To answer some of these questions, Oct 10 & Oct 17. FLL to MSP, then MSP to BIS. Reverse on way home. Funny vincentharris says no/no, but one person on the other thread here said they flew BE 3 times and were seated together, when seeing seating at Check In. I am against paying the extra hundred because at 444 each person, this is already higher than fares we have paid on Delta and American, for the same routing, prior to these airlines starting this stupid BE class. Oh, and for Often1, I did find where they said that even with BE, using our Delta Skymiles Gold, we could still check our bags for free. (first bag each). Changing dates or day of week (currently Wed both ways) is not an option due to my wife's days off at work.