I thought I read a seat selection strategy here, but now I cannot find it. The strategy was that when selecting seats for a couple, one should take the window and the second the aisle, leaving the center seat vacant. If the flight should be full and someone is assigned to the center seat, the person in the aisle seat can just shift to the center seat. I cannot imagine anyone being unhappy to switch from the center seat to the aisle seat (unless people are afraid to sit in an aisle do to things falling on their heads, but that is another thread). If the flight is not full an open center seat will discourage more people from selecting the seat than will an open aisle seat. The goal, of course, is to leave the center seat empty.

I recently did all of our seat selections using this strategy and my husband is very unhappy with me because he thinks it is duplicitous or something. I am not sure why. He will not have to move because he always has the window seat.

Is this a breach of flying etiquette? I guess I can try to go back and change our seat selections.