To get ragey at people booking seats for a flight

[DwangelaForever]

And leaving the window seat seriously if you're a couple book the inside two seats, it's so frustrating.

Also what determines if an infant can sit on a particular seat, I've just selected my seats for the flight and me and hubby have to sit one behind the other in window seats because my daughter apparently can't sit in that row 🙄

'I wouldn't put up with them talking across me and I'd move to either the window or
the aisle seat and let them sit together.'

I took by 'B' seat as allocated at Check in.

I then had 2 pax who were obviously related pitch up and start stashing bags. They were in seat A and C.

"Oh I'll move along so you guys can sit together.

Father 'oh thanks but I always like a window seat for this route'

Daughter 'and I simply have to have an aisle'

Stuck in the middle

I asked if I could move but flight was full.

It was an almost 4 hour sector.

Life must be hard for you OP

Just the two of us, never book seats on shorthaul flights, happy to take pot luck and if we get separated so be it.

Even when DS was with us, once he as a teen he was never bothered about where he sat in relation to us.

We usually land up towards the back, window and middle seats together or adjacent aisle seats.

'I would start joining in the conversation in the most inappropriate way! The rudeness of some people never ceases to astound me.'

I must admit at one stage I did a bit of a 'for goodness sake' style gesture with my hands. After the third pass of sweets.

3 colleagues were sat behind me and found it funny.

I always book aisle seat as I hate flying and want to be as far from window as possible

Isn't that funny, I hate flying but I have to go to sit by the window so I can see what's going on

My parents book the aisle and middle seat as my father is quite large and my mum wants to sit next to him.

DH is booked in the aisle seat in August in front of me and dd's when we go away as he likes the aisle seat.

We have paid for the privilege so anyone who doesn't like it can get stuffed.

TBH I don't really see and issue unless In a case like mine.

AB
BC

Acceptable

Just no gap between em'

I often travel alone and always book the aisle seat. It means I have a little more room for my legs due to the aisle, it means I don't have to ask someone who might be asleep to move if I need the loo and it means I can get out quickly to get my case from the overhead locker once the plane has landed.

If I fly with DH I always book sears either side of the aisle for the same reason.

YABU - if you want a specific seat- book earlier.

I always want a window seat. Dh always wants an aisle seat (long legs). Back in the day we used to book those and leave the middle seat free. We didn't hold hands or coo across the third person though.

My sister & I book our seats because we like to sit together when we go away.

We flew back from Lanzarote last year, actually had the 2 inside seats & the 'mature' lady on the aisle seat started kicking off because she was separated from her husband.

Well she hadn't booked.

She was so agitated & loud that I had to put my headphones on and listen to music the whole flight to block her out.

Literally she was separated from him by an aisle!! He kept coming over anyway and snogging her in front of me! Gross.

People who are tall like aisle seats or the other ones with extra leg room.

I'm a midgit and still like aisle seats.
I'm not the best flyer so i always book the aisle seat 3 rows from the front of the plane sometimes fourth or fifth if i have to . Mainly because i'm terrified of disasters happening. I want to be near the front so i can make a quick escape, same with the aisle seat, also if the police have to storm the plane in a terror incident, i'm far enough back from the door that if they blow the door, i won't be badly injured by it.
The key thing is i book the seat, so am entitled to it

Aisle and middle seat here too.

You want to be me! On most airlines, as a disabled traveler, I have to be in a specific row, by the window.

If you’re flying to go on holiday, be glad you’re going and get over it.

I know a lot of couples who book the window and the isle or isle and middle in the hope that no one will take the odd seat and to be honest 4 out if 5 times then end up having the row to themselves.

I've not read the whole thread, so I'm probably the 30th person to say that infants have to sit in seats which have two oxygen masks, and they're the ones by the windows.

That would depend which flights they are on Callaird. A lot of the flights I've travelled on have been 100% occupancy so there are no spare seats and someone checking in late will be allocated that middle seat. I don't think some airlines allow people to take the aisle and window seat, I've seen this restriction on checking in before.

I’m a nervous flyer which makes me need the loo a lot and I book aisle seats so I can get up when I need to without having to keep bothering the others in my row.

Everyone has a right to book whatever seats they want, sorry if you’re not quick enough to nab the ones you want but it’s just how it goes I’m afraid.

As you don't have any right to dictate which seats people book, I'll continue to purposely book an aisle seat.

My husband prefers a window seat so sometimes we book an aisle and a window leaving the middle one for someone else.

BarbaraofSeville was it you and MrSeville I sat between that day I wonder

And leaving the window seat

They leave it so I can book it!

YABU.

And children can't sit in Exit rows.

You can only have 1 infant per seat of 3. And even then not every row will have an extra oxygen mask so they will only be allocated rows that have them. Its all to do with oxygen masks incase of loss of cabin pressure.

I once had to sit just me an baby on 2 seats as the check in staff accidentally put me, my DH and inf with 2 other ads and an inf in a row of 4 and someone had to move...i offered to go sit on my own with my son....other lady was all i cant move blah blah.
I got free drinks all flight for the inconvenience and 2 seats on my own with my son so lots of space 🙂 By having the 2 seats even though my son was on my knee, it meant we had 2 oxygen masks if cabin pressure dropped.

If a seat map shows you can have an infant, surely you can then book the one beside it for the 2nd ad....unless they are all booked.

As for 2 people booking isle and middle....they do it in the hope that the flight isnt full and no one will take the 3rd seat so they are left on the row of 3 between the 2 of them. The other trick is book isle and window cose no one wants a middle seat between 2 people.

Er, no, we don't do that . I was just saying it's a risky tactic on some types of flights because there never seems to be any empty seats, so the 4/5 success rate seems optimistic.

We nearly always take whatever the airline gives us for free, or will pay with Ryanair because we don't want two middle seats on separate rows.

Ideal scenario is window and middle, but middle/aisle or aisle/aisle is fine too.

If we were given window/aisle, we would offer the middle person to swap to the aisle as DP likes the window seat and we can usually manage to not need the toilet for the flights we take (northern England to Canaries so about 5 hours on the plane).

'cose no one wants a middle seat between 2 people.'

Quite

But if it's full then it's pretty excruciating having to sit there