Originally Posted by
SPN Lifer (Post # 53)
Do opposing aisle seats on a single Passenger Name Record (PNR) seem safe these days in coach?
Originally Posted by
raehl311 (Post # 54)
No one has reported having aisle-aisle seat assignments changed.
Originally Posted by
SPN Lifer (Post # 63)
Is the aisle-aisle combination safer, in recent experience?
Originally Posted by
Kmxu (Post # 85)
Interesting! I have never heard this before.
Normally, I choose two aisle seats (C and D on B737). Therefore, UA algorithm won’t bother me.
Originally Posted by
Guate87 (Post # 93)
This has happened to my wife and me for years.
If we both have aisle, this doesn't happen as often but we are supposed to have the freedom to choose our own seats, whether window or aisle.
Originally Posted by
Guate87 (Post # 107)
I picked 21C and 21D on our fourth (and hopefully not cancelled) flight so that neither of us is put in a middle seat. We prefer aisle/window (A/C or D/F) but United seems to leave two aisles alone.
Originally Posted by
drowelf (Post # 116)
If I had booked a Window/Aisle combination on a single PNR and one of us got moved to a middle, I'd be a little pissed. But we don't book that way ourselves. We generally go exit row aisle/aisle across or one ahead of the other, depending on the plane configuration. That way we can still converse a bit on the flight and never have to worry about this issue. If we went aisle/window and someone did end up in the middle, we would have to talk across them.
I wonder if the aisle-aisle combination offers some degree of reassignment "immunity", or if such arrangements are less frequently modified simply because they are less frequently selected. I suspect the latter.
In the absence of any known United Air Lines policy discouraging aisle-window and aisle-aisle seat selection by MileagePlus Premier members, it would seem most likely the reassignments are merely an incidental consequence of equipment changes and information technology (IT) algorithms designed to keep travel companions together.