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Flight attendant rules who gets the middle armrests on planes & most passengers won’t be happy

LANDING the middle seat on a plane is bad enough, but the situation is made ten times worse by a battle over the armrest with neighbouring passengers.

A flight attendant has now sought to put all elbow wars to rest, by clarifying who gets ownership of the middle ground.

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A flight attendant has now sought to put all elbow wars to rest, by clarifying who gets ownership of the middle groundCredit: Alamy

Cabin crew member Boris Millan was speaking on the  with host LJ Salerno, when he said: "They did a lot of research in the UK for some reason about this - when you sit in the middle seat, you get to have..."

At which point LJ interjects: "You get both armrests!" And Boris agrees: "It's common sense, guys. It's common sense."

The decision is unlikely to be popular with most passengers - as it discounts two out of three people in each row.

But  Travel Expert, Rosie Panter has backed this up, telling : "It’s universally accepted that the middle seat passenger has drawn the short straw, so they should get the luxury of both armrests,"

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 told Sun Online Travel that the no man’s land of the armrest is a battle that will never end, because the battle for space is inbuilt into us as human beings.

She said: “Space is something that humans and animals fight wars over – it’s the most inflammatory thing.

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