Originally Posted by
ar2410
Hi all,
I am flying to MRU on BA2065 in Jan 24 and have been informed of a seat change due to operational reasons. I originally paid for a seat in WT and have been automatically assigned a seat that I can of course now change. However the seat map looks different so I assume this is a different aircraft? In the photo, this looks to be at the back of the aircraft, I've tried to search but can't see any seat map that resembles row 39? Am I missing something?
Your aircraft is a normal Gatwick B777 (type B77S under the Aerolopa seat plans), however the BA seat map does indeed cut off the seat map at row 39 when these aircraft go back to row 46. While I usually would just blame BA’s awful tech, the fact Expertflyer also stops at row 39 suggests to me that BA might be limiting sales on this flight as a change to a LHR CS equipped B777 might occur and they have less overall capacity then the LGW B777 fleet. So by limiting sales / seat choices to a smaller number of seats then the LGW fleet actually contains, this gives the fleet planning team flexibility to switch in a LHR CS B777 should the need arise as the LGW fleet are cycled through maintenance.
Pilot37