Originally Posted by
deniah
In European short haul business, one has no direct seatmates.
I wish US airlines offered something like that. I believe that one airline (United maybe?) that used to only put people in the middle seats next to their top tier elites if there were no other empty seats on the aircraft. That would be an awesome thing to go back to, even though load factors nowadays means you wouldn't get that middle seat very often.
Honestly from my end I'd take a domestic first seat with coach service way before I'd take a domestic coach seat with first service.