Originally Posted by
Collierkr
Don’t blame SQ for this at all. I have heard of some singles picking these idle seats on purpose hoping that 1] they will strike up an interesting conversation or 2] they luckily end up between two people traveling together who will relent and give one of their aisles to this poor chap.
Except that there are about 12 aisles already available--many with the middle seat occupied and many without. If it's a poor chap, it's only because they didn't look at the rest of the seatmap.