Flying for Fun

1B for me! 😃 I wonder if it was a non-rev. Seats 1A & 1B face the FA when seated in the jumpseat. 1A would give slightly more protection with the half width bulkhead at the entry door. 1B has full exposure to the FA.

James

anteater

I have been in 1A on the E175 for the same flights and sometimes I’ll get 1A or I’ll get bumped at the gate and 1A/1C are empty. In either case, FA sat alone in 1D.

I wish they would make something policy and stick with it. If I can’t pay for 1A I’d rather sit in PE.

Kacee

Here is AS's response to my complaint about the overbooked F cabin:

All I can is wow. The honesty is truly refreshing. This is great customer service. Now if they can just get the schedule stabilized . . . .

Bellerina

Flight 6/12 and 6/14 sea-sjc oak-sea
F was 6/12 full on E175. I had an email about a travel advisory that they might not be able to socially distance on one of my flights, but I had no issues. Even Economy looked free for everyone to socially distance where necessary.
It again looked like 1C was occupied but it was empty. FA sat in normal seats.

Xrayman

getting on a mid con flight now on an E75. Was
placed in 3C next to 3D occupied. I suspect automated seating choice. I changed to the single 3A.

under normal times 2C and 3C are my typical first choices on a Boeing.

PDXPremier

I got the same email for a flight tomorrow....I think AS is going to barely squeak by with the seat blocking through July. I think this is not only unsustainable, but also a major operational headache for AS.

Kacee

Presumably they have just tweaked their normal booking algorithm, but demand is different from anything they've ever seen before, and the algorithm is not predicting accurately. They're not doing very well with their scheduling either. Understand these are challenging times for the airline, but it's a real hassle from the perspective of the passenger who's trying to make plans.

Bellerina

FA yesterday said they reduced their flights so much and put so many FAs on leave that they now have not enough seats on many commuter flights and not enough FAs to add more. So they're either going to quickly reduce the social distancing available on the flights or start adding more flights. I suspect it might be a bit of both. However, given the rise in cases, I do hope they can still do the social distancing on most flights.

Funny thing, when I got that travel advisory notice, I was booked into 2A on the E175, so there was no possible way there could have been someone next to me. When I spoke to the customer service agent, she couldn't see any conflict for me either. It was very strange. I assumed they just sent it to everyone on the flight regardless of class.

ctporter

I would LOVE to be sure that the seat next to me will be blocked for my SEA TUC flight on Thursday. When I booked all the PE and FC seats were taken, I was left with rows 10-13, 18, and 20 to choose from. I have not sat that far back in years on an AS flight. I suspect that it is due to seat blocking that my choices were so limited. Hopefully, I will be able to sit semi sideways to have enough leg room.

NoLaGent

I noticed this am that WN has extended middle seat blocking through Sept. 30th, I'll be curious to see if AS matches this policy extension.

PDXPremier

My guess is that AS won't WANT to do this since they're obviously having operational issues right now with keeping the middle seats empty, but they will feel forced to if the competition extends the empty middle seat policy. It feels like we're getting to the point where they could almost run a few flights a day between PDX-SEA for employees only....lol.

jrl767

I'm probably not going to fly it, but I have SEA-LAX on an E75 on 8 July; only the B seats in coach show as blocked (all aisles were blocked when I booked a couple months ago) ... return 739 has all middles blocked as expected

Eurynom0s

Southwest isn't physically putting anything in the middle seats to keep people from using them, right? I thought they were just underselling the flights and taking advantage of their boarding/seating policy to let people sort it out themselves as they board.

scklumb

I’m currently in an E175. There are 8 in first. But row 1 is completely empty and 2D. I asked the agent if they will fill 1A and 1D. She no we can only put 8 people in first. So even though couples are flying together and seated together They will not fill those other seats.

Kacee

The policy is designed to ensure that you can sit in a window or aisle with an empty middle. It's resulted in my return to flying WN after several years of studiously avoiding them.