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Window seat, or aisle?

XIII said:
I'll draw you the diagram of where is best to sit, and where is not. 😛
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Hehe.

I agree with the best seat position in terms of comfort — bulkhead, if you can get 'em. They're often reserved for those with medical problems according to my ex-cabin crew sister.
 
These are english jokes so they may not translate so well.....

I was checking into a flight the other day and the attendant said "Window, Seat or aisle?", "Or you'll what?" I replied.

I was checking into a flight the other day and the attendant said "Window, Seat or aisle?", "I'll have a seat please" I replied.

Ha Ha
 
I like the window; partly for the view and partly since I like the bit at the side to lean things on, stuff jackets down etc. Ideally though I like the planes with just two seats on the aisles (United used to do this) since I usually fly with someone else and it's the ideal situation.

The other good thing about the window is that there's only one person behind you to pull themselves up and along using the back of your seat. If you're in the aisle seat, you can end up with all 3 of the folks behind dragging themselves in and out. I wish they'd add that to the preflight briefing along with the don't smoke messages "Please use your armrests and not the seat in front of you"
 
Window.

But I'd settle for anything that had more room. I can't wait to be in a position to only fly first or business class.

I once had to travel from Maui to San Francisco, bad enough that I had to leave, I took a window seat on a full flight with my wife next to me in the middle and another passenger on the aisle.

Nightmare flight as the seat of the passenger in front of me was broken and it was leaning back further than it should actually resting on my knee for most of the flight. The arsehole in it even reclined making it worse still and wouldn't move back upright when I and the cabin crew asked him (this was late 90's if he wouldn't do it now they'd probably tazer and sedate him).

To top it all the women in the aisle seat fell asleep and her baby on her lap also fell asleep and drifted across my wife's knee too.

God I hate travelling cattle-class.
 
I prefer the aisle seat as well. Window seats are overrated. I tend to look out the window for a little bit but as soon as you up in the air and over the clouds who cares.
 
OnceUGoMac said:
You people are crazy. Aisle seat all the way. Legroom and easy access to the john. The only advantage of the window seat is that you don't have to move when someone else goes to the john.
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totally agree. It does depend on configuration and of course what class you are in. But for economy, what you say is almost always right.
 
Aisle is the way to go; no question!

I'm not even tall (5'8") and I still appreciate the extra bit of leg room. And I hate having to use the bathroom but not wanting to disturb the others in my row (especially if they are sleeping). I don't mind getting up for them - I can't sleep on planes so I'm always awake anyway...
 
Applespider said:
The other good thing about the window is that there's only one person behind you to pull themselves up and along using the back of your seat. If you're in the aisle seat, you can end up with all 3 of the folks behind dragging themselves in and out. I wish they'd add that to the preflight briefing along with the don't smoke messages "Please use your armrests and not the seat in front of you"
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That's a big pet peeve of mine as well. You know someone is sitting there, how would you like it if I did it to you?!?!? (not you, Applespider...them! 😉 )
 
I usually fly with Southwest, which does not have assigned seating. If I'm one of the first people on the plane I will take an aisle seat because other people will then sit in other rows. If the flight isn't full, I end up with three seats to myself. 🙂
 
Window seat for me. I hardly if ever need to go to the bathroom even on transcontinental flights and I get all giddy looking out the window at all the clouds, the blue sky, and the wing catching on fire.


Here's to the Crazy Ones ​
 
AA 767's - 10A or 10E - window without seat in front for leg room or,
Aisle Exit Row or any Upgrade.
Bulk Heads are a hassle now with putting carry-ons up, imo.
 
Oryan said:
I usually fly with Southwest, which does not have assigned seating. If I'm one of the first people on the plane I will take an aisle seat because other people will then sit in other rows. If the flight isn't full, I end up with three seats to myself. 🙂
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It's the simple cunning behind your MO that I'm loving.🙂
 
Aisle all the way. I'm slightly claustrophobic, and being stuck against the window is almost painful to me; in fact, I've come close to panicking in a plane before because of it. I'll make an exception for intercontinental business class or first class flights since there's so much room anyway.

Seatguru.com, as previously mentioned, is a great site for checking out seats, especially on planes you don't fly often.
 
Lyle said:
Definitely aisle seat. I've seen what it looks like out the window.
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You mon amie, have lost the wonderment of air travel. 🙁 I shall cry for you before I go to bed tonight.


Here's to the Crazy Ones ​
 
Lacero said:
You mon amie, have lost the wonderment of air travel. 🙁 I shall cry for you before I go to bed tonight.
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I didn't mean to sound quite that jaded. 😉

We have been doing a lot more flying the last five years, and so I guess the novelty has long-since worn off. Most of those trips have been back and forth between Huntsville and New York (LaGuardia) and so there aren't too many surprises anymore. I promise to at least consider a window seat if we ever fly to some new destination one of these days. 😀
 
I usually take the window seat, its easier to sleep in the window seat in my opinion. I wish I could fly first class, I hate being cramped in coach, oh well, poor me🙂
 
Lacero said:
Window seat for me. I hardly if ever need to go to the bathroom even on transcontinental flights and I get all giddy looking out the window at all the clouds, the blue sky, and the wing catching on fire.
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Thanks for that.
I may cry myself to sleep every night until I go to Vienna.
And then flip out on the plane, have to be sedated, and taken off.
Of course, the flight attendants WON'T take my violin or viola with me, so I will be out $2000 and a viola/violin.

But.... Window for me.. I like to lean on the side and sleep. Also, I like to look out the window.
I have no issues with inconveniencing people. If I need to get out I just crawl over them. they'd be doing the same to me if our seats were switched. *shrug*
 
Oh, this is a HUGE rant for me. 🙂

While I'm not a small person, I'm not overly large (6'3" 215lbs) and physically do not fit in most coach seats. My shoulders are wider than the seats and the headrests stop in the middle of my neck. I usually much prefer aisle seats, but do get irritated by constantly getting smacked by the stewardesses with the drink carts. On the rare occassion that I'm in a window seat, I'm too tall to see out the windows. 😡

What's worse than this though, is the people that bring screaming kids onto the plane. Admittedly, I have no children of my own and I do not blame the kids for being obnoxious -- it's the parents. Your co-passengers and stewardesses are not there to babysit your little monster. When I was a kid, if we misbehaved in public, it resulted in one warning and then a smack to the back of the head. Solved the problem quick.

Ok, I'm done complaining now.
 
katie ta achoo said:
...Window for me.. I like to lean on the side and sleep....
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I now have a mental image of Katie's face pressed up against the glass drooling in her sleep as the plane pulls up to the stand in Austria.

SharksFan22 said:
...What's worse than this though, is the people that bring screaming kids onto the plane... ...I do not blame the kids for being obnoxious -- it's the parents... ...When I was a kid, if we misbehaved in public, it resulted in one warning and then a smack to the back of the head. Solved the problem quick....
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There's a great Bill Hicks routine where he's going on about kids on airplanes where a kid is playing with the emergency exit and gets sucked out "Gee, your right. The smaller they get the cuter they are."
 
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