PDXPremier

I enjoy looking out the window, but always want the freedom to get up to use the lav without disturbing my fellow passenger(s) so that means I typically choose an aisle with the exception of this plane....1A is my go-to seat if available because you have a great view...ok legroom (not nearly as much as 1B), but best of all, you can get up without disturbing the person in 1B. If I'm with my kids (who can't yet sit in the exit row), my go-to row is 3. They haven't always been using the back door but they always use the front door so you're first on and off for sure in row 1....back in row 20 you just need to hope they don't decide to only use door 1. I heard one of the flight attendants (I think) say that if they are parked next to a jet, they can't use the rear door.

tusphotog

Here's another piece of trivia. Seat 1A is not considered an exit row.

No idea what would happen if you tried to put a kid there.

RAD_PDX

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NoLaGent

Is the window 2E? Whatever the Letter is, I like the 2nd row (which is really the 1st row) on the right side, window...

RAD_PDX

Technically yes, however it is a tiny window built into the emergency exit door.

NoLaGent

That is correct, but I like it better than 1A as it has more legroom and you don't get knocked by other pax like you do in 1B or 2D

PDXPremier

That has got to be one of the worst window seats on the plane....legroom is ok in row 2 (right side), but the window is perfectly positioned in 1A.

RAD_PDX

I would second this. I grabbed 2E at check-in once, before I was an MVP and could select it at booking, and it was pretty terrible. I should have realized there was a reason the elites hadn't selected it yet. Hopefully 1A is not as bad (although it was just claimed to have less leg room than 2E, so we shall see).

NoLaGent

It does, considerably so. I'm 6'2, so I value legroom more than anything. I find 1A to be painful after more than 45 minutes.

And I blame it all on that mini-bulkhead.

VarianceHammer

I'm a fan of the back row aisle seats. Skip past all the old folks and college kids who are terrible at boarding, make a good first impression with the flight attendant, and I get moved to my own row if there's one available more often than not.

Also for larger folks, the aisle seatbelts are marginally more slack than the window ones.

williwaw

I agree on this - back of the bus is better on the Q400's. Though sometimes they can't unload from the back and then you have to wait awhile. But it's only happened once for me.

PDXpress

Any idea why Horizon letters Q400 seats this way? The E75s are A, B, C, D which is, uh, how the alphabet works.

johnp012001

Dates back to the Q200s, maybe before, when the last row had 5 seats, v this ABCDE and the C seat had the most legroom on the plane!

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