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- The middle seat has long been maligned as the worst seat on a plane.
- A recent trip helped me realize there are actually benefits to the middle seat.
- Aisle and window seats aren't all they are cracked up to be, either.
Window or aisle?
The two seats might only be a few feet apart, but an ideological chasm exists between them. You fall into one of the two camps, and allegiances don't switch easily.
Seat selection is all the more important these days after an Alaska Airlines flight lost part of its fuselage mid-flight. (No serious injuries were reported, thanks largely to the two seats directly next to the blown-out window being empty.)