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Old Jul 19, 2007 | 3:37 am
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moeve
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It did too on my family vacation flight from EWR to IAD. We only had an hour and 15 min to connect flight flight CO 51 from FRA to IAD via EWR. We were on the run!! The family had been split up in FRA already but I figured it wouldn't kill me since I had an aisle seat. When we got to the gate the aircraft had already been loaded and was waiting for the last pax namely thoughs from the european flights.

The flight was full to the last seat since the aircraft from Norway had missed the earlier conncetion there was a larger group of elderly norwegians onboard filling up the seats. Anyway the two ladies in the middle row sitting next to me asked if I would trade with their friend so that they could sit together.... my mistake I gave up my aisle seat for a middle one. It didn't think it would kill me just for a few hours but was I WRONG!!

Since I never sit in a middle seat I just wasn't expecting it... it was hot inside, I was tired from an already long transat flight and due to bad weather it was a little bumpy and for the first time in my life I actually felt sick up there. Boy was I glad to be on the ground in IAD!!

I kept telling myself I was making a little old lady happy by letting her sit with her friends but after this experience I might think twice about moving to a middle seat......
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