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Stuck in the middle with you?
Most flyers take pains to avoid sitting in the center — but one first-class passenger on United Airlines relayed a baffling case where a fellow flyer seemed set on a dreaded middle seat.
“Why would someone book 2E?” the incredulous plane passenger wrote in a Reddit post detailing the odd choice, which the Redditor noticed while selecting seats at the front of the aircraft online.
“What am I missing?” they added. “Is it just someone’s lucky seat number?”
Included was a photo of the seating chart that showed the said selected — even though every other seat in their row appeared available.
Reddit commenters had their own theories for the traveler’s seemingly self-flagellating seating choice.
Given that all window seats had been taken, many suspected the passenger had chosen the spot on purpose so they wouldn’t be disturbed by people getting up.
“They want to sleep and not have anyone climb over them to get out,” theorized one/
“I’ve done this if I know I’m going to sleep the entire flight, from the time I sit until the final ding goes off to deboard,” posited another. “No reason to make someone step over me every time they need to get up.”
“Maybe they want a buffer between them and the aisle,” suggested a third. “It seems like some flight attendants stomp.”
However, others surmised that the seat had been booked by a third party.
“This is what happens when you piss off the admin handling your travel,” one amused Redditor quipped.
Another claimed that the flyer “randomly assigned” the seat after their upgrade cleared but hadn’t seen it yet and therefore hadn’t switched.
Some suggested that it was a “contracted seat” saved for jobs like the military.
A recent survey by Upgraded Points revealed that the most desirable seats in the sky are 1A, 7F and 7A — all window seats with extra legroom toward the front of the plane.
Of the 3,142 US travelers surveyed, 66.6% of respondents preferred a window seat, 31.7% preferred an aisle seat, while just 1.7% chose the middle seat.
Interestingly, many experts agree that the middle is the safest seat in the event of an emergency.
