mot29

I understand why 10 is good, but if I can have an empty seat next to me -- then a center aisle is pretty nice too. And so far, I've been pretty lucky.
tom

Sam Drucker

I have a trans-pacific itinerary coming up on four A330-200 segments. I was able to book my seats within an hour or so from when seat assignments first became available on these segments. My preferred seating on the A330-200 is 10A/B or 10 H/J. I went to book my outbound segments, and found these four seats "occupied" on the seat assignment map. Okay, maybe someone beat me to the punch. I settled for 10 C and 10G in the center section, although I prefer being near a window.

A couple of weeks later, seat assignments opened for the return legs. I booked them within hour(s) of when they opened. Again, 10A/B and 10H/J were "occupied" on two diferent flight segments. I also noted on these four flight segments that 29C/D/F/G were also "occupied". I watched the seat maps in the first few days of being open, and saw very little other activity. Now, I smelled a rat.

On my next occasion when I was talking with reservations, I asked about the odd pattern I was seeing in seat bookings. They confirmed when I asked about these seats that they are now blocked off because they are bassinet seats. Pre-Blocking these seats is a change in policy from my experiences in January and May 2005.

Although Row 10 on the A330-300 is an exit row, maybe they are doing the same thing?

P.S.: I would happily sit in row 29 on the A330-200 or -300 IF they had power at those rows.

gqsewertube

Does anyone have experience with 41G and 42G on the A330? Is it much more room? NW cannot see my AS status yet and won't let me book the exit rows. This is the next best thing?

ehe123

I assume that you would want 10B or 10H. Both 10A and 10J have diminished leg room due to the door.

cfischer

I still find 10J the best for red-eyes DTW-Europe, you can lean against the wall.

cfischer

ever tried adding your own number for your parents reservation; it sure worked for me more than once ; after you select the seats you change the WP# back. Doesn't work all the time, but it's worth a try. I am always surprised how easy it is the get Exit row seating, those should be the first Elite seats to go.

rtarbuck

10A AND 10J do have door there but it does not intrude badly at all. And the forward room is huge. They are better than anything else in Y other than the Band H Seats. Same true in 29. No power ports back there though.

BT

(We are talking 330-300 here. Row 10 is bulkhead in 330-200.)

cardesigner2000

Also prefer 10 A/J. Had a 10B seat and had my feet trampled on and carry-on baggage bumped into me while boarding. The FA's were very busy chatting/arguing in the galley which made it hard to sleep also.

timo469

I have had 10 A on 2 round-trips to Paris and one round-trip to London in the last few weeks, and will have it again to Paris on December 29th, with my mom in 10B.

Cheers

Timo

Derrico

lol will be on SEA-AMS tommorrow with my mother... 10A-10B.

What can we say.. Flyertalkers know where to sit.

SpinzCity

>>>I still find 10J the best for red-eyes DTW-Europe, you can lean against the wall.

I like 10A better but that's because I have a compressed vertebra in my lower right back, so that leaning left is better. But I STILL bring a full-size $3.99 K-Mart pillow on board to press into the window-well and fuselage to serve as Cloud 9.

gqsewertube

WOW! Thats high class. I use a $2.60ish Wal-Mart pillow. I love all the funny looks I get on the RJ or 737 connecting to the long haul flight. Silly people....

crimguy1976

I was able to reserve 10A for a trip w/in the next two months. Don't know if i'll keep it or change it to 29A..but it was there.

Wiley

10A totally rocks! and even comes with a footrest...aka, the door thing that sticks out! i've hogged that seat a few times on DTW-FRA-DTW in the last month.

cfischer

got into some nasty discussions with FAs about that footrest . I agree, it makes a nice footrest, but not all FAs like to see it.