Affaires Seating 777-200 Question
Apr 3, 2012, 6:39 pm
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Affaires Seating 777-200 Question
Wife and I have seat assignments on flight from LAX to PPT on AF in Affaires--seats 1G & 1K (two aisle seats next to each other). It appears we can move to the back of the cabin, seats 5F & 5G---2 seats immediately next to each other, but 5F is obviously a middle seat. Any suggestions about staying put or moving? Thanks.
Apr 4, 2012, 12:37 pm
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I haven't flown this route, but have friends who have. From my understanding, the J cabin on this flight usually goes out full. I believe this is because of pretty low fares from LAX. (Have seen +/- $2,300 round trip from LAX to PPT in J in the past.)
I would recommend taking the aisle and middle seat together. Figure the person sitting on the other aisle has aisle access so will not need to get out over you. If you take the two opposing aisles, not only are you not sitting together, you both will have people who need to climb over you for aisle access. (I guess only an issue when you have the seat reclined.) I'd keep an eye on the seat map and see if a set of two opens up. What is your travel date?
I would recommend taking the aisle and middle seat together. Figure the person sitting on the other aisle has aisle access so will not need to get out over you. If you take the two opposing aisles, not only are you not sitting together, you both will have people who need to climb over you for aisle access. (I guess only an issue when you have the seat reclined.) I'd keep an eye on the seat map and see if a set of two opens up. What is your travel date?
Apr 5, 2012, 4:59 pm
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ExpertFlyer now offers seat alerts for free, so I'd suggest signing up there. Through EF alerts, I managed to snag a window seat in row 60 on the A380 and 2A on the A330. It's kind of magical when the seat alert email comes in telling you that the seat you really, really wanted is now available 
Apr 5, 2012, 11:38 pm
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ExpertFlyer now offers seat alerts for free, so I'd suggest signing up there. Through EF alerts, I managed to snag a window seat in row 60 on the A380 and 2A on the A330. It's kind of magical when the seat alert email comes in telling you that the seat you really, really wanted is now available
Apr 19, 2012, 8:02 pm
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What about 3B for CDG-IAD? This will be my first Affaires run and on the older DL 763 I go with 2C but on 764 I do 1A. I don't want to get into the middle section and the seatmap is pretty wide open at this point.
Last edited by Xeno; Apr 20, 2012 at 3:01 pm