Imagine a Middle Seat You’d Pay For

I take the middle seat every time on Southwest (if you aren’t familiar, they don’t have assigned seating). The first ten or so rows of the middle seat always have vacancies deep into the B and even C boarding groups. I think the people who pay for guaranteed early boarding groups are suckers.

Being in the front of the plane is the difference between being stuck in the metal tube for 90 minutes instead of 95 or 100 minutes. The seat is the same size (or as this article points out, it’s sometimes bigger).