On an airplane, not all window seats have windows. One woman found out the hard way on a Delta Air Lines flight.
Woman Buys A Window Seat On Delta…With A Missing Window!
A woman took to reddit to complain about how her choice to purchase an assigned window seat on Delta ended up backfiring. She paid for an extra legroom seat not for the extra legroom (she’s only five feet tall), but to look out the window.
“I was excited to board the plane knowing my seat was [12A].
“My smile slowly faded as I approached my seat counting the passing rows. My disappointment was immeasurable and my day was ruined.”
Honey, I think you’ll survive. But I understand the disappointment indeed.
#sarcasm
How did that happen? As one reddit user explained, “Some aircraft have A/C ducts running from under the floor to over the ceiling, they sacrifice one such window to run said ductwork. Some like in your case will install a seat row next to an emergency exit, the door frame doesn’t allow for an additional window.”
How To Find Out if Your Window Seat Has A Window
SeatGuru is the perennial source for determining where to sit on a flight, but I find the website far less useful these days, with some seat maps quite out of date or inaccurate. Instead, my favorite site for seat maps is called aeroLOPA (LOPA signifying Layout of Passenger Accommodations).
It clearly reveals when windows are missing and I find it the most accurate online tool for properly understanding an aircraft layout.
Finally, some humor (also part of the the reddit discussion):
“In the event of an emergency, our whistleblowers can be used as a floatation device”
BOEING, an onomatopoeia: the noise the door makes as it pops open…
image: reddit
That phrase, “My disappointment was immeasurable and my day was ruined”, is a tongue and cheek hyperbolic meme. Not meant to be taken literally.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/my-disappointment-is-immeasurable-and-my-day-is-ruined
I’m finally old enough where I’ve entirely missed a meme. Thought I had a few years left before that happened. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
Allow me to be the first. A premium experience for the discerning traveler, for which they are willing to pay a premium price.
SeatGuru tells you the specific model of aircraft (without you having to look it up) for your flight. AeroLOPA does not. For example, Delta has different versions of the same aircraft type and you don’t know which you’ll be flying.
SeatGuru is out of date and many of its seat maps are wrong.
Seatguru hasn’t updated many of it’s layouts in a while…
Happens to me from time to time on United – Always avoid row 12
Also Matthew you shouldn’t giver her the “Honey, I think you’ll survive”. You’ve complained about far less on this blog
Please see: Ryanair Seat 11A LOL
“Outraged” when the woman was clearly memeing
At what point does shameless clickbaiting turn into actual fake news? Come on man
All that metal in the face coupled with the pink hair will undoubtedly come in handy at job interviews. It’s about time she(?) learns that life isn’t fair.
What’s unfair is she paid for a window and didn’t get one. The color of her hair is irrelevant and as far as you know she owns her own business. Maybe you should mind yours before posting derogatory remarks about things you know nothing about.
How many face tattoos do you have?
that aerolopa sight looks nice.
The first airline I looked at wasn’t there though. Aeromexico.
i like seatmaps dot com over seatguru.
my bad…I see it now.
blind for a moment.
Excuse me but I don’t blame her a bit. If I wanted a window seat- and there’s no window- please fix it or give me back my money. It shouldn’t even be a question. You should receive what you paid for.
I’ve had my seats reassigned when I wanted a window seat (my greatest joy in flying) and when it happens it truly sucks and I feel very ripped off.
Airline should be forced to make consumers aware of their seat is missing a window. They have the tech…. Seems misleading
No doubt the PTSD will haunt her for years.
“My disappointment was immeasurable and my day was ruined.” What a snowflake. Ask people at war zones or starving for food how their day is going. You did not buy the seat by the aisle nor the one in the middle. The seat you bought is called the other one.
Read the comments
You, of all people, complaining about others being a snowflake? Oh lordie…
It’s a line from a meme of a Youtuber who reviews fast food, you pinecone.
We should all be outraged at how outrageous the ego is on this woman
She’s not “outraged.” She’s just joking about how Murphy’s Law it is, and laughing at the irony. The phrase “my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined” is a reference to a viral fast-food reviewer lamenting the extreme drop in quality of of one of his favorite Popeye’s menu items (I’m sure any UA flyer can relate to those emotions), and that phrase is now sarcastically quoted by people when they encounter a mildly annoying but survivable situation.
Not hating (love the blog, this part is really more for the commenters than the article itself), but I sure would be upset if I was portrayed as a narcissistic, entitled millennial because my internet joke was taken out of context by people it wasn’t even targeted for. Be nice people.
A-1 Kurt. Thank you.
This is so stupid – doesn’t that passenger realize that on Boeing planes her window only appears after the plug falls out at cruising altitude?
Was the young woman over the top, sure but the seats should not be sold as a window seat if there isn’t a window.
What’s up with the “honey I think you’ll survive” ???
CLAUSTOPHOBIA; Some of us have a fear of dark and enclosed spaces.
How does she make it thru the metal detector with that mouth?
It has to detect the metal, not remove it.