Originally Posted by
newyorkgeorge
It's been reported that some GA have tried to change BE seats but have been prompted to ask for payment. A little OT but I wonder if AA would consider taking the last few rows, configuring with a seat pitch of 28-29 inches and dedicate that solely to BE fares (a separate class).
Based on my own observations, the last few rows end up being the de facto BE section currently.
Sunday was the first time I've flown BE AND boarded with Group 9 (the last two times, I was flying with my wife and our infant and they let us preboard) and they were really aggressive about forcing Group 9 to check small rollaboards. I had my backpack and my wife's CPAP and was worried there wouldn't be room in an overhead for the machine, but there were several half-empty overhead bins. I suspect they were being so aggressive so they didn't have to gate check any bags that were already in the overhead bin to make room for bags that couldn't be gate checked.