To get ragey at people booking seats for a flight

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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 🙄

😂 Barbara

So you're cross that people are choosing the seats they like best because it interferes with you choosing the seats you like best?

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Totally unreasonable, people can book whatever seats they want

YABU people pay for the seats, if you don’t like the flights then book another flight, I often just get the window seats, our group splits up and a lot of them choose just the aisle seats and I know 3 of them hate aisle and window so they only choose the middle seats (often on empty rows)

YABU people pay for the seats, if you don’t like the flights then book another flight, I often just get the window seats, our group splits up and a lot of them choose just the aisle seats and I know 3 of them hate aisle and window so they only choose the middle seats (often on empty rows)

I prefer the aisle seats so I can get in and out without having to jump over people, my DH prefers the window so he can look out and also can lean his head on it to sleep. If it was just the two of us though I'd probably take the window and middle

There is an awful lot of explaining and justifying why people choose to pre-book/sit in specific seats on a plane going on in this thread.

The only reason needed is "because I want to".

Absolutely no justification or list of reasons why person a is more deserving is needed, especially given OP is just pissed off because the seat she wanted to book was already taken.

I hate window seats..can’t stand being trapped in so we always book the aisle and middle so we only have to disturb each other if we need the loo...

Ha ha ha - are you for real OP? You think you should be telling people what to book and not to book because of your preferences?! You might need to hire a private jet to accomodate your preferences I fear....

There is probably a perfectly good reason they have booked those seats. You are being unreasonable. Very.

I must be lucky, we always seem to get a plane with 2/4/2 configuration so just book 2 seats together for me and DH. He has the window, me the aisle

I always book the middle and aisle because DH is very tall and being at the aisle allows him to stretch his legs out.

Where are you going with planes like that Death. We've only travelled in Europe and it's always been 3/3 or I occasionally go on business trips on small planes with 2/2 but have never been on a plane with 2/4/2 before.

Am now wondering if it's worth going further afield to avoid middle seat angst.

Last time we went to NYC it was the standard 3/4/3 with three rows of twin seats at the very back and I managed to snag those (for free as well, one set of twins was still open 24 hours before check in!) but I've never seen a full 2/4/2 plane.

Its Cyprus we go with Tui, for the last 3 years we have always been on a 2/4/2 plane. Last year we came back on the Dreamliner. Its not a Dreamliner this year but still 2/4/2.

sorry, my bad, i think its a 2/3/2 plan

Never mind, Cyprus is on the list, but I've just looked at TUI, but they don't do accomodation where we want to go (to dive the Zenobia wreck in Larnaca Bay) and flight only prices are very expensive, so Jet2/Ryanair it will be for us when we do get there.

Most people dont want the middle seat so they are happy to swop. In 10 years together we have only had someone sit in the middle seat twice.

Tartanscarf - you swap seats so they get the window / aisle.

And how many times has that middle seat been full or empty? Most holiday flights are full or very nearly full in my experience, so an actual empty seat is a rare event (less than 10% of times, I'd say).

I usually just take what I'm given for free, but even if you could pick seats without paying I'm not sure if I could be arsed with games like this for the odd occasion where there's a free seat on our row.

@Libbie001 Most people dont want the middle seat so they are happy to swop. In 10 years together we have only had someone sit in the middle seat twice.
Yup, same here. And we deliberately choose quiet flights in term time so the issue rarely even comes up anyway.

@Tartanscarf I wouldn’t swap. Because you were trying to pull a fast one.
Aren't you just cutting off your nose to spite your face? Seems like an odd thing to do when someone offers you a better option. But if you like middle seats, then everyone's happy!

BarbaraofSevillle I usually take long haul flights so there are a lot of empty seats.

If its a short haul I would not bother as its only a few hours.

I like the window seat mostly. I almost never get that on family travel.

I'm generally quite happy to take an aisle seat. As long as those inside me aren't up and down all the time.

I almost always end up in the middle on family travel. Fine. Annoying but fine.

I often end up in the middle for work travel (alone) these days as work won't pay for booking seats in advance and with Ryanair you need to pay even on checkin nowadays (Aer Lingus allows you some choice on checkin - but that is only 30 hours before the flight). And I can't remember getting much choice on BA or KLM on recent trips either. (I take whatever flight option the system allows - and recently that has included going through London or Amsterdam and even a flight then a train on what has traditionally been a single flight route, not 2 legs).

The ONLY time I got annoyed about my seat was when I had actually been able to choose it in advance, I was convinced the travel agent had got it wrong (long haul, I got an F, I was reasonably sure that K was the RH window but for weeks the travel agent was assuring me that it was right - got on the outbound and I was in the middle (2-3-2 configuration in my cabin) of the middle, and stuck on an overnight flight between 2 portly gentlemen who both ate dinner and then put their feet up on the bulkhead and went to sleep - so I couldn't move and literally had to walk on the seat-arms to get to the toilet). I wasn't allowed move to an empty seat in that cabin for that flight, but I IMMEDIATELY got it changed for the return leg. That was in the days when entertainment centres were only in 1st class so it was a standard movie in the ceiling option, and a 10 hour flight........

I flew to Boston last week on a 400-seater plane with 141 people on it. I had a whole row of 2-4-2 to myself. They do exist for shorter Transatlantic flights (Boston is 6 hours).

I have to babe can aisle seat as I'm tall and claustrophobic. Would you prefer to sit in the middle?

Erm.....book an