Airplane Window Seats - An Update

News Flash – TEN years ago, I posted a complaint about flying in a window seat with no window. Little did I know my seven readers got a glimpse into the future. Recently, the Washington Post reported that a class action lawsuit has been filed against two airlines for charging extra for window seats when the seats have no windows.   

Seat 15A or The Closet with No View (21 August 2015)

Silly me. When Boeing designed and built their planes, they added windows with the reasonable notion that they would line up with the rows of seating. However, the carriers have taken that basic plane body and cram-squeezed as many seats into that space as humanly tolerable. Of course, seats no longer align with windows. Get used to it. The airlines’ response to the recent challenge is to identify certain places where ductwork and electrical conduits are located. Please, child.

Older flyers can remember when there were two seats on either side of the aisle. Then it became three and two. Now, only the puddle-jumper, short-haul planes have fewer than six seats in every row.

I imagine it would be easier to avoid this litigation by simply knowing the seating plans in each plane and X-out those seats that no longer line up with a window, then stop charging extra for the insult. How hard would that be? Certainly, it is less costly than paying lawyers to defend your deception. Apparently, other airlines do that.

We’ll see where this goes. In the meantime, stay with Images and More for a head start on what should make you nuts.