How To Avoid Booking A Windowless Window Seat, Which Shouldn’t Exist But Do

How To Avoid Booking A Windowless Window Seat, Which Shouldn't Exist But Do

I’ve written before about the superiority of the window seat which even science acknowledges, and why absolutely no-one in their right mind would ever choose the middle seat. But what we haven’t discussed is the dark, dark hole that is the windowless window seat on planes.

How is this possible, you ask? Surely window seats without actual windows can’t truly exist, otherwise you’ve just given up free access to the isle and come to terms with the fact that you’ll annoy the neighbours every time you need to pee, all without the reward of glorious aerial views.

According to Escape, it’s all about the air con and its flow in your particular plane. Air conditioning ducting takes over a few spaces in the cabin where windows would normally be, and it just depends on the cabin arrangement whether that lines up with a seat or not.

For example, let’s take the Qantas’ Boeing 747-400. It has two layout versions, the good one on which every row of seats has a window, and the bad one in which seat 38A and 38K are windowless window seats.

I haven’t yet dealt with this problem, but frankly I’d be pretty peeved and I doubt I’d be the only one. How am I meant to humble brag about my vacay from the plane if I can’t see anything? I’m a serial #windowseat picture taker and I’m not even sorry about it.

Good news is TripAdvisor created SeatGuru so you can plug in your aircraft and find out which seats if any are going to be joyless and blocked from the outside world.

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