By Jonathan Stempel

(Reuters) -United Airlines has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it unfairly charged passengers extra money to sit in “window seats” that, to their surprise, lacked windows.

Passengers filed proposed class actions in August against United and Delta Air Lines after finding their seats on Boeing 737, Boeing 757 and Airbus A321 planes were windowless, which they say wasn’t flagged during the booking process.

But in a Monday filing in San Francisco federal court, United said it never contractually promised that seats in the window position would have views, even when it used “window” to label those seats on seat selection screens and boarding passes.

“The word ‘window’ identifies the position of the seat—i.e., next to the wall of the main body of the a

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