Originally Posted by
Workie Ticket
Even though row 9 on an A321 is classed as an exit row it isn't an exit row. It is where an extra 2 seats and a CC jump seat has been shoe-horned into the space behind row 8 which was previously clear for the exit door. There are no lights or air vents as this area wasn't intended to have seats. There also seems to be less leg room there than the non-exit row seats.
Row 10 is the better exit row seat on the densified A321s.
I would argue that 9B in this case is an exit row seat. You can hop it quickly leftwards and backwards to get to the exit. I agree it's not what most of us would think of as an exit row and it's therefore misleading on legroom expectations, but there may be a definition nuance that we don't know about.
OP, Re your earlier point, if an existing customer is in an exit row in ET and the CE curtain moves back, I don't think there is much if any human intervention whether you're blue, silver or diamond-encrusted platinum. You end up where the computer puts you. For me it tends to be the first available aisle seat which by that stage can often be very close to the back. Otherwise it inexplicably defaults to a middle seat, even when windows are available.