Originally Posted by
maradori
As a SE and former 75K, I like these changes ^
Hope that AC airport staff and FAs will receive the proper training to protect these seats -- e.g. gate agents not giving it out for free, FA's policing the front rows like the eewnited FAs
Kind of disappointed that *G can still choose the bulkhead row for free. Eewnited doesn't give that to us, why are we giving this to them?
Don't be fooled,
gotto read between the lines, if someone PAID for those seats and booked it, regardless of your status you will NOT get those seats!!! This is a total departure from the past that those front rows could not be booked by non-status folks at the time of booking.
What happens now is:
- Joe, family and kids and inlaws booking AC for the first time 3mos in advance
- The book cheapest fare
- AC offers, do you like to pick from front row seats for additional cost?
- Joe pays for those and books the whole front row for the whole family and kids on their first ever flight
- SE books after them 2 weeks prior to flight, and has no option on the front row as *paid* customer paid and booked the seats!
This basically makes the front rows totally crowded, and more revenue for AC, and for any last minute business traveler (most of my flights), it'd be almost impossible to get those front rows.