How to get more room in coach...
No one likes to be squished in coach, even when your squished next to someone you know, but especially next to a stranger. So here’s a trick that I do when booking my tickets to increase the probability that no one will be sitting next to me.
Traveling with 2: When traveling with a friend or spouse always book your tickets apart. Always book (in the same row) the isle and window seat of a row where all three seats are open. So that after you book your seats the middle seat is open. Single middle seats are the last to be filled on a plane (cause who would want to sit between two strangers). Therefore, you have a greater chance of having the whole row for the two of you. What happens if the seat gets filled? If you would rather not sit next to a stranger the whole flight offer the middle seater the isle or window, scoot over to sit next to your traveling partner and watch the smile on a strangers face who just realized its his lucky day. I haven’t kept track of how often this has worked for me, but it’s always worth the try. It did work on our flight from San Francisco to Boston.
Traveling Alone: When booking a ticket for just you look for a row where either the isle or window is already taken and select the opposite. For example below shows a flight where the window in Row 21 is taken, therefore, you would select the isle seat in that row, leaving the middle seat open. Again the same concept as above applies in that the middle seat will be the last to be filled so you have a chance if the flight is not full to have an open seat between you. If it gets filled, then you’ll have to enjoy the isle or window sitting next to a stranger, but you would have had to anyway, at least this way you have a chance.
Traveling with 2: When traveling with a friend or spouse always book your tickets apart. Always book (in the same row) the isle and window seat of a row where all three seats are open. So that after you book your seats the middle seat is open. Single middle seats are the last to be filled on a plane (cause who would want to sit between two strangers). Therefore, you have a greater chance of having the whole row for the two of you. What happens if the seat gets filled? If you would rather not sit next to a stranger the whole flight offer the middle seater the isle or window, scoot over to sit next to your traveling partner and watch the smile on a strangers face who just realized its his lucky day. I haven’t kept track of how often this has worked for me, but it’s always worth the try. It did work on our flight from San Francisco to Boston.
Traveling Alone: When booking a ticket for just you look for a row where either the isle or window is already taken and select the opposite. For example below shows a flight where the window in Row 21 is taken, therefore, you would select the isle seat in that row, leaving the middle seat open. Again the same concept as above applies in that the middle seat will be the last to be filled so you have a chance if the flight is not full to have an open seat between you. If it gets filled, then you’ll have to enjoy the isle or window sitting next to a stranger, but you would have had to anyway, at least this way you have a chance.
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