Questions and Answers

I know that may airlines allow passengers to pay to keep the middle seat free when flying long haul in economy (NZ even has the SkyCouch), however I am not sure if any US airlines allow a similar thing or a way to do it? I know many people will say just fly Business but if two people are traveling it can be way cheaper to pay for a third coach seat than two business seats. Example ORD-FRA in C is ~$6000 but is ~1000 in Y so for three seats it would be $3000 vs $12,000 for business. And having three seats for two people in Y+ is much nicer than a window and middle.

I am know that if I bought a second ticket for myself it would be rejected as two matching customers and if I just bought a throwaway ticket they could give my seat free away at the last minute and I just threw away $1000. The only way I could maybe do it is by a Passenger of Size ticket for the second seat and hope the airline doesn’t say anything that I am not a passenger of aizr. Does anyone have any ideas

There are no guarantees but, fewer people will sit in a middle seat at the back of the plane (no Y+.) If you have more than 100k miles, you could book 1 seat with miles.

I think the airlines probably have their own policies around this. Delta requires calling in:

[URL]http://www.delta.com/content/www/en_US/traveling-with-us/special-travel-needs/require-extra-seat-space.html[/URL]
[URL]https://pro.delta.com/content/agency/us/en/products-and-services/special-services/extra-seat—personal-comfort-.html[/URL]

If you do a search you should be able to find the policies for UA and AA as well.