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Old Feb 25, 2014, 4:53 pm
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Flew SMF-SEA yesterday on N587AS. Had all the new seats and power (along with the missing F divider) but still had the old bins.

There were lots of announcement about the new seats and power and that Alaska would be retrofitting 2 planes per month.
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Old Feb 25, 2014, 5:04 pm
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Originally Posted by zmaniacz
Flew SMF-SEA yesterday on N587AS. Had all the new seats and power (along with the missing F divider) but still had the old bins.

There were lots of announcement about the new seats and power and that Alaska would be retrofitting 2 planes per month.
So AS is removing the divider from the retrofitted 73H's?

Is there no pull-able curtain anymore?
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Old Feb 25, 2014, 5:38 pm
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Originally Posted by zmaniacz
There were lots of announcement about the new seats and power and that Alaska would be retrofitting 2 planes per month.
Out of how many?
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Old Feb 25, 2014, 8:28 pm
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Originally Posted by beckoa
So AS is removing the divider from the retrofitted 73H's?

Is there no pull-able curtain anymore?
There was no curtain whatsoever on the -900ER I flew SEA-LAX the other day.
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Old Feb 26, 2014, 12:29 am
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Originally Posted by beckoa
So AS is removing the divider from the retrofitted 73H's?

Is there no pull-able curtain anymore?
Nope, totally gone. One big cabin now. Definitely harder for the FAs to police pax coming up from Y into F cabin. Distance from row 4 to row 6 didn't seem appreciably different from old config, so leaving the curtain out just seems...odd. I don't get it.
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Old Feb 26, 2014, 12:31 am
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Originally Posted by Points Scrounger
Out of how many?
They made it sound like all planes would get the retrofit. But this was just an FA announcement, so as always, grain of salt...
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Old Feb 26, 2014, 12:44 pm
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Originally Posted by brownnet
There was no curtain whatsoever on the -900ER I flew SEA-LAX the other day.
I was on Russell Wilson's 900ER the other night and there is a small piece of cloth that replaces the bulkhead. The curtain "separates" F and Y usually ends up resting on or near my head if I'm in 4D.
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Old Mar 3, 2014, 12:14 pm
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New Seats W/ Power

I flew AS 451 yesterday 03/02/2014 from LAX to SEA. 737-800 with new Recaro seats but no modifications to the Overhead bins or the Divider between first and coach.

I loved the seats with the 6 way headrest and the power ..... Very nice !! Hugely welcome change to the Tired old DL 757-200 I had just come in from Central America aboard.

I did not hook up to Gogo so cannot verify any present streaming capabilities from an onboard server. I had rented media on my ipad that I needed to watch before expiration.

FWIW the paint job on the left engine looked brand spanking new or at least freshly polished. I figured this aircraft had recently undergone a C or D check and had been retrofitted then. I am remiss for not collecting the ship # although I know that information is easy to find on flight aware or the like.

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Old Mar 3, 2014, 12:58 pm
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I'm a big fan of the power decks with only one personal complaint and one complaint others might have.

For me, I'm not a big fan of the power brick they put under the seats. Really limits what you can fit under there. For others, I've noticed people with Apple laptops that have those giant brick plugs right at the adapter have some real issues plugging those in and getting them to stay in. I attribute this mostly to the stupidity of putting the transformer assembly right on the plug like Apple does, though.
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Old Mar 3, 2014, 8:08 pm
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Class Dividers

Those aircraft that have the powered seats will get dividers installed in the near future.
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Old Mar 3, 2014, 9:09 pm
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Originally Posted by Bay Area Blue
Those aircraft that have the powered seats will get dividers installed in the near future.
Thanks for the update ^

Any idea how many a/c have power now?
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Old Mar 4, 2014, 1:34 am
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Old Mar 4, 2014, 10:32 am
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Four out of how many? I thought the entire fleet was supposed to have power by the end of this year?
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Old Mar 4, 2014, 5:27 pm
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Originally Posted by PDXPremier
But someone reported being able to watch streaming movies on a ATL-PDX earlier in this thread so at least one plane is already equipped.
Not possible...no aircraft has yet been equipped with the on-board server (massive hard drive) that contains the streaming video content. All we're told is that it's on the way but no dates have been announced.
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Old Mar 5, 2014, 12:27 pm
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This is the current status of the cabin interior mods. as I know them.

Seat/Power mods: 4 complete, 2 currently undergoing mods, with 88 to go.

Media server: Pretty vague info, end of year to begin inst.?

Heath Techna overhead bins: One plane done as a trial (N584AS), I don't know if it will be done on the rest of the non BSI interiors.

Overhead/Sidewall LED lighting: Done on N584AS. I don't know whether it is also a trial or just the first plane to be done.

Dividers:Of the planes that have the seat /power mod., two have nothing, N584AS has a divider specific to the heath techna bins and (N587AS?) has a trial divider installed by a engineering order. The installation of dividers may be waiting on the decision to go ahead with the heath techna bins or keep the current type.

-400 seat mod: This one hasn't been discussed, but the seats with articulating headrests (B/E Spectrum) that are being removed from the -800's will be installed on the -400's. I don't know the total number of planes that will be modded, though the first plane began the mod. today.
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