Originally Posted by
ksandness
I was a window person until the airlines began scrunching the seats together in the 1990s. Then I became an aisle person.
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Same here, at least in Y.
I regularly fly PHX-SLC-SEA - that's one exception. I not only want window seats, I'm picky about which side I sit on. I never get tired of seeing Mt. Rainier (and, to a lesser extend, the Grand Canyon).
Otherwise, I start to get claustrophobic, particularly if there's a full-size person in the middle or aisle seat.
In a darkened cabin, it is pretty startling when someone raises the window shade, but one of my most memorable flights was a late departure from NRT. I'd gotten upgraded, meal service was on. We flew through a lightning storm, huge solid seeming clouds like slot canyons with lightning flashes. Simply spell-binding.
It is a nuisance when someone turns on the overhead reading lamp (deliberately or inadvertently) or the personal IFE and then goes to sleep for hours.
That can be pretty annoying.