for those unpleasant evening flights, it’s just snug and relaxing to lean against the side and go to sleep, and not feel crowded out – to me it seems so much more comfortable.
For long haul in any class, for those continental routes, I love gazing out at the slowly changing views for a long time (yes there are routes which don’t always have ocean or cloud!). Glorious views of Armenia, Sahara, Balochistan, Kuwait and Siberia are highlights for me but I’m sure everyone has their own favourites.On my own I prefer aisle as I don’t like having to go past someone to get out.
However on medium haul overnights in Y (basically UK to ME) I may choose window and not get out at all.
when I was young I loved the window for the view
now I’m old I take the aisle for the loo
A321 long haul aircraft have business class seats in a 1-1 configuration, sounds like a winner.
My father emigrated to Canada in 1939 – so joined up with the RCAF when the war started.
After training as an air gunner, he ended up being flown across the Atlantic because they were so short of aircrew in Bomber Command. I reckon he might have been in the first 10-20,000 people to be flown across the Atlantic. Certainly the first 100,000.
So, why wouldn’t one love a window seat – even over the boring Atlantic clouds? How many people in the whole history of the world have ever seen a continent approach from the air?
Sometimes, with suites, doors, meh food etc we forget about the pure magic of flight.
My preference is window. We were on one of the last flights from Muscat with BA in March 2020. The view of the Pyramids as we flew over was stunning. Have also had wonderful views of Table Mountain, Uluru and Sydney Harbour and many other wonderful places. I still remember flying between the skyscrapers into Kai Tak!
OH and I often fly on different PNRs, so find when travelling CE (I’m silver, OH bronze) he can’t book seat next to me as blocked, so he chooses row behind if available or aisle 7 days out. On recent flights the adjacent seat to me has remained empty (especially on holiday routes). I know at 7 days out I can remove my reserved seat whilst he books his seat and then I can book next to him – but sometimes it’s nice to travel “alone”! He’s also asked crew if he can move, once last passenger has boarded. He prefers aisle as he’s tall.
Flying east definitely makes for better views! I remember flying into the old Hong Kong airport in the early 90s when the plane wings nearly took the washing off people’s balconies, lol. Also gazing out of the window for about 4 hours straight when flying over Australia and the descent over the Blue Mountains into SYD.
Also landing into DXB at night was pretty cool.
Although people don’t think of it as that exciting, the descent into TFS is magnificent, you fly nearly all the way around Mt Teide on the descent and it’s stunning, especially if there’s snow up there.
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