Originally Posted by baglady (Post 12915533)

Hypothetical situation ;). A traveller is booked in the exit row (RJ so no upgrade opportunity) and they break a bone in their foot; requiring wearing a boot. Pax is still willing and able to assist in case of emergency. Will pax get booted from the exit row? Co.com and ask Alex are unclear. WWTBD?

Originally Posted by baglady (Post 12915533)

Hypothetical situation ;). A traveller is booked in the exit row (RJ so no upgrade opportunity) and they break a bone in their foot; requiring wearing a boot. Pax is still willing and able to assist in case of emergency. Will pax get booted from the exit row? Co.com and ask Alex are unclear. WWTBD?

Originally Posted by xyzzy

We just ticketed an award to HKG. We've got two longhaul segments in J, ORD-NRT on ANA and BKK-LAX on Thai. This evening I decided to look at the seats these carriers offer. Are these carriers living in the stone age? ANA has a 60" pitch in J on most of its aircraft. Some aircraft have only 58"! They don't publish the number of degrees of recline, but the pictures on their web site with the huge comforter make it seem to me as if they're trying to hide something. It's nowhere even close to being lie flat. The Thai seats don't seem much better. They claim 170 degrees, but if you look at the picture you can see that that's just the top half of the seat. The bottom half just drops off like a cliff. Sure, these will be better than economy, but I think both will make me pine for the much-closer-to-flat and much maligned CO seats. Talk about taking the shine off of my excitement about ticketing this... :rolleyes:

ANA seat
Thai seat

Originally Posted by baglady (Post 12915533)

Hypothetical situation ;). A traveller is booked in the exit row (RJ so no upgrade opportunity) and they break a bone in their foot; requiring wearing a boot. Pax is still willing and able to assist in case of emergency. Will pax get booted from the exit row? Co.com and ask Alex are unclear. WWTBD?

Originally Posted by icurhere2 (Post 12915542)

You can look at the virtual controls for Thai for sleeping.

Originally Posted by xyzzy (Post 12915510)

We just ticketed an award to HKG. We've got two longhaul segments in J, ORD-NRT on ANA and BKK-LAX on Thai. This evening I decided to look at the seats these carriers offer. Are these carriers living in the stone age? ANA has a 60" pitch in J on most of its aircraft. Some aircraft have only 58"! They don't publish the number of degrees of recline, but the pictures on their web site with the huge comforter make it seem to me as if they're trying to hide something. It's nowhere even close to being lie flat. The Thai seats don't seem much better. They claim 170 degrees, but if you look at the picture you can see that that's just the top half of the seat. The bottom half just drops off like a cliff. Sure, these will be better than economy, but I think both will make me pine for the much-closer-to-flat and much maligned CO seats. Talk about taking the shine off of my excitement about ticketing this... :rolleyes:

ANA seat
Thai seat

Originally Posted by rolov (Post 12915557)

The nh seat is not bad, I did nrt-jfk this year and alcotter can probably comment on tg seat. Also note that new biz will be installed soon on jfk route

Originally Posted by icurhere2

I think that could be better than seeing the movie.

Originally Posted by sfogate (Post 12915380)

My sink is no longer clogged. Good thing I wasn't paying for this visit because the two guys spent over an hour here taking their sweet time.

On the Christmas gift buying front: all the stocking stuffers and two main gifts are purchased. I'm hitting The Mall tomorrow morning for the rest of the loot.

Next project: trying to figure out how high we have to place the tree so that the dog doesn't remove the ornaments/lights. It might be easier to buy a 2 ft fake tree and hang it from the ceiling. :D

Originally Posted by bdjohns1 (Post 12915574)

Why not UA ORD-NRT?

Originally Posted by rolov (Post 12915582)

Possibly

Originally Posted by baglady (Post 12915533)

Hypothetical situation ;). A traveller is booked in the exit row (RJ so no upgrade opportunity) and they break a bone in their foot; requiring wearing a boot. Pax is still willing and able to assist in case of emergency. Will pax get booted from the exit row? Co.com and ask Alex are unclear. WWTBD?

Originally Posted by icurhere2 (Post 12915549)

Sorry about the broken bone. Move the pax before the pax is involuntarily moved.

Originally Posted by xyzzy (Post 12915553)

If the FA/GA are paying attention then yes, I think the traveler would get booted. I wouldn't count on them paying attention, though, particularly if that passenger boarded along with everyone else and did not require a wheelchair.

Originally Posted by cheepneezy (Post 12915561)

We're going to put you in a bubble.

Hope it's not too ouchie.

Originally Posted by xyzzy (Post 12915568)

I did. That's when I began to get worried! The link I clicked on was this one, which touts their new seat. Note the :rolleyes: inducing drop-off below the waist.