Originally Posted by blueheronNC

Just wondering whether anyone here has any personal experiences getting any mileage out of flirting with the person next to them. You'd think that with 3x3 seating and middle seats, you'd often end up with a solo traveler next to you, a subset of which would fit a certain demographic of interest. Notwithstanding those statistics, I never had such luck. On the 50 crosscountry flight segments I've been on since becoming elite, I've had to sit next to a male on 49 of them. ...

Is it just by chance that I sit next to males all the time, or are there statistics suggesting that airline travelers (or elite airline travelers) skew male?