Originally Posted by
nycatl
Similar issue here...
Last two times RDU-ATL (2 months apart) relocated from exit row window to aisle seat. Both occasions explained by equipment swap (1st - GA, 2nd - Medallion desk), both times still on MD88. Could understand a MD90 > MD88 swap, but, same type?. Thought it was only 757 with the multiple configs.
In the grand scheme not a big deal for a hour flight and fortunate to have landed in aisle seat, and signifcantly further forward (24 to mid-teens) - just sayin'...
Conspiracy theorists...RDU GA shena?? Where's Robert Stack when you need him??
+1 on the notification front - wish DL could add some logic to the alert system...that is something I would
want to know, not a dep/arr change of < 5 mins.
Unfortunately there are two versions of the MD80 floating around, one with 16F and no rear galley and one with 14F and a rear galley.
http://www.delta.com/planning_reserv...d-88/index.jsp
So, I can believe the Gate agents/Medallion desk.
I think it is more along the lines of the liability issue with not agreeing that you are willing and able to sit in an exit row seat. When the swap happens, regardless of ship, it does not assign anyone back into the exit row because you aren't reasked the questions. This is another great example of Delta's stellar technology, where you already answered the questions and yet it throws you out.