Originally Posted by
FlyingUnderTheRadar
Other than being more forward in the plane preferred seats are not any better seats than std. seats except in one case. As such, the money will not be well spent.
It is not uncommon that selecting only non preferred seats leaves you with nothing but scattered middles, while preferred seats would have 2 or 3 abreast available.
It does not matter that on an empty flight the seats you can chose are about the same, all that counts is the seats one can actually chose.