Goodbye to paying more for a seat: A travel expert's trick to avoid getting the middle seat

Many passengers in Spain take the decision to choose their seat very seriously every time they board a flight. When purchasing a ticket, some choose to sit next to the window to gaze at the sky, while others prefer to travel next to the aisle. However, virtually no travelers choose the middle seat, as it's the worst seat in the entire row.

Although it's not the preferred seat for virtually every traveler, there are those who refuse to pay the extra money to choose a specific seat and, when it's time to check in, resign themselves to being forced to sit in the middle. What not many people know is that there's a trick to avoid randomly landing in that spot on the aircraft, as a travel influencer has revealed on TikTok.

What to do to avoid sitting in the middle seat on the plane

If you click on 'continue with random seat assignment' on the website of a low-cost airline, such as Ryanair or EasyJet, the airline will likely assign the middle seat, ensuring that other users will pay for the window or aisle seat, as influencer Jorden Tually explains in the video.

The travel content creator, who has more than 3.7 million followers on the social network, has come up with a trick to avoid having to travel in those hated seats . To do this, the first thing he does is check which seats are still available on the plane, and simulate a purchase for all those seats with completely made-up names that, of course, aren't real.

After that, select all the seats you don't want to sit in on the plane, excluding all those in the middle of the row and even some at the back of the plane. When you click "continue," the booking system will reserve all those seats for approximately 10 or 15 minutes, and that's when it's time to buy the real ticket, since the worst seats will be "taken."

When you purchase a ticket normally, the airline will assign you one of the free seats that isn't already occupied by the other seats you've selected, ensuring that you'll be traveling on the plane in one of your preferred seats. This trick is extremely simple and free, as well as very effective.