I tend to use the bathroom a lot, so I definitely like having an aisle seat.
My personal experience is that frequent travelers tend to prefer an aisle seat. Easier to get up and down, stretch your leg out to beside the seat in front of you. Especially on long flights. There’s often not much to see out the window apart from takeoffs and landings.
It is, however, kind of neat to fly into Kathmandu and see the mountains above you.
Window, middle of plane–hate being jostled by people in the aisle, and I like seeing the wing.
Window, front, next to an attractive younger lady who doesn’t mind conversing about nothing in particular with an older man.
I almost always have my camera with me, and have taken some spectacular pictures from inside an airplane. Some of them were out of the window.
I prefer the aisle, so I can get up whenever I want (I don’t mind having to accommodate others).
And I prefer the front, since they’re the first to exit.
I know! I fly all the time, and I still love looking out the window. If I don’t get the window seat, and the guy who does is obviously going to leave the blind down and not watch, I’ll ask to swap every time. We’re flying! Look at the buildings, cars, fields, lakes, ocean! Awesome!
In coach (where I usually sit), I’d rather have an aisle seat toward the front of the plane. I have long legs, and like to be able to stretch them into the aisle during the flight; getting off the plane quickly after it lands is important too. Especially on a crowded flight… I was on a huge Airbus in July and it was crammed full - after touchdown, I was stuck in the back of the plane and got to feeling awfully claustrophobic.
After that flight though, I had my first experience flying first class. If I’m flying up there, I don’t care what seat I’m in. I want to only fly first class from now on. I’m not sure it’s worth the ridiculous difference in price, but it sure felt like it.
Don’t care which seat in the row, prefer the front of the plane so I have to wait for as few people getting their carry-ons down as possible. I generally fly Southwest and I’ll take the first seat I see. The only thing that bugs me, like some earlier posters, is people oozing over from the adjacent seats into mine.
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I should ask my BIL about this - he’s got Gold-Pressed Latinum with Emeralds and Rubies - level status from all the miles he travels. Knowing him “Inside the airplane” is his preference.
I just prefer the window as I hate having bev carts slammed into my shoulders, and 9 times out out 10, if someone wants to retrieve their bag from the overhead, it’s over my head, and they drop something on me.
Either window or aisle, but not in between two people, not in the central bunch if the plane has two aisles, and in any case please please please not next to someone whose bulk or elbows take three seats (one of the two times I’ve flown first class, I had such a neighbor… I would have been more comfortable on the floor).
I prefer front or middle and love the exit aisle (if my short legs feel cramped on a regular seat, what do basketball players feel like after a flight?), but not on those crappy easyjet planes where the doors aren’t well-insulated.
So proud of this site to see that I was not the only knucklehead that could not resist selecting that option!
So you prefer to sit toward the front of the plane too?
I am a knucklehead who likes window seats towards the front of the plane.
Window so I can lean my head against the wall and try to sleep, front so I can get the hell off asap. I hate flying.
Dude, I fly all the time. It’s part of my job description. I have the opportunity to stare out of windows at my leisure. Therefore the window has no allure for me. So given a choice, I choose a seat where if needs be I can affect my own safety. It’s somewhat of a default position given my otherwise indifferent stance on the subject.
My preference is window just in front of the wings, but I rarely get that. To keep my wife comfortable, I volunteer to take the middle seat. The last time I got a window seat was on a flight back home from Ireland, but the lights running above the windows stayed on the whole time and destroyed any chance I had of possibly sleeping. (I never can sleep on planes.)
I wonder if there has ever been any other poll with this many choices and this many voters but one serious choice remaining zero.
“Sandwiched” is a loaded word. Choosing it is akin to calling yourself an idiot.
I never thought that was George’s best work.
I know guys who enjoy being “sandwiched” in Thailand, but it’s a bit different meaning, hehehe.
In Thailand I thought guys liked to go for the manwich as well . . .
