Seat 11A: The windowless inside joke at 30,000 feet
What looks like a prime spot on airplane seating maps is prompting disappointment.
From The Times
April 18, 2026

As Chris Young boarded a recent flight from Seattle to Detroit, he was checking seat numbers and already thinking about the view.

Then he saw it.

“Oh no,” he recalled. “There’s the seat that has no window.”

An airplane seat against the wall of a plane. Behind it is a window, and light from the window in front is visible as well. But this seat has no window to itself.

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