Brendan88

I cannot confirm its the same as on the A330-200 but Ii would exspect so.
On the A332 I know for sure that seats A and J have the boxes (B and H dont).
Seatguru claims (for the A332) that D, F and G also have the box (E doesnt), I cant confirm.

I'd personaly go for B or H, mainly because of the box but I also prefer aisle seats.

LY777

Thank you

LY777

When will the retrofit be complete?

johan rebel

Your guess is as good as mine, or anybody else's.

Johan

YYCCL3

In case anyone cares other than me, here is the answer

The baby bassinet positions in the new WBC on 772 are at 1DG and 6DG. I also discovered that if you request a bassinet, your seat selections through any method are locked to these 4 seats.

tcook052

Just wanted to report back to add that this was exactly how the underseat looked on the KLM flight I flew on so was happy I'd opted for aisle B seat. The other person seated in the window A was on his cell commenting how the seat had a box under it and inwardly chuckled to myself and was glad I'd changed locations as it takes away almost half of your foot space. Here's my photo:



On the return flew in an aisle on the other side of the same A330-200 but found the box smaller under the window J seat FWIW.

floridagal23

We will be flying from AMS to JRO on the 330-300 in business class. It is a morning flight. What are the best seats? Cabin is mostly open right now. We selected row 3 in the middle as a placeholder so we both have aisle access but I read that the left aisle of row 3 may be used as a crew rest area with the curtain which may be visually annoying. Thank you!

johan rebel

If you are one of those who enjoys looking down at the world from above, then AMS-JRO can be a really nice flight. It of course all depends on the weather and the exact route, but you may expect such highlights as the Rhine; the Bodensee (Lake Constance); the Alps; Lago di Garda or Lago Maggiore; Rome or Athens; the Mediterranean; the Sahara; the Nile; and Khartoum. Well worth a window seat, in my opinion.

AMS-JNB is even better, by the way. It includes many of the above on the European side (albeit usually Genoa and Sicilly instead of Rome), but you also get the spectacular Tibesti Massif, and usually reach the Intertropical Convergence Zone just before sunset, when the thunderstorms are at their prettiest.

Johan

JBD

I had selected seats 1K and 1J on the LAX-AMS flight on the 747 Combi when I ticketed this trip in August. (The trip is to take place in 12 days).

I've logged onto my account from time to time since then, and gone into the select seats screen so I could check if there'd been an equipment change or if I lost my seat assignments, etc.

I just checked and it's still showing the 747 Combi, and by our names it says:BUT, it no longer gives me the option to select seats which is how I'd been pulling up the seat map. Instead, to the right of the screen it shows: And when you click on that it shows:
So it this anything to be concerned about?

JBD

Regarding my post above - my concern is that my seats aren't actually confirmed, since it shows that wording "during check-in you can again choose or change seats". Could they have been taken for Crew Rest or for a Fire Marshall?

I tried to find on the KLM site a way to see a seat map, thinking that if the flight is now full that could be why I don't have the option to change seats, but only saw that you need to do it through My Trip - and that way yields the result I described in the above post.

So I tried doing a dummy booking in business class, but that didn't give me the option to select a seat and view a seat map either.

So, I just got a trial subscription to EF and see that currently there are 7 seats marked available in business:
3K
4K
72K
73K
77K
78J 78K

I'm posting here to try to find out if it's normal that at 12 days before the flight you lose the ability to change your seat or even look at the seat map?

Would any of you frequent KLM flyers be concerned at this point that your seat assignments weren't confirmed?

TLVtraveler

Not to worry, it sometimes happens with KL (I have no idea why but maybe some of our forum experts can pitch in).
As long as EF shows your seats as taken you should be fine.

Regarding crew rests and air marshals, they will usually be on the upper deck near the cockpit for obvious reasons and not in the nose of the lower deck of the 747

JBD

Thank you so much for the reply, your words relieve me greatly.

And yeah, really dumb assumption on my part with the crew rests. And I just noticed I didn't even write the correct kind of Marshal, who wouldn't be sitting there anyway (I've been re-reading Fahrenheit 451 and must have fire on my mind!)

Thanks again kind stranger. ^

thoshoe

I am about to book KL 791 AMS-GRU on 21/01/16. According to KLM.com it will be a 777-300. When I click on the aircraft info tab on KLM's website it directs me to the seat map which shows the new World Business Class config. However, if I scroll down it shows the old one. How can I find out which one it will be?

Brendan88

When selecting the seat during booking you can see if its the new or old config. I checked your flighta and it's showing the new config at the moment.

thoshoe

Thank you