Airlines claim that passengers who pay extra for window seats are not entitled to a view: lawsuit

These travelers unknowingly threw their money out the window.

When you book a window seat on a plane, you’re likely expecting to be seated next to a window — but some airlines argue otherwise.

In response to a class-action lawsuit against Delta Air Lines and United Airlines filed by passengers who claimed they paid extra money to sit in “window” seats, only be sit in seats next to an empty wall, United has asked a federal judge to dismiss it.

The airline is arguing that a window seat means a seat next to a wall — not necessarily a seat with a 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,” the airline’s lawyers wrote in a motion to dismiss the case on Nov. 10.

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