Overview

• Go Law (Greenbaum Olbrantz) announced it will file federal class actions in the Northern District of California within days, though no complaints appear yet on public dockets.
• Plaintiffs claim United and Delta charged extra fees for window seats that in some Boeing 737 configurations abut a solid fuselage wall without an actual window.
• Airlines and engineers have explained that cabin-wall ducts and structural supports prevent windows in certain seat rows, a standard feature on many narrowbody jets.
• The proposed United class is limited to California residents who paid for a window seat in the past four years, a strategy designed to leverage state laws and bypass arbitration clauses.
• United and Delta have not provided immediate comment, and travelers can use seat-map tools like SeatGuru to spot windowless seats before booking.