WASHINGTON — United Airlines is asking a federal judge to dismiss a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing the airline of charging passengers extra for “window seats” that didn’t actually have windows.

In a motion in the Northern District of California federal court, United argued that the term “window” refers only to the seat’s physical position on the aircraft and not to any promise of an exterior view.

“The use of the word ‘window’ in reference to a particular seat cannot reasonably be interpreted as a promise that the seat will have an exterior window view,” United’s attorneys wrote in the filing, obtained by various news outlets. “Rather, the word ‘window’ identifies the position of the seat — i.e., next to the wall of the main body of the aircraft.”

The lawsuit is one of two

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