What's the best seat on a plane?

Any aisle seat so you can go to the restroom easily and quickly.

bulkhead (front aisle of a section), trust me-I’m a tall bastard.

The best seat on an airplane is usually found in 1st class.

If not 1st class, then an aisle seat, especially if you frequent the bathroom.

Remember, the best seat may not be the safest seat.

It depends on if you have to pee a lot, or want to sleep (choose one). For peeing, the aisle. For sleeping, the window. For ultimate discomfort because you’re a masochist, the middle.

It depends on your preferences. Some people like being as close to the front as possible, so that they can get off the plane quickly (especially if they have a tight connection). Some people don’t care where in the plane, so long as they have an aisle seat (so they can get up and move around without going over their row-mates. Some just want a Window seat so that none of their row-mates have to go over them. Some want to be as close to the rest room as possible, others want to be as far from the rest room as possible. Some want to be in the Emergency Exit rows, as they generally have more legroom.

A good guide to selecting your airplane seat is http://www.seatguru.com. Plug in your airline and the kind of plane you’re flying in and it’ll give you an evaluation of every seat on the plane, with its advantages and drawbacks.

@john65pennington The “safest”? I’m sorry, what? What is your logic behind thinking any one seat is more safe than any other? If the plane goes down, you’re dead. Where you’re sitting is irrelevant.

I really like flying really late at night or early in the morning — the flights no one wants —because then you usually have about 20 people total on the plane and get a whole aisle to yourself where you can stretch out and really sleep or read or just be comfortable.

If heights make you nauseous, don’t get a window seat. Aisle seats allow for more movement without disturbing others around you. Probably in the not to distant future any seat you get will be the best seat.:-)
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I asked this a couple weeks ago. Wherever it is, I always choose row 26.

@MrItty while a plane completely crashing is obviously one case where your seat location makes no difference, there are many other scenarios that are possible. These include emergency landings, water landings, smoke in the cabin, collision with another vehicle/plane/object while taxiing etc. I thought I read somewhere that there are many times as many severe injuries due to random turbulence than ever get hurt/killed from a entire planes going down per year (this could be wrong).

I always try for a window seat, since I still can’t really get over the beauty of flying over cities, mountains, hills, seeing the mountains, watching the sun rise or moon rise. Amazing really.

A window seat near the middle of the aircraft. at the front and back there is a lot more movement when the plain goes up or down, the middle is the smoothest ride.

A diamond first class suite (yes suite not just a seat) on an Etihad flight. I didn’t want to get off.

@gorillapaws I have never heard/seen/read any reports that any seat is statistically more likely to be the location of a fatal accident than another, in any of those scenarios. Can you please cite some?

I believe it’s better to be ahead of the wings, as it’s slightly quieter than being behind the engines…

Closest to the main exit. Time comes to a complete standstill while you are waiting for passengers seated ahead of you to get their crap out of the overhead and get out of your way.

Window seat