Originally Posted by
WildcatYXU
Does anyone know what is the story with the former Rouge routes that have been replaced with the 7M8? Will they be flown by regular 7M8s, or by the ex Lynx ones? I'm looking at CZM currently. The AC web site is showing J unavailable. This would suggest an ex-Lynx aircraft. However, the seat map starts with row 12. Expertflyer is showing the same. All J fare buckets are at zero. Yet the seat map is actually showing 16 J seats with 2 of them booked. I would not want to book it now and they have difficulties to change our packages when J becomes available. Any ideas?
There are lots of reasons J may be zeroed out, possibly including a potential AC swap.
The ex-Lynx planes are all Y and start at row 1. The first five or six rows *may* have slightly greater pitch (just by eyeballing it, but by no more than an inch or so). Anything aft of that is 100% sardine tin all the way. Seat width seems even narrower, if that's possible, and all seats have about as much padding as a cinder block. No recline (good, I suppose, since the seat back ahead of you is already only a few inches from your nose to begin with), no IFE, and no working Wi-Fi on the disaster I flew on a few days ago.
I can't even begin to tell you how much I hate these horrid aircraft. I won't fly on another one. Hello Porter, I guess we'll be seeing more of each other.