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I have booked a very long short haul flight — it’s showing as 4h45, although I guess it should be a little less than that unless we’re delayed on the ground. Cash ticket, in economy (Euro Traveller).
The flight is six weeks away, and when I booked I immediately popped myself into an exit row, which is what I normally do on any short haul. Curiously, although I was booking two months before departure *and* there are two exit rows on this plane, all the exit row seats were gone, except one middle one (12E).
In front all the seats are taken in rows 9 (where economy starts) and 10, 11 is also exit and all gone.
Having taken 12E I’ve been checking back every few days for a Club upgrade. Usually there’s something for cash at a reasonable price, but not on this flight, and no luck with Avios upgrade either. This leaves me wondering, as I’m normally a club-and-aisle or exit-and-aisle preference person, if I should go further back in the aircraft and get an aisle seat. But for such a long flight, would the legroom help more than the discomfort of feeling (and being) hemmed in? I’m 1m80/5’10”, aircraft type is 32N out of Heathrow, which means the rows after exit are thin seats I’ve never had the chance to try out before.
I know this may be a matter of personal preference, but I’m interested in opinions, in particular from anyone who has sat for a long time in the new thin seats.
Have you checked if 9, 10 & 11 are occupied or blocked? Do you have Gold status? The new thin seats are too firm for my liking so I’d avoid if possible. I’d take an aisle in 9 or 10 over middle in exit row though. I’m 6ft 2 & can just about manage in non emergency row.
My thoughts would be to stick with what you have & hope that an aisle in 9/10 opens up in 48-72 hours pre departure. I wouldn’t move back on a long flight.
Have you checked if 9, 10 & 11 are occupied or blocked? Do you have Gold status?
I haven’t checked, and I wouldn’t know how. I did occur to me they might be reserved in case the Club area grows and the curtain moves back. I have silver, not gold.
The new thin seats are too firm for my liking so I’d avoid if possible. I’d take an aisle in 9 or 10 over middle in exit row though. I’m 6ft 2 & can just about manage in non emergency row.
My thoughts would be to stick with what you have & hope that an aisle in 9/10 opens up in 48-72 hours pre departure. I wouldn’t move back on a long flight.
Thanks. I’ll keep checking… people cancel all the time, I might get lucky. I’m beginning to suspect everyone with status on the flight has piled into the leather seats to avoid the thin ones, hence the very odd looking loading on the seat map.
Just did a dummy booking, there’s loads of unallocated seats in club, and row 8 is blocked. I suspect the curtain might go forward, not back. I’ll keep checking.
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