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donotblink Mar 19, 2019 10:14 am
Originally Posted by joeyE (Post 30905375)


Sorry to nitpick, but even if you don’t pay in advance to select a seat, you can still rest assured you’ll have a seat on that plane by the time it boards, yes? Are you genuinely worried about getting bumped?
I interpreted that the OP didn’t want to get stuck in a middle seat.

Whiskey_bravo Mar 19, 2019 12:44 pm
Originally Posted by donotblink (Post 30905421)


I interpreted that the OP didn’t want to get stuck in a middle seat.
Then that would be a reason to no do random assignment basic economy.

donotblink Mar 19, 2019 12:51 pm
Originally Posted by Whiskey_bravo (Post 30905937)
Then that would be a reason to no do random assignment basic economy.
Statistically speaking, the OP has an unweighted 6̅6̅.̅6̅6̅% chance of not getting a middle seat. However, I would bet that the weighted likelihood is actually substantially lower due to other non basic economy passengers selecting aisle and window seats.


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