# On an airplane: window or aisle seat?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 8, 2004, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-an-airplane-window-or-aisle-seat/254179 "2004-07-08T22:17:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Furry\_Mongoose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@Furry\_Mongoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Furry_Mongoose)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2004, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-an-airplane-window-or-aisle-seat/254179/61 "2004-07-11T21:30:02Z")

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Window. Every time.

nuff said :rolleyes:

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**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2004, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-an-airplane-window-or-aisle-seat/254179/62 "2004-07-12T11:45:48Z")

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I mostly fly business class :D, and would prefer a window seat because I can sleep. Unfortunately, my fricking company books me an aisle seat even though I have specified window. When I am in the back with the goats and chickens then I want an aisle seat as I can’t sleep in those mini seats anyway, so don’t much mind people crawling over me.

One thing I do insist on is being as close to the deboarding exit as possible. It saves me having to elbow that little old lady back into her seat as she farts around wondering if this is her stop, or something, and makes me late for my connecting flight. ;).

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**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2004, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-an-airplane-window-or-aisle-seat/254179/63 "2004-07-14T20:08:04Z")

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> [@There Goes a Tenner](#):
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> Oh, I don’t actually recline the chair back- unless its a long flight at night and everyone’s asleep- I just sit up straight and don’t slouch in front of the window.

Ahhh, I see now. That is, indeed, quite courteous of you. 🙂

> [@DrScarlett](#):
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> I have no idea where it came from, but all I can think of while I’m flying is the physics keeping that tin tube in the air. Banking for a turn really gets me; I have visions of the plane rolling too far and losing it’s lift. :eek:

I’ve never had a fear of flying, but for the longest time I had this little ‘ritual’ where, just before takeoff, I would imagine the plane crashing immediately. It was nothing I imagined deliberately (say, as an attempt to ward off bad things), it never made me nervous, and I always imagined myself surviving – it would just pop into my head, every time. It stopped happening a year or two ago.

{shrug}

> [@Uzi](#):
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> It saves me having to elbow that little old lady back into her seat as she farts around wondering if this is her stop, or something, and makes me late for my connecting flight. ;).

Heh.

I can’t remember the last flight I took that arrived on time, and since I fly nonstop whenever possible I always hang around to let the folks with connecting flights get off the plane ahead of me. I seem to be the only one who ever does this, though, even when the flight attendants ask everyone to let those with connecting flights deplane first. It almost makes me wish that airlines would try to organize/prioritize the deplaning process, but I guess there’s already a big enough stampede danger…

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