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Old Oct 20, 2010 | 5:00 pm
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Originally Posted by kennycrudup

- Ignoring perfectly good seats. This one really confuses me. I'm not talking about "back-rows-middle-seat eenie-meenie-miney-moe", either- I've seen people who want a window ask two people in row SEVEN if they could get up to give them the window, when there's other windows available on absolutely empty rows, including the one RIGHT BEHIND THEM. Go figure- and it'd not JRP's hott seatmate thing (most times) either.

What am I missing?
If it's going to be a completely full flight (no empty middles anyway), then the known quantity of the row 7 seatmates may be preferable to the unknown of who will join you in the empty row 8. If the middle seat pax is relatively slender, for example...
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