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In reply to the discussion: Airplane Etiquette [View all]customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)I get a window seat, and she gets an aisle seat, we don't talk to each other during boarding. That way, someone won't ask her to move over and take the aisle seat she needs for her bad knee.
We are both larger people, and I have seen a passenger headed for the middle seat who has gone back and told the flight attendant that he/she cannot possibly sit between those two fat people. Once, we had an Asian woman, who meekly sat between us, who was rescued by a flight attendant and reassigned a different seat.
Sometimes, the only vacant seat on the plane is the one between us. But, it doesn't always work that way, once we had a rather odoriferous Turkish man between us (I got a quick glimpse at the cover of his passport), and it was miserable for all three of us.