Where to sit: Window or Aisle?
So where would you sit in an airplane? Do you prefer the window side or the aisle side? Do you want to stay in front or at the back? Do you hate smokers? Do you hate the toilet smell even if it smells clean? What is your “intelligent choice? Let’s help you out!
Window vs. Aisle
Many passengers prefer window seats – and this has been proven by a lot of airline surveys formal or otherwise! Do you? Then you’re normal! But the comfort and convenience are sometimes jeopardized due to that choice. Can you believe that? Let’s see.
Window seats are nice so you can see the outside as the plane starts taxiing out of the airport and starts rolling by the runway. During take off and landing, you can also see the bird’s-eye view of the world beneath. Isn’t it nice to see Metro Manila at dawn or dusk with all the dominantly yellow lights? Isn’t it nice to be by the window as your airplane approaches the usually cloudy runway of Loakan Airport and you have this little bit of fright in your knees hehe? Isn’t it also nice looking down at how high you still are from the city of Cagayan De Oro then all of a sudden you hear-and-feel the thud that you have already landed on earth? Yes, its nice to be by the window! But…
Window seats are not nice if you are one who keeps going to the “john” – so older folks, beware! Why would it be so? Because, for you to be able to get off your seat and head for the “CR”, you’ll have to struggle with the person or persons beside you so you can get out to the aisle wand walk. Now consider if you were on an early morning flight and that stranger beside you is happily snoring his way off. You’ll have to wake him and thus you disturb him. Add to that… the seats in front of you are reclined (that means towards you) each occupant is also sleeping. You’ll be creating an unnecessary commotion and those people all around you will probably be cursing you at the back of their minds. When you come back from that lavatory, it will be another struggle so you can reach you seat by the window hehe!
If you are the businessman in a mad rush for your next appointment, the window seat is not also friendly! Why so? Because on exit, you’ll naturally have to wait it out letting those people beside and by the aisle move first before you can head to the exit. Now what if that person on the aisle was a sleepy laggard who wants to wait for all passengers to have disembarked before he does? You are trapped hehe – unless you clamber upon him!
“But I will choose a window-seat that is alone”. My answer: “Shut-up, there is none! If you see an aircraft with a lone seat by the window, it is probably too small there is no lavatory”! That is not our topic and those planes are too few in these islands!
So am I saying the aisle seat is better? Hardly!
The aisle seat is good if you’re a lanky 6-footer like me who cannot have that seat by the door. At least in an aisle seat you can stretch one leg (sometimes even both) out unto the aisle for better comfort. Just beware that the crews or some passengers going to the lavatories could be passing and may accidentally step on you hehe! If you were on an aisle seat, the moment you are allowed to do so, you can start rushing to the exits and out of the plane.
But, if you were on an aisle seat and that passenger seated by the window keeps going out to visit the lavatory, may all the angels in heaven and on earth bless you hehe. He’s such a nuisance, right? As if to add salt to injury, during mid-flight, he asks you to reach for his bag from the overhead bin so he can get his camera. The nerve! And oh how bad you did not take that left side window seat on your early morning flight to Cebu! Somewhere during the flight Mayon Volcano was a nice little shadow with yellowish sunrise glow behind it!
So, window or aisle?! My answer: “Business Class” hehehe!
Now seriously, if you are thinking of where to seat comfortably, consider all of the above and pick what would be the most bearable inconvenience for you. Then tell your check-in agent you want that kind of seat!
Enjoy your flight!
Window vs. Aisle
Many passengers prefer window seats – and this has been proven by a lot of airline surveys formal or otherwise! Do you? Then you’re normal! But the comfort and convenience are sometimes jeopardized due to that choice. Can you believe that? Let’s see.
Window seats are nice so you can see the outside as the plane starts taxiing out of the airport and starts rolling by the runway. During take off and landing, you can also see the bird’s-eye view of the world beneath. Isn’t it nice to see Metro Manila at dawn or dusk with all the dominantly yellow lights? Isn’t it nice to be by the window as your airplane approaches the usually cloudy runway of Loakan Airport and you have this little bit of fright in your knees hehe? Isn’t it also nice looking down at how high you still are from the city of Cagayan De Oro then all of a sudden you hear-and-feel the thud that you have already landed on earth? Yes, its nice to be by the window! But…
Window seats are not nice if you are one who keeps going to the “john” – so older folks, beware! Why would it be so? Because, for you to be able to get off your seat and head for the “CR”, you’ll have to struggle with the person or persons beside you so you can get out to the aisle wand walk. Now consider if you were on an early morning flight and that stranger beside you is happily snoring his way off. You’ll have to wake him and thus you disturb him. Add to that… the seats in front of you are reclined (that means towards you) each occupant is also sleeping. You’ll be creating an unnecessary commotion and those people all around you will probably be cursing you at the back of their minds. When you come back from that lavatory, it will be another struggle so you can reach you seat by the window hehe!
If you are the businessman in a mad rush for your next appointment, the window seat is not also friendly! Why so? Because on exit, you’ll naturally have to wait it out letting those people beside and by the aisle move first before you can head to the exit. Now what if that person on the aisle was a sleepy laggard who wants to wait for all passengers to have disembarked before he does? You are trapped hehe – unless you clamber upon him!
“But I will choose a window-seat that is alone”. My answer: “Shut-up, there is none! If you see an aircraft with a lone seat by the window, it is probably too small there is no lavatory”! That is not our topic and those planes are too few in these islands!
So am I saying the aisle seat is better? Hardly!
The aisle seat is good if you’re a lanky 6-footer like me who cannot have that seat by the door. At least in an aisle seat you can stretch one leg (sometimes even both) out unto the aisle for better comfort. Just beware that the crews or some passengers going to the lavatories could be passing and may accidentally step on you hehe! If you were on an aisle seat, the moment you are allowed to do so, you can start rushing to the exits and out of the plane.
But, if you were on an aisle seat and that passenger seated by the window keeps going out to visit the lavatory, may all the angels in heaven and on earth bless you hehe. He’s such a nuisance, right? As if to add salt to injury, during mid-flight, he asks you to reach for his bag from the overhead bin so he can get his camera. The nerve! And oh how bad you did not take that left side window seat on your early morning flight to Cebu! Somewhere during the flight Mayon Volcano was a nice little shadow with yellowish sunrise glow behind it!
So, window or aisle?! My answer: “Business Class” hehehe!
Now seriously, if you are thinking of where to seat comfortably, consider all of the above and pick what would be the most bearable inconvenience for you. Then tell your check-in agent you want that kind of seat!
Enjoy your flight!
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