Seating question for seasoned travelers!

[Nennie]

I have a non-Disney question for the seasoned travelers. DH and I are taking a trip to London in June, and I was looking at the available seats, and note that the plane is about 60% full at this point.

The seating is basically:

AB CDEF

As there are only 2 of us, I would normally just book seats A&B. Since it's an overnight flight, I was thinking of booking C&F with the hopes that no one would want D or E, which would leave us the whole row to spread out and get comfortable.

Then if someone books seat E, I would offer to swtich and give them seat C (aisle seat) so DH and I would still end up sitting together.

Has anyone ever booked a long flight this way? Is it rude for me to try and swindle a row all to ourselves? I'd love to hear what our experienced flyers think!

Thanks!

 

[safetymom]

Most flights are very full these days. The chances of those seats remaining empty are pretty slim.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Yes, especially in the configuration you describe. Sometimes a middle seat remains empty on three-across seating, but since many people travel in pairs, it's extremely likely that those two seats will fill.

 

[lost*in*cyberspace]

I agree - don't bother trying this, chances are excellent that the middle seats will be assigned. A flight to London in June will probably be packed. Go with the sure thing - seats A & B. Or do as my husband and I often do, choose aisle seats across from one another.

 

[Nennie]

Thanks so much for the advice. I will do the safe thing and book the AB seats!

Thanks again everyone!

 

[1000th happy haunt]

DH and I book aisle seats across from each other whenever possible (or if it's a Southwest flight, we pick aisle seats across from each other). That way neither of us is cramped in.

So in your case it would be booking B and C.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Hmmm... one thing you may want to try: Book seats C and E. Maybe nobody will sit between you, and you two (and the person in F) might have more room. If somebody does get seat D, since that and E are middle seats, the one of you in E can ask to switch with them.

 

[canwegosoon]

Don't play games get AB if you want to be by yourselves, and get BC if you both want to be on an isle...if there are tons of seats when you get close to your flying day...you have 2 choices-Change seats and hope noone gets in your isle with you or Take BC and hope that noone will be next to you. On a recent flight when there were about 10 open seats it seemed that most people shuffled around so they didn't have a "meat" seat...but noone took up an entire row.