Isn’t unchecked capitalism just delightful?
Then a payment method doesn’t need to have a payment.
“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.
Just don’t charge extra
Exactly. That’s literally the salient point.
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
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.
Southwest was the only airline to do non-assigned seating and they just gave that up.
I’ve never understood that. The plane leaves at the same time for everyone. Why hurry up to wait?
Overhead storage, usually. The earlier people get their pick of overhead storage. Later people either get a worse spot for their carry-on or the plane fills up and they have to check it.
Absolutely this. The gate check is the main concern. As a business traveler, I’m usually running on a tight schedule, and dealing with a checked bag is an extra 30 minutes minimum in my day. And if they lose my carry-on, I’m kinda fucked.
The overhead storage location can also be a hassle – if I have a tight connection at ATL, I don’t want to play leap frog for 20 minutes to get to my bag if the last open bin is in row 35 and I’m up in 15.
So yeah, I’m going to make sure I get to the head of my boarding group.
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.
Isle, center (left), center(middle),center,(right), wall seat (window), wall seat (no window)
