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Flying business for first time in August on an A380 to LHR to Miami, considering booking seats for a number of reasons, and wonder if we choose E and F (the only facing the same way option as a couple) … how do we get out?
It looks like the two other seats totally block you in? Is there an awkward encounter with your aisle seat neighbour each time you want to get out?
Failing that, is traveling with the ying/yang seats ok as a couple or does it feel like travelling solo?
Possibly a dumb question and apologies if asked and answered elsewhere, my Google-fu was failing me.
https://www.aerolopa.com/ba-38a
This is a better map
You will be stepping over D and G
Thanks, so I’ve just realised my confusion, I thought I’d be somehow stepping over D and G in the same row … bit it will be the next row, so just the feet.
Best E/F seats for accessibility are at the back of a section – so 14 E/F. But they are bassinet seats so reserved for babies and/or more expensive. They are side-by-side but apart from the back row you both have a climbing problem getting out.
Yin/yang pairs are good for couples as you face each other although one of you will always step over or be stepped over. Back of the cabin is still best as the window seat has unrestricted access. Best seats probably upstairs at the back of the front cabin – 53 A/B or 53 J/K. Lots of extra storage bins between the seat and the window and the forward loos are massive. Minor point is that A/B or J/K will be served, probably together, by the same cabin crew – whereas the centre seats bizarrely get served from different aisles and can be way apart time-wise.
The middle pair is very good for a couple. The aisle seats feel very exposed. The middle pair is very private once the dividers are up.
If you don’t pay to choose seats, you are likely to be allocated the middle pair anyway if you are downstairs, or an aisle and middle seat upstairs.
Personally, I prefer upstairs on the A380. It’s quieter.
I wouldn’t pay to select seats in BA CW, unless I was travelling solo and wanted one of the few windows seats where you are not stepping over anyone.
I also prefer the upper deck and would go for 59A and B or 59 J and K if row 53 is already taken. Those seats allow the window seat to get out without having to step over someone else’s legs but the aisle passenger has the passenger in the window seat in row 58 climbing over their legs.
The downside is that row 59 overlaps quite significantly with row 60 of WTP but you only notice that until they draw the curtain across but it does mean that you have no one (except cabin crew) passing you in the aisle. And the other potential downside is row 60 of WTP is the bassinet seats so you might have crying babies.
Thank you for this input, all really useful stuff. We’ve decided to roll the dice on being allocated seats as it seems to be around £220 for us to get pair worth selecting and I just can’t bring myself to pay that much, especially now I’ve realised the stepping over is just feet.
The stepping over mental image I had in my head would have been worthy of a Daily Mail headline or 5 if it were the case.
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