Mar 4, 2016, 2:49 pm
Bombardier CRJ-700 / CR7 New Configuration with First Class & Rollout (consolidated)
Jan 16, 2019, 12:26 pm
#601
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 163
Or, at the very least, pick a numbering system, and stick to it. I grow very tired of being in seat 9A, which is the second row of MCE, only to get to the airport and find 9A is now a junk seat, and somehow all 3 rows of MCE are now full. I had an MCE seat, they swapped planes and the seat numbers changed, how do I keep losing the MCE seat and get stuck with the same numbered seat.
Jan 28, 2019, 6:29 pm
#602
Join Date: Jul 2004
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Currently on a PSA CR7 with 9F (SDF-CLT), in 1A, and it's just no fun, even for an hour. The overhead bin over the first row-and-a-half is off limits to store "emergency equipment" even though it's essentially empty. FAs said no closet to hang anything. Seat belts & tray tables are pretty tight.
Feb 5, 2019, 4:25 pm
#603
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Live: IWI; Work: DCA/Everywhere; Play: LAS/SJU/MLE
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Update from my 3 hour 51 minute ORD-SLC on a SkyWest CR7.
Short version: this exceeds my very low expectations but without the good service and seat 1A I wouldn't want to do it
Longer version: THANK YOU to AANYC1981 for the pro tip re: power outlet. Total game changer and it's doubtful I would ever have noticed it otherwise.
Food: crappy and insufficient, as expected, choice was tex mex salad (read: chopped up romaine and weak tomato with sparse chicken) or croissant sandwich -- chose this, it had real turkey and three slivers of green apple (one very very brown), a weird clump of butter (I removed it), one lettuce leaf, and no condiments of any sort. I ate the top half of the croissant with the turkey and two non-rotten apple slices. 2-pack of Milanos came on the side.
Seat: 1A was fine, not as tight as I feared. There's a little ledge to rest your left foot. Seat belt and tray table have a little more room at the gut than PSA's CR7/CR9s.
Service: Really spectacular. One of the best crews I've had in a while. Exuberant PDB, greetings by name, refills, conversation.
Short version: this exceeds my very low expectations but without the good service and seat 1A I wouldn't want to do it
Longer version: THANK YOU to AANYC1981 for the pro tip re: power outlet. Total game changer and it's doubtful I would ever have noticed it otherwise.
Food: crappy and insufficient, as expected, choice was tex mex salad (read: chopped up romaine and weak tomato with sparse chicken) or croissant sandwich -- chose this, it had real turkey and three slivers of green apple (one very very brown), a weird clump of butter (I removed it), one lettuce leaf, and no condiments of any sort. I ate the top half of the croissant with the turkey and two non-rotten apple slices. 2-pack of Milanos came on the side.
Seat: 1A was fine, not as tight as I feared. There's a little ledge to rest your left foot. Seat belt and tray table have a little more room at the gut than PSA's CR7/CR9s.
Service: Really spectacular. One of the best crews I've had in a while. Exuberant PDB, greetings by name, refills, conversation.
Jun 11, 2019, 8:10 pm
#604
Join Date: Mar 2005
Programs: UA 1K and PP, AA PPro (3MM, former CK), Marriott Ambassador and LTT, Uber One
Posts: 1,347
A FA told just told me that the entirety of bin 1 is reserved for emergency equipment. I have never heard this on dozens of CR7 flights in 1A. She is citing the sticker that says “PED fire containment bag and gloves located here” as the proof that nothing else can go in that bin. But the sticker doesn’t say “only”. There is plenty of room in the bin for other bags without impinging on the emergency equipment. Is this something new, or is she mistaken? Where are these types of rules documented?
Last edited by ikwia; Jun 11, 2019 at 8:18 pm
Jun 11, 2019, 8:52 pm
#605
Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: CMH
Programs: BA Gold, AA Plat, NK $9 fare club
Posts: 666
Issue Clarification
A FA told just told me that the entirety of bin 1 is reserved for emergency equipment. I have never heard this on dozens of CR7 flights in 1A. She is citing the sticker that says “PED fire containment bag and gloves located here” as the proof that nothing else can go in that bin. But the sticker doesn’t say “only”. There is plenty of room in the bin for other bags without impinging on the emergency equipment. Is this something new, or is she mistaken? Where are these types of rules documented?
Jun 11, 2019, 9:31 pm
#606
Join Date: Mar 2005
Programs: UA 1K and PP, AA PPro (3MM, former CK), Marriott Ambassador and LTT, Uber One
Posts: 1,347
Jun 11, 2019, 10:17 pm
#607
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: DCA
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A FA told just told me that the entirety of bin 1 is reserved for emergency equipment. I have never heard this on dozens of CR7 flights in 1A. She is citing the sticker that says “PED fire containment bag and gloves located here” as the proof that nothing else can go in that bin. But the sticker doesn’t say “only”. There is plenty of room in the bin for other bags without impinging on the emergency equipment. Is this something new, or is she mistaken? Where are these types of rules documented?
Jun 12, 2019, 7:18 am
#608
Join Date: Mar 2005
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Great info, thanks. There was no divider in this bin for sure. I’m wondering if some have dividers already added and I’ve flown on such planes in the past...that wouldn’t be a detail that would stand out to me because it isn’t uncommon to see such arrangements in overhead bins.
Jun 12, 2019, 2:18 pm
#609
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: ASE
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Sooo...didn't I read somewhere that AA was going to go to a 9-seat F-cabin on these birds or was that only on certain aircraft/operators? I'm on a Skywest bird at the moment with a 6-seat F cabin and very thankful to have been upgraded on this packed flight.
Jun 12, 2019, 2:27 pm
#610
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: DCA
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Posts: 428
Skywest birds are the only ones with some 6F. These should be converted at some point to 9F to match the Envoy/PSA birds.
Sep 2, 2019, 9:24 am
#611
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: CMI
Programs: AA Plt 2MM
Posts: 226
I've got a flight coming up on a C700 ORD-YUL. It's showing a config with the first row of Y as row 4 and the exit row as row 12. Seatguru has no useful information. Is there floor storage for rows 4 & 12 c/d? Is it an arm tray table in each? Any info appreciated.
Sep 6, 2019, 7:32 pm
#612
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That's likely a Skywest, former United bird. There will be floor storage for 4A and 4C and D but not 4B. Tray tables are in the armrest.
Sep 6, 2019, 11:38 pm
#614
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Flew on an ex-UA (N753SK) aircraft today. I was pleasantly surprised to find a 9 seat F-cabin AND power at my seat in F. Still, DL has a WAY better config on their CR7's...but this is a step up, for sure.