Originally Posted by jedison
A similar strategy is to book aisle and window when traveling with somebody else. If the middle seat happens to get filled, I've never had a problem swapping for the aisle/window.
That's what my husband and I do too. However, there was one time when the person in our middle turned out to be travelling with his wife. He wanted to trade the window (that I offered him) with a much taller and larger man sitting in the middle next to his wife. I was not too happy...