United Airlines plans to remove the middle seat from a special Economy Plus row on its incoming Airbus A321XLR aircraft, giving window and aisle passengers more elbow room on longer flights.

United Airlines will soon let travelers pay for one of air travel's biggest luxuries: an empty middle seat. The new Economy Plus option will debut later this year on the carrier's new Airbus A321XLR ...

United is introducing a new Economy Plus seating option that swaps the middle seat for a table on select Airbus A321XLR aircraft.

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United's new economy offering features a vacant middle seat that's covered from armrest to armrest with a table and cupholders that aisle and window seat passengers may use.

United will charge flyers to keep the middle seat empty in a row on A321XLR jets. The upsell is brilliant, but Southwest's seating fiasco shows how it could backfire.

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United Airlines is testing a new Economy Plus option on transatlantic flights that blocks the adjacent middle seat, offering more space without business class prices.

Technically, the seat will still be there -- but instead of a passenger sitting in it, the seat will have a custom table set up.