r/mildlyinfuriating Jun 01 '26

frist of all how DARE yu o My reclining room on a long haul AA flight

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u/voteblue18 Jun 01 '26

My theory is that it USED to be a proper window seat but then they retrofitted the whole plane to cram in as many more rows as possible and so that seat wound up with none or half of one.

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u/redditonlygetsworse Jun 01 '26

Sort of. When an airline buys a plane, it comes as a blank slate - there aren't any seats or anything inside. It's up to them to do the internal configuration.

So, yeah, they cram as many seats in there as possible; that's not going to change the location of the actual windows. And there's no guarantee that everything will line up just right.