Originally Posted by
sbm12
There are 2 outlets for 3 seats. As a group of 3 people you're supposed to be mature enough to figure out how to make that work for the group. Beyond that there are no rules like families only get one or the middle seat gets priority.
So many ways to easily solve the "problem" presented other than kvetch on FT.

I do wonder sometimes why United couldn't have made one of the outlet blocks on each 3-seat pair a double outlet. They managed to do this on the 747, with two outlets on each pillar in the middle 4 seats.