Frontier Airlines will let you pay to keep the middle seat empty on your flight

[turbinetree]

Scottie Andrew, CNN • Published 5th May 2020

(CNN) — The middle seat on a plane is already an undesirable spot. Soon passengers on Frontier Airlines flights will be able to pay extra to keep the middle seat of their row empty.

The airline is to offer a "More Room" seating option to guarantee the middle seat stays unoccupied during flights. It allows passengers a modicum of social distance from other people in a situation where it's not possible to keep six feet apart.

Frontier's seating option will be offered on flights departing May 8 through August 31, with 18 "More Room" seats available on each flight, though there are anywhere from 26 to 41 rows on the carrier's aircraft. Tickets start at $39 per passenger.

Frontier joins a crop of other national airlines that offer similar accommodations: Delta Air Lines began blocking off middle seats in April, with no charge to passengers. American Airlines said it will leave 50% of middle seats in the main cabin empty and "will only use those seats when necessary."

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/frontier-airlines-middle-seat-empty-trnd/index.html

So if you are in a aisle seat or a window seat your going to pay to have the middle seat empty............so do I go up to the passenger in either the aisle or window and ask are you going to pay first for the middle seat........so that I don't have too.............

[fleur-de-lisa]

1. This won't do anything to keep PAX from catching the virus from someone coughing behind them.

[MurrayDelph]

2. More likely

They'll charge you for the empty seat, then fill it anyway., like Southwest did to Kevin Smith.

[Fullduplexxx]

3. Now that's privilege

[Squinch]

4. Frontier airlines should be eating the cost of keeping seats empty so their customers don't die.

[jimfields33]

6. They already have you flying practically free

9 dollars one way! How can anyone complain? And 39 to keep a middle seat empty is still 48 dollars one way. Talk about flying on the cheap.

[FreepFryer]

5. Other airlines are not allowing middle seats to be booked. Fuck you, Frontier. (Nt)

[jimfields33]

7. Yes other airlines charge 200 dollars one way to frontiers 9 dollars one way.

You keep thinking you are getting a deal.

[FreepFryer]

8. I don't understand what u mean, but I'm not sure I have to. (Nt)