Originally Posted by
dingo
Thank you. Though, kind of surprised that lie flats, which I think these to be, are in a config that still has people climbing over each other to get out.
How can I tell if these are Polaris, or are they certainly not based on the config?
Every UA business class seat on a wide body is lie-flat.
Direct aisle access is a relatively new phenomenon in J; UA was an early adopter of lie-flat business class seating and it wasn't yet available when they made their purchasing decisions. (That's a big part of the impetus of the Polaris retrofit).
Polaris seats will appear in blue on the seat map on United.com. Non-Polaris seats will appear in orange. The 2-1-2 config is not Polaris. The 1-1-1 config is.
UA doesn't generally show the Polaris configuration on a 767 in advance, in order to reduce the number of complaints they get if a swap occurs. The actual seat map is generally finalized about three days prior to departure (but is still subject to swapping even after that based on operational considerations).