Originally Posted by
Cellisttoo
Cellos can get upgrades, if they have their own WP account. However, my question is whether the cellist, that would be me can accrue miles for purchasing two seats on a flight, be it for my cello or any other reason I might want to purchase two seats on the same flight- for example I might want room to stretch out for a flight to Europe but I don't want to spring for business.
General concensus seems to be that you get the RDM, yet you might have to fax/etc to get the credit. I suspect if you travel enough, you'll get to know the cellist desk at NW real well...
Originally Posted by
Cellisttoo
The cello is only allowed to "sit" in a bulkhead seat
Here is the Northwest Policy:
Northwest requires purchase of an additional seat and advance arrangements for carriage of musical instruments as cabin-seat luggage. Northwest must assign the instrument bulkhead seating behind a hard/rigid divider to comply with FAA safety regulations. See Carry-on Luggage for all the conditions of acceptance of cabin-seat luggage
That answers my unasked question about safety, yet does bring up something interesting...
If NW is required to seat the cello in a bulkhead seat
with rigid divider, in almost all the circumstance I can think of, the cello is going in row 1... even if you get stuck in Y. I can't remember a single Y bulkhead seat that is not an emergency exit, or has a soft-divider,
except the middle-row of two-aisle planes.
BTW, look up "cabin-seat luggage" on Google, and guess what the first result is:
http://www.cello.org/Newsletter/Articles/flying.html
Steve B.