First class seat numbers will not be changed.

I wonder just how many of us have a similar story. My most recent "episode" was on a Copa flight just a couple months back. The aircraft config in F was just different enough between my outbound and return the next morning that I just plopped in to the seat I thought I was supposed to be in. Yeah, that was wrong. We all had a laugh and no big deal.

Tell that to PhillyPhlyer40. See post #11.

You'd think they'd have better things to do with their time until a questionable actually gets approved

That was an aircraft swap where seats were reassigned. The numbers on the seats in the various locations in the F cabin did not change then and they are not changing now.

Yeah, because streamlining operations and making things work more smoothly is a bad idea. :confused:

PhillyPhlyer40's issue had nothing to do with how the rows are numbered. It had to do with there being less physical seats, due to equip change. He got downgraded. I am assuming that he was on lower priced tickets, or award, and the revenue/higher revenue seats remained. Not pleasant in any case, but not relevant to this discussion of renumbering the coach class sections.

You referring to the merger? This was planned well before that was announced, and would have been implemented irrespective of the merger. What does the seat number matter, as long as it is numbered? And, if the same numbers for bulkhead and exit row happen to be the same on all narrowbody (ie consistency) isn't that a good thing? Do an aircraft swap, and you are much more likely to keep your exit row seat.

I was previously in 1EF,2EF and the switch from 738=737 still had 1/2,E/F, and still got messed up! So yes, I see that this switch may not work either! Then again, I left my pompoms at home.


Try re-reading my post. I MAINTAINED F seats, yet we were scattered throughout the cabin. So-If I had 1/2 E/F, and now have 1A, 2F, 3B, 3E, is that a downgrade???? :confused::confused: How does "fewer F seats" make the seats reserved where their are still seats after the switch get moved? Does CO have the ability to see if I was on award tix vs. someone on a paid ticket and move them to my seats, WITHOUT a downgrade??? I really dont think so, because if so, as a Plat* on a paid F ticket I wouldn't have been moved during a previous SEA-EWR mix up!




Please re-read, as above! (And this is a well-known issue)

What pom poms? I noted that for my reservations made before this change went into the system but for travel after my seats were preserved. That's not cheering so much as noting that maybe they finally have it working.

I read that as an equipment swap, not a change in numbering of the F seats.

Indeed, but the point of this move is that an equipment swap won't reassign passengers who have a seat that also exists on the new aircraft. That happened to PhillyPhlyer40 and it has happened to many others here on FT and reported many times.

Maybe I'm overly optimistic that CO is making this change because they've also figured out a way to stop reassigning passengers from seats that exist on the new aircraft. But that's my theory here.

Yes, and yes.

CAL started the process a couple of months back and had the new numbers installed, with temporary stickers placed on top of them. What you have seen as the 'old' numbers for the past couple of months were really just stickers sitting on top of the new numbers.

Last night as aircraft were parked for the night the temp stickers were removed, and the new numbers were revealed.

At least that was the plan. I sat in exit row # 20 this morning, immediately behind row #15.

DRW :cool:

That is definitely an interesting and rather :cool: bit of trivia. Way faster to have a maintenance guy walk down the aisle and pull stickers than install new tags.

Check in time today allowed me to position a non-elite into exit row seats today without paying. The 757-500 seat map shows row #'s skipping from 14 to 20.
Even though it says he is in row 21, labled an exit row and he had to agree to fulfill responsibilties that go with sitting in an exit row I have a feeling he is not in exit row tomorrow :)

The break between F and Y probably won't be an issue, but I'll bet the break before the exit rows will. "My seat is 20F and I'm at row 15, so I go 5 more rows." Wrong!

And I see they're still skipping row 13. Is that really an issue with most people? I actually tried deliberately booking row 13 on other airlines for a while to see if I'd get more empty seats next to me. It didn't help.