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Why you should stay in your assigned airline seat

No more seat switching on the plane. Here's why.

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Christopher Elliott
Nov 05, 2023
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Enough with switching airline seats already.

Swapping seats seems to be a thing lately. Maybe you've watched those viral videos, which feature people changing seats without permission and other entitled passenger behavior involving airline seats. Or maybe you've seen the Reddit threads in which passengers try to trick their fellow travelers into switchin…

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