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Dec 13, 2012 | 12:20 am

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amolkold

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Originally Posted by PRedLSU

Thanks for the info dhuey. Do you find that seatguru will usually tell you if a F seat has completely reclining beds, etc...?

Also, I know you can often check the type of equipment when you purchase your ticket but can't airlines change that up in the days leading up to departure, thereby making the plan for F seats a fruitless endeavor?

There are some routes that have pretty much SET seat types. For example, Delta runs special 757s between LAX/SFO and JFK with their BusinessElite product. I've flown that route when it got subbed to a 767-300, but it was still the same seat, just without wifi.

But yes, unless that route is a specific route for a premium product, I wouldn't chase a special seat. I was supposed to fly EWR-ORD this weekend and connected to ORD-IAH-LAX on the United Dreamliner. They took 787 off that route that day. However, I switched to EWR-IAH-SFO on the 787 and SFO-LAX to get home, and still got the exact seat assignments I wanted. I was pretty lucky.

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