Originally Posted by
dilbertsdaddy
It's better to have no seats at all than a bunch of middles assigned. If you have no seats the gate agents take care of those when they open the flight with a focus on groups. Right now you are off the radar because you are seated. Probably too late at this point to do anything other than swap with people if possible. If you have 4 aisles, it will be easy, if you have 4 middles you are SOL. And an Aruba flight is probably all groups.
Whoever assigned you the mixed seats did you no favor......
NO - Could not disagree more.
By the looks of it, the OP has no status.
No status + a full flight + no seat assignment = Spectacular Recipe for getting bumped off the flight.