Hannah Towey/Insider
To avoid an extra $20-50 fee, I declined the option to select my seat during check-in. I got lucky and ended up with an aisle seat in row 17, toward the middle of the plane.
I'm not sure if I would have been able to stand a middle seat. Next time, I don't think I would risk it.
The seat was rock-hard, and very narrow. The lack of legroom even made me (a smaller than average person) feel cramped and claustrophobic. Thankfully, there was enough room to move my backpack into the overhead bins.