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* Take a window seat for very short flights or very long flights. Window seats have more shoulder room, less hassle from other passengers, and a window. The only downside is bladder management, but on short flights you can stick it out and on long ones you can get up when your fellow passengers do. | * Take a window seat for very short flights or very long flights. Window seats have more shoulder room, less hassle from other passengers, and a window. The only downside is bladder management, but on short flights you can stick it out and on long ones you can get up when your fellow passengers do. | ||
* ''Every'' plane has some seats that suck. No recline, noisy, cold, lack of floor storage or slightly narrower than most, [http://www.seatguru.com SeatGuru] will tell you what to avoid. It'll also tell you which seats are great (extra legroom, etc) that you should take given half a chance. Usually, exit-row seats have extra legroom (good for tall people), and the last row and the row in front of the exit row do not recline (bad in general). The first row in a section (where you have a bulkhead in front of you instead of another seat) does not have under-seat storage, so everything must go in overhead bins, but it does have more legroom. | * ''Every'' plane has some seats that suck. No recline, noisy, cold, lack of floor storage or slightly narrower than most, [http://www.seatguru.com SeatGuru] will tell you what to avoid. It'll also tell you which seats are great (extra legroom, etc) that you should take given half a chance. Usually, exit-row seats have extra legroom (good for tall people), and the last row and the row in front of the exit row do not recline (bad in general). The first row in a section (where you have a bulkhead in front of you instead of another seat) typically does not have under-seat storage, so everything must go in overhead bins, but it typically does have more legroom. (Seatguru will tell you whether or not this is the case on a particular plane.) | ||
* ''The Middle Seat Gambit'' - If you’re travelling with someone else, check in online together and look for an empty 3-person row. Take the aisle and window. Middle seats fill up last, there’s a decent chance the seat stays empty. If so, you have a lot more space to dump things during the flight, and more legroom since you can use that space instead of putting things under the seat in front of you. | * ''The Middle Seat Gambit'' - If you’re travelling with someone else, check in online together and look for an empty 3-person row. Take the aisle and window. Middle seats fill up last, there’s a decent chance the seat stays empty. If so, you have a lot more space to dump things during the flight, and more legroom since you can use that space instead of putting things under the seat in front of you. | ||
* If you’re traveling alone, you can still use the middle seat gambit by checking in online and looking at the seat map for someone acting as a de facto accomplice. | * If you’re traveling alone, you can still use the middle seat gambit by checking in online and looking at the seat map for someone acting as a de facto accomplice. | ||