Thank you, JetBlue.

I flew JetBlue on my recent trip to New York. I find no need to use any other airline. JetBlue is the best.

First of all, it was the cheapest flight I could find to New York and back on short notice—and that was even into JFK instead of LaGuardia, which is usually more expensive.

Second, they have TV's for every seat where you can watch real TV.

Third, they have blue potato chips.

But my flight back was, even for JetBlue, a singular experience. I'd gotten an exit row seat, which is a great deal—you get extra leg room, and the plane only rarely crashes so it usually doesn't matter that you're in the exit row.

(As an aside, I don't have an extra leg so I used the space for other things. They're nice about that.)

On top of my exit row seat, though, was the huge bonus that the other two seats in my row didn't get filled. No-shows, or something. So now I not only had more legroom, but I had the whole row to myself.

My next actions were obvious: I moved into the middle seat, so I'd have optimal lateral legroom, and I tuned all three TV's to different channels. Then when one got boring or went to a commercial, I'd unplug my headphones and plug them into a different one that looked more interesting.

Paired with blue potato chips, it was a near-optimal TV-watching experience. And one heck of a plane ride.