Aug 7th, 2009 at 1:00PM: We all hate the middle seat ... but how much? According to a survey commissioned by 3M, 56 percent of respondents would rather sit in traffic than a middle seat, with the same amount preferring a blind date (at least the getaway is easier). For 54 percent, a trip to the dentist is preferable. To avoid a middle seat, half said they'd take a later flight to avoid a middle seat, with 20 percent ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
middleseat posts
Middle seat: where else would you want to be?
Aug 7th, 2009 at 1:00PM: We all hate the middle seat ... but how much? According to a survey commissioned by 3M, 56 percent of respondents would rather sit in traffic than a middle seat, with the same amount preferring a blind date (at least the getaway is easier). For 54 percent, a trip to the dentist is preferable. To avoid a middle seat, half said they'd take a later flight to avoid a middle seat, with 20 percent ...Wall Street Journal's McCartney: Airlines have gotten "carried away" with fees
May 15th, 2009 at 10:00AM: Scott McCartney writes The Wall Street Journal's "Middle Seat" column and is the author of the new book "The Wall Street Journal Guide to Power Travel: How to Arrive with Your Dignity, Sanity, and Wallet Intact." With the travel season about to take off, I asked him for his thoughts on flying in the summer of 2009. Q: What should air travelers expect this summer? McCartney: I think this will ...Model's boyfriend puts the "bang" in Bangalore
Apr 6th, 2009 at 1:30PM: It always starts with a drunken model. Always. Cover girl Sarah Hannon was beyond furious when awaking to find her boyfriend, Daniel Melia, engaged in a "sex act" with the woman next to him. It sounds like he had a middle seat and liked it! Hannon fell asleep on a nine-hour flight from Bangalore to London, as anyone would hope to do on such a long flight. Oh, and having bent elbows with boyfriend ...Galley Gossip: A question about traveling with kids and scoring an extra seat
Nov 21st, 2008 at 11:30AM:
Dear Heather,
I've written to you before and now I have another question. So I've told you that we're traveling w/ our one-year old next month. No car seat, etc. Are there any sneaky ways to insure that we could get an 'empty' seat for her???? I think currently we have it booked so my husband gets the window seat and I get the aisle. We thought that might work as nobody would want to sit in the ...Galley Gossip: A question about moving from coach to first class when there are open seats
Nov 13th, 2008 at 10:30AM: Dear Heather,
I love your blog, I always wanted to be a flight attendant but was told by many I'm probably too short so now I'm going for an Air Traffic Controller job. But I do have a question for you. On the past 4 flights I was on I was stuck in the middle seat because no window seats were available and I can't sit in the aisle. But I was stuck in between to large passengers that had to keep ...Galley Gossip: Middle Seat Etiquette
Oct 17th, 2008 at 8:30AM: Flying back from Honolulu, I found myself crammed in a middle seat. Now I'm not a big person, just a normal sized person, and yet there I sat with my elbows held tight against my side, my hands resting in my lap, as the broken seat in front of me reclined much farther back than it should have. Oh yeah, I had a woman's head an inch from my chest. Good thing I didn't need anything out of my ...
