UA Economy Plus Seats
Jun 23, 2003, 9:27 am
#17
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Tall Bloke:
When I flew trans-atlantic and beyond on United, I couldn't get the seats allocated at the time of booking. Couldn't even get the United System to take my BD number (let alone recognise it as *G).
Spoke to United Ticket Desk at LHR who re-allocated me seats in E+</font>
When I flew trans-atlantic and beyond on United, I couldn't get the seats allocated at the time of booking. Couldn't even get the United System to take my BD number (let alone recognise it as *G).
Spoke to United Ticket Desk at LHR who re-allocated me seats in E+</font>
Jun 23, 2003, 9:55 pm
#18
Join Date: Mar 2003
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I logged into ual.com and came across the following E+ seats open on your flight:
8 D E
9 A B C D E F
11 & 12 D E F
13 - 16 A B C D E F
I would recommend just phoning up reservations, tell them your bmi status and specifically request one of the above seats (8D and 9F are probably the two best seats on the plane in economy, but be warned that during boarding everyone files past you from the door located right by 9A).
As an additional note, the 757s are comfortable, but hardly the best plane in the UA fleet... if possible, you may be slightly more comfortable aboard one of the Airbus, 747 or 767 flights operating that day.
Safe travels!
8 D E
9 A B C D E F
11 & 12 D E F
13 - 16 A B C D E F
I would recommend just phoning up reservations, tell them your bmi status and specifically request one of the above seats (8D and 9F are probably the two best seats on the plane in economy, but be warned that during boarding everyone files past you from the door located right by 9A).
As an additional note, the 757s are comfortable, but hardly the best plane in the UA fleet... if possible, you may be slightly more comfortable aboard one of the Airbus, 747 or 767 flights operating that day.
Safe travels!
Jun 24, 2003, 1:27 am
#19
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: London,UK
Posts: 38
Many thanks for the response! I have now managed to secure 11A further to numerous phone calls. Basically I had to wait until I was able to speak to an agent who could be bothered to ask the UA helpdesk to assign the seat to me. The issue was the fact that I am using miles and that Apollo chooses to ignore any FF cards on award bookings! Would have much preferred to fly on the 1500 763 but no seats available :-( They said they would not preassign Exit row seats as I did try to get 9A! Thanks for your help anyway...very much looking forward to this trip!
dcGs
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Jun 26, 2003, 3:46 am
#20
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by Wingnut:
Interestingly, while ual.com shows seats avaiable, www.seatmap.com for eg shows E+ as full by default.</font>
Interestingly, while ual.com shows seats avaiable, www.seatmap.com for eg shows E+ as full by default.</font>
Also, even if you don't have *S/G it doesn't hurt to ask on day of departure. I even got my parents into E+ who were on cheapie tickets with no status by asking the agent to put in a seating request for specific seats in E+ - which worked!
[This message has been edited by LHR Tim (edited 06-26-2003).]