Aisles Across
 

I have noticed a trend on a lot of flights now that people traveling together are sitting aisles across. Am I the only person who finds this rude or am I out of line?

Do you mean in a 3-3 layout, [ A-B-C [Aisle] D-E-F ], when a couple takes seats 19C and 19D?

Why is this rude? I think it's far better than when a couple picks a window and aisle seat and some poor soul gets stuck between them.

My wife and I do this all the time. In what way is it rude? Each of us is PM and entitled to choose whatever seats we want. We don't like aisle and middle, and aisle/window in a 3-across row places a stranger between us. Why should one of us have to take a middle seat because we're together? BTW, if it's two across we take aisle/window.

I see nothing wrong with this unless they are consrantly passing thing across or hindering the flow of traffic in any way. Also as long as they aren't screaming across......

I have booked seats this way before. Its also good if only one gets the upgrade.

Been there. On WN. A few years ago. Nobody after me was let on the plane. Last seat left was a middle seat between a fifty-something husband and wife. At first, they told me to find another seat and wouldn't move their coats. The FA explained to them there was no other seat but if they would like to sit next to each other, one could slide over. Instead, they kept their seats and had a fight the entire flight, as though I wasn't there. He doesn't treat her as a person, according to her, but from my vantage point, she didn't act like a person and didn't deserve being treated as one. As much as I wanted to tell her that, I kept my mouth shut for the two hour flight. At least I would never have to see her again after the flight. The poor guy was at least stuck with her through the divorce court proceeding, which he hopefully started.

I guess I find it rude because the only time I really notice is when they are both leaning into the aisle to talk or are talking far louder than need be to converse without leaning across the aisle.

We do this regularly. Why should we have to sit in a middle seat?

Yet another reason why I have never and plan to never fly WN.

On the other hand, that experience sounds like it might have been somewhat fun if you were in the right mood. I would have had fund with it, maybe. Good chance to practice as an arbitrator for them in their upcoming divorce proceedings. Or chance to act as a marriage counselor. Or Judge Judy. The list could go on and on.

1. Pax get to select what they want from available inventory. It's their business and none of any other pax' business.

2. If you're gonna be stuck in steerage, it's far better for both to have a more comfortable aisle seat and there's no reason for one person to be disadvantaged.

Yeah, because only certain airlines have crazy people flying them.

To clarify, I should refer to the lack of assigned seating on WN, as a reason why I will never fly WN. Lack of assigned seats seems to be the main cause of this guy ending up in the middle seat between two crazies. Maybe a First Class Cabin would prevent this guy's problem, too? Not too many middle seats in First.

Not really ... if the couple had booked these seats on any airline, hoping to have an empty middle seat, they would have had more "right" to the seats than on WN ... if all that's left on any airline is a middle seat, a middle seat is what you get.

GenevaFlyer

When my wife and I are on an aircraft with only 3/3 rows, we frequently sit aisle/aisle, or even one behind the other in the same aisle seat (on certain aircraft to avoid having the AVOD box under your seat. This way neither of us has a middle seat, and we can get up without disturbing anyone else. I can't imagine how this could be considered rude.

The comment about WN made me smile as I remembered when I used to fly them occasionally and you'd see two people traveling together who would put coats or laptops on the middle seat and studiously avoid eye contact with later-boarding passengers. You could practically see the thought bubble saying "Not here...not here" as each person walked by.

This is an excellent point -- my wife and I are both PM and if we've taken middle and aisle in a 3/3 config aircraft and only the person in the aisle seat gets the upgrade, then one of us (guess who) gets the double whammy of being stuck in the back alone AND in a middle seat. No thanks!

Is this a serious post? [Edited by Moderator.]

Do this all the time when travelling with sig. other and in the 3-3 layout especially on long flights - aisle access is important. [Edited by Moderator.]