19/04/2025
LAST attempt (😅) to explain that the tip for a whole row doesn’t affect anyone else — and my apologies!
Andrew here, Flytrippers cofounder. I’m sorry if you felt attacked; that’s certainly not my intention. My intention is always to help travelers; I love that.
Even a bit too much sometimes. I’ve never said it here in 8+ years, but I have ADHD and one of my challenges is that I’ve always been very intense when I talk about a topic that I’m passionate about — and I’m VERY passionate about travel and the chance I have to be able to help you travel ❤️🔥
I always try to be better, and I’ll continue. Wanting to be better is literally the most important thing in life, in my opinion as a fan of self-improvement.
(That’s why I want everyone to travel more, by the way. Traveling is one of the best ways to become a better person obviously, as you probably know if you travel; go discover more cultures, try more ways of living, and get out of your comfort zone more!)
I hope you too want to become better.
I will help you become a better traveler by sharing my experience in 70+ countries, on 500+ flights, and of 8+ years of spending 40+ hours per week in this industry to learn the tips and make sure you can take advantage of them!!! ✈️
I respect all opinions of course, and I’ll improve so that it’s more evident.
That said… in life, the key to forming a good opinion is to be better informed! I’ll try to better give you the facts more clearly. So you can be better informed more easily.
Let’s take the seat tip as an example here today.
🔸🔸 Tip that can give you a whole row of seats 🔸🔸
The fact is that every day, hundreds of thousands of travelers choose an aisle and a middle seat together (scenario 1 in the infographic). That creates a single isolated seat… and that’s fine, there are a ton of solo travelers. People who prefer the aisle are obviously allowed to choose the aisle and the middle.
The tip (scenario 2) changes absolutely nothing in terms of available seats for those who aren’t traveling solo, compared to that.
There’s no difference. It creates a single isolated seat (and that’s fine, there are TONS of solo travelers).
And the fact is our tip is (and has always been) to simply swap seats if someone ends up in the middle!
So it changes absolutely nothing for that person either! Nothing at all.
The tip is not selfish because it changes nothing for anyone… except for you!
**IF** a seat is empty on the plane (extremely common), there are very good chances that it’ll be next to you instead of being randomly next to someone else!💺💺💺
Your opinion might be that people who do this and don’t swap places are selfish? That seems like a pretty good opinion… but that’s not our tip at all. In the 3 bullet points that summarize the tip at the top of our post, the 3rd was clearly to swap places if someone is in the middle.
Should you deprive yourself of the thousands of dollars in free travel that are easy to get just because **others** don’t use the travel rewards tip well and don’t pay their cards in full? Of course not! It’s the same principle with the seats tip. If **you** use it well, it affects no one else.
Your opinion might be that people shouldn’t be able to choose the aisle and the middle either? I can honestly say that there are many conflicting opinions on many topics in this industry, but that’s one I’ve never heard of anyone who knows about the industry.
It’s just not a thing to force ALL travelers to choose the window. Those who prefer the aisle rather than the window can choose the aisle and the middle. And the tip has the exact same effect as that, nothing more.
Finally, we’ll also keep using more of that new article format that lists the highlights in bullet points at the top. It gives you all the information and all the tips very clearly and very quickly 😀
I wish you a great Easter weekend! 🐇🥚