Star Alliance - Star Alliance Gold can book preferred, exit row seating on CO

As I reported here:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/mileage-run-deals/1010657-ua-co-codeshare-sea-iah-129ai-3-4cpm.html

Probably best to continue discussing here rather than on the MR Deals board.

Just got off a >5 hrs flight with CO inside the US, and had the unfortunate idea of getting myself in the exit row. In this case it meant (seat 11C, the exit-row more to the front, row 12 was exit as well) to sit straight all five hours with no way to sleep, and due to a seat that was slightly declining to the left side of the front, stepped out of the plane with a severe back-ache.

Legroom was plenty, but I could not put it to any good use, as I needed to constantly press against slithering off the declining seat.

What seems odd is that all FA have aprons that seem to bulge to both sides and love to bump into people trying to get a rest. Not bad intention, I guess, but unfortunate if you are trying to get some rest. So if at all, the windows seat seems to be the best option for exit row, but be aware they might not recline, keeping your upper body in an awkward position all the time of the flight.

As I reported here:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/mileage-run-deals/1010657-ua-co-codeshare-sea-iah-129ai-3-4cpm.html

Probably best to continue discussing here rather than on the MR Deals board.

This is Wrong information. Please read post # 245 of the following thread from CO Insider:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/continental-onepass/1010428-ask-co-insider-star-alliance-announcements-discussions-17.html



Just got off a >5 hrs flight with CO inside the US, and had the unfortunate idea of getting myself in the exit row. In this case it meant (seat 11C, the exit-row more to the front, row 12 was exit as well) to sit straight all five hours with no way to sleep, and due to a seat that was slightly declining to the left side of the front, stepped out of the plane with a severe back-ache.



Yes, usually the row 11's in those aircrafts do not have recline. However, the Row 12 has full recline and is an exit row. Check co.com seat maps or seatguru.com to see which rows do / do not have recline among exit rows.

Yes, usually the row 11's in those aircrafts do not have recline. However, the Row 12 has full recline and is an exit row. Check co.com seat maps or seatguru.com to see which rows do / do not have recline among exit rows.

Correct, I should have done that. As I got this seat assigned at the airport, while checking in, it was too late anyway to get the good info from seatguru.

I have registered the sloping-downwards seat with the FAs and hope it will be repaired.

Yes, usually the row 11's in those aircrafts do not have recline.
In general, the row in front of any exit row will not recline. Since rows 11 and 12 are exit rows, rows 10 and 11 do not recline.

I do have to give credit to the swiftness with which the miles showed up on my M&M account: I´ve seen much worse, actually in only two days they were booked. Seems as if CO is using computers to do it as opposed to some European airlines that use other kinds of magic ;-) ;-).

And this was just days after their entry into *A. Kudos.

I do have to give credit to the swiftness with which the miles showed up on my M&M account: I´ve seen much worse, actually in only two days they were booked. Seems as if CO is using computers to do it as opposed to some European airlines that use other kinds of magic ;-) ;-).

And this was just days after their entry into *A. Kudos.

Looking forward to the same this weekend when I fly on CO in the exit rows. Good on them to CO for allowing this!