We are booked in Club World on BA 49, LHR to SEA early next August. I booked this flight with Avios the day the award seats were released, and paid to choose our seats on the upper deck of the 747.

TodayI received an email notification that “our seats have changed.” This has occurred before, and it turned out to be an equipment change, in that case from 747 to 777, and then later back to a 747. Which was nice, as I much prefer the 747.

So, I was disappointed that we have lost our upper deck seats and back on a 777 this time. But then I thought how great it would be if we get a 787 instead. Last month we flew to Japan and back on 787’s in business/first and really like the planes. So I went to MMB to see, and this appears to be the case, although they call the aircraft type a “781”. What is it really????

The seat map in MMB shows Club World seats as rows 5-17, all with 1-2-1 seating. But I cannot see examples of this configuration on any of the sites that show and rate seats, even on BA’s website. Can anyone tell me about this seating?

BTW, if you try a mock booking of BA 49 next August to see the aircraft type it says “unavailable” (on my phone) or on the full website it simply lists the flight number BA49 under aircraft type. The only place I saw the number 781 was on the seat map that opened up in MMB.

With nothing to go by (they don’t even show the placement of the wing in relation to the seat rows) I chose window seats for both of us as far forward as we could get, so rows 7 and 8. I had to pay $9 more for Row 7 (on top of what we already paid for Upper Deck on the 747) so I figure this means the forward rows are considered more desirable.