Originally Posted by
jef7
Checking my itinerary to LHR in a week and surprised to see my ORD to LHR segment as showing a seat map for a domestic 763

I still get to keep 6A but at the last row of the front cabin. Geez, the flight is to Europe not Hawaii

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It would be quite unfortunate to end up on the old configuration given only 2 are still out there.
Why not? ORD-LHR is shorter than ORD-HNL...