The first and biggest benefit of sitting middle isn't immediately obvious until you've spent time in the seat. But once there, it becomes clear: Your seatmates feel bad for you.

On a crowded flight, it's important to be a good neighbor, especially when it comes to airplane armrest etiquette. Here, the experts weigh in on who gets those middle-seat armrests. We get it ...

Being in the middle seat can make it awkward to have to get up and use the restroom, but it's time to let those fears go and put your health first. "Through and through, stay hydrated," Berkson said.

Couples will even book the aisle and window seat of a row, hoping no one is assigned the middle. And when a solo traveler ends up in that middle seat, it throws them for a loop," Pierce, a Georgia ...

Sitting in the middle seat, I think of Thomas Bernhard’s grumbling narrator in “Woodcutters,” who cuts his acid observations of partygoers with a pathetic, comic refrain: “sitting in the ...