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Old Jun 5, 2012, 7:13 am
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What I discovered yesterday:

Someone removed Row 13 from the 717 on my flight from ATL-JAX. I guess that row 13 has been removed throughout the fleet. Need to pay closer attention as I have never really noticed this before. Assumption is that Row 13 has been removed from the 73g's also.
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Old Jun 5, 2012, 9:43 pm
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LOL It took this long? When was the last time you had a hotel room numbered 13? Or an elevator that had a 13 button. Superstition!

PS there's no row 4-9 either
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Old Jun 5, 2012, 9:52 pm
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This is probably one of the funniest posts I have ever seen on FT.
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Old Jun 6, 2012, 6:25 am
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4-9 is an old story.

I have been on many many many FL aircraft and I have never noticed the absence of Row 13. I am sure that the problem is a lack of attention on my part. The wife and I were in Row 15 and something didn't look right when we were only 4 rows behind the curtain. That's when I noticed the deficit.

Live and learn

Originally Posted by traveller001
LOL It took this long? When was the last time you had a hotel room numbered 13? Or an elevator that had a 13 button. Superstition!

PS there's no row 4-9 either
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Old Jun 6, 2012, 8:05 am
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Originally Posted by henryf
Someone removed Row 13 from the 717 on my flight from ATL-JAX. I guess that row 13 has been removed throughout the fleet. Need to pay closer attention as I have never really noticed this before. Assumption is that Row 13 has been removed from the 73g's also.

I think that "someone" was Boeing when they built the planes!
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Old Jun 6, 2012, 5:09 pm
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Originally Posted by henryf
Someone removed Row 13 from the 717 on my flight from ATL-JAX.
Just call Airtran and talk to an A+ CSR, they can fix anything...
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Old Jun 7, 2012, 6:45 am
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Originally Posted by dmbolp
Just call Airtran and talk to an A+ CSR, they can fix anything...
They can

I will put it on my list of things to do

Are you sure that this wasn't a WN inspired cost saving measure?

BTW, I don't think that Boeing had anything to do with it. The carrier can assign row numbers upon delivery.
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Old Jun 8, 2012, 7:21 am
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Originally Posted by henryf
Are you sure that this wasn't a WN inspired cost saving measure?

BTW, I don't think that Boeing had anything to do with it. The carrier can assign row numbers upon delivery.
I doubt it was inspired by Southwest as all their aircraft have a row 13.

737-300

737-500

737-700
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Old Jun 8, 2012, 2:54 pm
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What I learned yesterday:

The FL 722 ATL-LAX crew only offers one beverage service over 4.8 hours. The FAs explained to us that LAX does not re-cater the plane and they're afraid they'll run out of beverages on their quick turn-around back east.

They said this was a relatively new circumstance owing to AirTran now operating from Terminal 1.
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Old Jun 11, 2012, 5:40 pm
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Originally Posted by LegalTender
What I learned yesterday:

The FL 722 ATL-LAX crew only offers one beverage service over 4.8 hours. The FAs explained to us that LAX does not re-cater the plane and they're afraid they'll run out of beverages on their quick turn-around back east.

They said this was a relatively new circumstance owing to AirTran now operating from Terminal 1.
That doesn't sound right! WN has catering at LAX. Why won't they cater their subsidiary's planes???
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Old Jun 14, 2012, 12:57 am
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Originally Posted by LoneStarMike
I doubt it was inspired by Southwest as all their aircraft have a row 13.

737-300

737-500

737-700
Yet rather ironically WN plans to have 13 FL 737's converted by the end of the year.
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Old Jun 14, 2012, 2:41 pm
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Originally Posted by formeraa
That doesn't sound right! WN has catering at LAX. Why won't they cater their subsidiary's planes???
On the flip side of that coin I took WN on ATL-HOU after the plane had arrived from LAX and they were short/out of certain drinks.
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Old Jun 15, 2012, 8:47 am
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Row 13

This is not at all a new development. I've been flying AirTran pretty heavily since late 2009, and I distinctly remember early in that period noticing that the planes (at least the 71s) have no row 13. Seemed a little odd, but it amused me a little.
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Old Aug 1, 2012, 12:35 pm
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It used to be quite common in the age before computers to not have a row 13...then they started showing up on aircraft (and 13th floors in buildings). But I noticed last year my KLM flights are missing row 13...I found it nostalgic and maybe a nod to a higher power.
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Old Aug 1, 2012, 1:47 pm
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I tried deliberately booking row 13 for a while to see if it helped me get a row to myself. It didn't.

I think CO also did not have row 13. The new UA seatmaps don't have row 13 either, though this is mostly due to them skipping row numbers to keep certain rows (exit rows, bulkheads) the same number on different aircraft.
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