Seat blocking for Covid / Coronavirus (consolidated thread)
Relaxed seating policies — linkIn response to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) social distancing guidelines, American will temporarily relax seating policies for customers on most flights and reduce onboard food and beverage service levels.To encourage social distancing, gate agents and flight attendants will be able to proactively reassign seats to create more space between customers beginning March 24. Once on board — provided there aren’t any aircraft weight or balance restrictions — customers can move to another seat within their ticketed cabin subject to availability. American will also block 50% of all middle seats and all seats adjacent to Flight Attendant jump seats on every flight. |
wish AA would block the middle seats all the time
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Originally Posted by fotographer
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wish AA would block the middle seats all the time
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I would think that if the airlines want to continue to fly during this they should be required to block off all middle seats. On RJ flights block off aisle seats.
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Originally Posted by AA2070
(Post 32230094)
Way back in the day (like the days of the Bistro Bags, which is an unfathomable amenity in Y now), AA used to block the seats next to EXPs. They could still be sold, but they were the last seats to be assigned.
BA still tries to block the seat next to you if flying coach (as a OWE).. |
With load factors these days every passenger will have an entire seat section to themselves.
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Originally Posted by AA2070
(Post 32230094)
Way back in the day (like the days of the Bistro Bags, which is an unfathomable amenity in Y now), AA used to block the seats next to EXPs. They could still be sold, but they were the last seats to be assigned.
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Originally Posted by AA2070
(Post 32230094)
Way back in the day (like the days of the Bistro Bags, which is an unfathomable amenity in Y now), AA used to block the seats next to EXPs. They could still be sold, but they were the last seats to be assigned.
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Originally Posted by aztimm
(Post 32230690)
Shortly after the merger, I remember flying on a few AA flights that had the middle seats blocked for elites. There was a tray covering the seat, so it would have been very difficult to seat a passenger there (you would have needed tools to take the tray out). This was in Oct 2014.
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Originally Posted by AA2070
(Post 32230094)
Way back in the day (like the days of the Bistro Bags, which is an unfathomable amenity in Y now), AA used to block the seats next to EXPs. They could still be sold, but they were the last seats to be assigned.
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Please be patient during this difficult time
Originally Posted by JDiver
(Post 32228658)
Relaxed seating policies — linkIn response to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) social distancing guidelines, American will temporarily relax seating policies for customers on most flights and reduce onboard food and beverage service levels.To encourage social distancing, gate agents and flight attendants will be able to proactively reassign seats to create more space between customers beginning March 24. Once on board — provided there aren’t any aircraft weight or balance restrictions — customers can move to another seat within their ticketed cabin subject to availability. American will also block 50% of all middle seats and all seats adjacent to Flight Attendant jump seats on every flight. If you do want to change a seat, please ask the agent BEFORE boarding (should always be an option even before these times) if there is someone seated next/near you. With the much lower load factors on many flights, social distancing can affect weight and balance calculations for some aircraft. Asking the Gate agent to change your seat before boarding, allows the computer system to ensure the aircraft maintains proper weight and balance during taxi, takeoff, and landing. |
We can't sell the seats, so lets do some PR. It's all BS.
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Caveat - I don't think anyways save for critical employees (healthcare, etc.) and funerals should be flying. Also caveat that I'm glad I'm not running an airline right now.
WIth that said, AA has eliminated any food or beverage service on flights under 2200 miles as part of this. Delta has adjusted their food service to be pre-packaged snacks and meals, and bottled water. Two different ways to adapt to the changes and the CDC guidelines with two very different customer experiences. |
Originally Posted by PBIGuy
(Post 32234611)
Caveat - I don't think anyways save for critical employees (healthcare, etc.) and funerals should be flying. Also caveat that I'm glad I'm not running an airline right now.
WIth that said, AA has eliminated any food or beverage service on flights under 2200 miles as part of this. Delta has adjusted their food service to be pre-packaged snacks and meals, and bottled water. Two different ways to adapt to the changes and the CDC guidelines with two very different customer experiences. |
I heard last night that domestic air travel was down 89% last week over the same week last year. I’m surprised it isn’t worse. In any event, if you’re still traveling, social distancing onboard is probably easy to carry off.
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