{"id":763807,"date":"2026-07-15T05:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/763807\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T05:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:53:10","slug":"united-aircraft-will-remove-the-dreaded-middle-seat-in-some-rows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/763807\/","title":{"rendered":"United aircraft will remove the dreaded middle seat in some rows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"I5Q7XI7HJBC7BDQDNS6FAFROQY\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">United Airlines is removing one of the more unpleasant experiences in flying \u2014 the jam-packed row \u2014 with a new economy option that replaces the middle seat with a table.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"QM3F5XIMI5F7RJPO4XJKDHROPU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.united.com\/en\/us\/newsroom\/announcements\/cision-125474\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.united.com\/en\/us\/newsroom\/announcements\/cision-125474\">Economy Plus configuration<\/a>, which will debut later this year on the carrier\u2019s new Airbus A321XLR aircraft, will feature a middle seat with a fixed table stretching between armrests. Passengers on either side can share the mini-desk that comes with two shallow holders for beverages and enough space for a small snack or travel-size board game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United Airlines is removing one of the more unpleasant experiences in flying \u2014 the jam-packed row \u2014 with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-763807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}