Originally Posted by lincolnjkc

Saturday I'm on UA850 PEK-ORD with a waitlisted GPU -- have been watching details fairly carefully and at some point in the past 12 hours the seat map changed from the 'standard' pmUA 777-200 configuration to....well... one that doesn't seem to exist anywhere other than this flight -- it's not on united.com, it's not on seatguru.com...

It bears a familial resemblance to the Version 5 Polaris but it's not that -- rows 20-22 are 2-4-2, row 30 is missing ABC/JKL (0-4-0) and then goes to the "normal" 3-4-3 for rows 31-37 and 41-50 (38 is 2-0-0, 40 is 3-0-3, 41-52 is 2-4-2, and 53 is 0-4-0) ... It also labels the cabins as "United Polaris First", "Economy Plus", and "United Economy" -- I thought the "Polaris First" moniker was going the way of the 3-cabin fleet.

Anyway... what I'm most curious about at this point assuming the GPU fails to clear (I'm optimistic as it's currently showing J9/C9 but Y8/B5-- I'm currently in 40A (Exit Row Window -- a direct swap from my old 33A) the only other open E+ window right now is 31 which would appear to be missing the row in front.

Curious if anyone can compare 31A to 40A -- legroom/recline specifically in this configuration.