Can’t get seat assignment on Delta One?
Jun 15, 2022, 6:55 am
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Jun 17, 2022, 8:22 pm
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As advised upthread; the only agent who was able to touch my PNR for a seat assignment was the gate agent who cleared me off the standby list about an hour before departure. She was nice enough to call the SkyClub so they could print my boarding pass for me.
Jun 19, 2022, 3:58 pm
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It seems like a waste of good real estate to give resting pilots windows. Even with travel now being mostly leisure (so that more people are traveling together), I've observed that there end to be several seats in the center section of D1 that are the last to be chosen.
Jun 19, 2022, 4:00 pm
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Per the gate agent, she just needed to confirm that the pilot was going to use 5A for our flight before assigning seats. I sat in 5D and there were snap buttons on the overhead bin that I assume are used to fix a curtain for alternate crew rest seating. I just didn't want 6A due to the lack of a window.
Jun 19, 2022, 6:12 pm
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Per the gate agent, she just needed to confirm that the pilot was going to use 5A for our flight before assigning seats. I sat in 5D and there were snap buttons on the overhead bin that I assume are used to fix a curtain for alternate crew rest seating. I just didn't want 6A due to the lack of a window.
Jun 20, 2022, 12:23 am
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It seems like a waste of good real estate to give resting pilots windows. Even with travel now being mostly leisure (so that more people are traveling together), I've observed that there end to be several seats in the center section of D1 that are the last to be chosen.
Jun 20, 2022, 7:02 am
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No one is beside someone else's window in a 1-2-1 configuration and those heavy curtains around the pilot rest seats are designed to block light and sound.
Jun 20, 2022, 12:57 pm
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I think the curtains are the answer to the point you raise.
Jun 20, 2022, 3:54 pm
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Some aircraft types have pilot rest "nests" so that the curtained off D1 seats shouldn't be necessary unless a pilot is deadheading to an assignment (so that there are more pilots on board who need rest than there are crew "nest" spaces).
Jun 21, 2022, 11:37 am
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It seems like a waste of good real estate to give resting pilots windows. Even with travel now being mostly leisure (so that more people are traveling together), I've observed that there end to be several seats in the center section of D1 that are the last to be chosen.