Isn’t unchecked capitalism just delightful?
“The use of the word ‘window’ in reference to a particular seat cannot reasonably be interpreted as a promise that the seat will have an exterior window view,” the airline’s lawyers wrote.
If you are charging extra for this seat, it certainly can be interpreted this way.
For the sake of argument, what would you call a seat that was not next to the aisle? I’m not defending them but at the same time I’d understand window seat just means ‘against fuselage’, yet I agree this is a confusing term.
Just don’t charge extra and when customers pick a seat indicate the lack of a window. You’ll find a passenger who doesn’t care.
That’s a fair point!
Wall seat or outer seat, I would think.
It was only because of airlines’ decision to change seating layouts that made it out of alignment with the aircraft’s windows to maximize capacity, and since then they have been attempting to redefine the what a window seat is.
I’d call it bulkhead, but that term’s already used by seats in the front row of the section. Wall seating? Hullside?
Of all the horrible things capitalism does, this is the least concerning. Of course they’re going to categorize the one seat in the plane that doesn’t have a window but is on the window side of the plane as “window”. It’s more confusing to invent an extra class of seat for “window side but you’re all the way in the back behind all the windows”.
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I always thought of them as “outer seats”. Aisle, center/middle, and outer was always what I called them
Isle, center (left), center(middle),center,(right), wall seat (window), wall seat (no window)
Call it “priority seating”, let them board the plane early, and charge extra for it. Based on the kindergarten-level aggression in the boarding lines I think people would still be fighting over them even without a window.
A sad display. For a 2h flight. I prefer to hang back and enter the plane last.
Especially since no seat on the plane will be as roomy as the one in the waiting area.
Yeah, the isle seat is better anyway.
