Delta Air Lines must face lawsuit over ‘window seats’ that have no windows

BNN Bloomberg · Reuters Staff · 2026-11-05 18:14 UTC

A federal judge rejected Delta Air Lines’ request to dismiss a lawsuit by passengers who said they paid extra money to sit in window seats, but found themselves seated next to windowless blank walls.

A federal judge rejected Delta Air Lines’ request to dismiss a lawsuit by passengers who said they paid extra money to sit in window seats, but found themselves seated next to windowless blank walls.

U.S. District Judge Ramon Reyes in Brooklyn ruled on Wednesday that there was a reasonable dispute over whether Delta’s contract of carriage, which says the carrier “does not offer tickets or contracts to customers that guarantee particular seats,” required Delta to provide window seats to passengers who paid for them.

Reyes did not decide the lawsuit’s merits. In July, a federal judge in San Francisco rejected United Airlines’ bid to dismiss a similar lawsuit.

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