Originally Posted by
kipper
That is the best of both worlds.
Well, except that on my flight to FCO, I had an entire section of of seats (3-3-3 configuration) to myself. So, I could sprawl out across 3 seats.
On my DTW-SAT flight the other night, my coworker had all 3 seats on the wider side of a 717 to himself in C+. Technically companions aren’t UG eligible to C+, but I guess the GA moved him there anyway because it was so empty. He was pretty happy about that.
I was by myself on the 2 seat side of C+ but ended up getting moved to 1B right before the door closed after 2 people no-showed (was #5 for 3 seats at gate). Honestly, I might have been better off with my own row in C+. I generally avoid bulkheads because I’m tall, the flight was too late for dinner service, and the FA was not very forthcoming with drink service. Still, I wasn’t going to turn down F, especially now that UGs are rare as a lowly FO. 😀