Airline Tests Mood-Based Seating: Smart or Silly?

Not sure how effective it would be and I wouldn't want to pay for it, but sure. Give it a shot.

As a person who is a frequent flier this would greatly improve the general experience,it would most likely increase the cost of the flight though so having the option of being on a mood based flight or not might be another option

All the jihadist types would be sitting together.

Take in mind that an algorithm makes the seating choices for those who haven't reserved a seat. Perhaps your predicted situation wouldn't happen, or perhaps it would. No one really knows yet, I guess.

I also have a question for y'all: what if you still don't like who you're sitting next to? Do you get some kind of recompense or something? :|

smart for us but silly for the administrators,

Boy, I've heard of entitlement before, but this just takes the prize! Who actually decides who is compatible with whom? Do they have to go for an appearance check? And what if they don't want to sit with YOU? Are your tender little entitled feelings going to be hurt and make you be all traumatized? Boo-hoo!

It's very rare that I see a post so bitter and envious that i actually pity the poster. :(

Feel better OP!

Not bitter or envious. However, I don't suffer supercilious jerks gladly - just FYI.

Hey, as long as there's a be quiet and leave me alone choice, it works for me. I suppose work or relax would do that. I sort of like it.

Seating me next to "more compatible" people means it's more likely that they'll want to talk to me. I DON'T WANT TO TALK to strange, unfamiliar, people. Leave me alone, lest I reveal to you just how puerile and pointless is air travel to begin with.

Once again, the airline has diverted your attention toward childish and petty concerns, and away from what really matters. Once again they have fooled our fellow cattle into thinking that it's a good idea and fun to be herded around with no control over our bodies, have our children fondled by strangers in the name of security, have your shampoo and water taken away, strapped into midget chairs build for munchkin androids who never move, ordered to stand up and sit down at the sound of a bell, trapped in an airtight can with hundreds of other people's farts, and parked on hot tarmac for hours while being told that you do not have permission to use the toilet.

What the hell is wrong with people willing to pay to be treated like that?

Well there's always the choice not to pay for it and drive/train/sail where you want to go.

Wow, guess what? You found a flying buddy because I feel the exact same way!!!

You're making me thank God that I never get to travel anywhere. Never been on a plane in my entire life. Sounds like hell.

I taking a flight next week, i just want to sit on a mood-base seating and just relaxed.

Sounds fun! Then you'd even have an icebreaker for when you sat down. "So did you select easy chat, too? Where you heading? I just got back from DC." whatever. I love engaging in conversation...most of the time. But sometimes I just need a nap!

I like this alot

Wow. Would this be an administrative nightmare! Working in IT, I would not want to be the one to program the systems to accomodate all these requests and preferences. In addition, it just gives people one more thing to be unhappy with the airlines. They already charge us through the nose for everything. Now, we have to be concerned that they sit us with somebody not even close to what we want. How long will it be until they start charging for this service? I am still waiting for the 'Would you like to breath on this flight? It will be $150.00 service charge for oxygen.'

It's not silly because everybody would like to sit next to a compatible personality type. It's silly because I seldom have a choice of the general area/isle/window of the coach seats I buy. Now I'm to believe they can come close to making everyone happy with this added criterion? I'd rather see a flat partition going down the middle of the armrests between me and the passenger I'm seated next to...

Better yet, why not schedule "mood flights" for larger select groups of problem drinkers, religious kooks, laptop geeks, etc?

But how about the mood of "leave me alone" or "I have kids and will ruin your life"?

You forgot the 'I have kids that I don't discipline at all and will let them kick the beejeezus out of the seat from behind you' group.

And scream from the time the plane starts moving until it lands

If it keeps me from sitting next to someone annoying and doesn't raise my ticket price I'm all for it.
But I'd rather have wifi.

why not?

I know right!

Not to argue your point, yet one thing that might help the airplane company even more is if they change the colour of their currently caution-yellow headrest placemats. That particular shade of yellow is known to be an irritating colour, according to colour psychology (just Google "why is yellow irritating" for proof). I don't think buttery or sunshine yellow is much of a problem, but if these guys change their headrest placemat colour, I think it would help them even more than the mood seating thing :)

My single girlfriend always made sure she was seated next to a potential "mate" when flying. Now it is much harder to arrange seating assignments. I think families should have priority to be seated together, then it would be great if you can opt out of sitting next to babies!

I kind of love it, it's always fun to meet people on flights and kind of disappointing when the person next to you just wants to read/sleep/work and be left alone.

Its just a trial, let's see what happens!

Btw it's free for now, but if it becomes popular, I'm sure I can expect to pay for it in the future.

Who gives a sh!t? Be yourself & explain that you'd rather read, w

Both! But I like it. :P

They forgot the " shut the "F" up and leave me alone option.

Is sticking a sweaty jockstrap in the mouth of the blabbermouth next to you and telling her that you are not interested in speaking out of the question?

You might get nailed by the feminazis on that approach.

LOL! I originally had "STFU and leave me alone" but then I wimped out and changed it to "be quiet and leave me alone." I finally decided that "work" or "relax" would accomplish the same thing.

Who knows ... after millions of miles I resorted to saying nothing and staring and scowling as if I was weighing the possibility of slitting their throat. That usually did it.

this is a great idea hope its inplace when I go to maui this winter

How about adding some massage seats.

Even when you reserve a row for you family airlines frequently do not honor the seating. Most of the time the airplane you think you are scheduling is not what turns up on the tarmac. We have reserved and paid for the middle seat to remain empty so allow the children room to have the airline take it away from us without notice. Next was a fight to get our money back that lasted 4 months. US Airlines = RipOff