Ditto

The bassinet seats are often blocked until OLCI, so if you don't mind the bulkhead seats there is a slight chance they'll open up.

Concerto

This is sort of a seating question, because I am platinum and usually get offered an economy comfort seat on flights within Europe. I have booked a trip starting tomorrow with my partner, both on the same PNR, booked directly with KLM not through an OTA. Two separate check-in emails have been sent to me, one for each passenger. Is it possible to check in both passengers at the same time, or do we have to do it separately? The issue is that while I am offered a comfort seat, my partner will not be (SU base member). The other option is just to check in at the airport tomorrow morning (GVA). Will we risk being seated separately?

johan rebel

Sure, why not?

Just do it online by entering the PNR and flight number, you will then be able to check in both pax in one go.

I do this regularly for up to eight pax on one PNR, never an issue.

Johan

PeteM01

You should be demanding your free seat in economy comfort on every flight! When I travel KLM with my wife (FB Gold), I can check us both in but need to pay for economy comfort seats for her, albeit with a 50 percent discount.

Concerto

We were offered seats near the front of Economy for the first outbound flight, but we fled to the rear (at my instigation) because of a sick person. The rear was pleasantly empty. Why do they jam everyone into seats near the front? Maybe a big group missed the flight. For the Cityhopper flight to Nice we were seated together further back, perfectly ok seats, pleasant flight.

Coming back, I checked us in online and accepted the seats in row 17. The flight was totally jammed, which was less great (I offered my partner the window seat on all flights and took the middle). All the same, I yet again enjoyed the Beemster sandwich catering, which paired well with the South African Chenil Blanc.

Goldorak

I am guessing for weight balance reasons.

Concerto

The aircraft was a 737-700, which happened to fly both sectors that I flew yesterday (NCE-AMS-TXL), but with different crews. The crew were totally cool about changing seats, didn’t tell people to sit in their original seats for landing. KLM crews are generally pretty nice and cool anyway.

NZLMAN

Hi Wondering if there are opinions on the best seats for a single traveller on the 747. Was looking at 1A, but always enjoy the upper deck and not sure I will get another chance to fly one of these. I booked through Delta and their seat map shows 72A as a single seat, but SeatGuru does not. Thanks for your comments!

Ditto

There are no single seats on the upper deck, the only single seats are 1A, 4A and 4E.
While I've not travelled on the upper deck, I'd assume bulkhead seats have a bigger foot rest like on the lower deck/777 and therefore they would be my choice for a night flight.

siw

Following the answer in #510 about the IFE boxes in the B77W. I have just selected seat 14Kn as there is not alot of free seats to choose from. Does this have an IFE box reducing the space for feet?

Daleo

Hello I'll be flying from Istanbul (IST) to Amsterdam (AMS) soon on a KL1614 flight 737-800. I will have had a hair transplant so my head will be bandaged up and very sensitive. I'm also tall and wide shouldered. I'll also be travelling with my mother. I'm trying to figure out the best seats for us. Sadly Economy Comfort seats are taken but all exit row seats are available. From my understanding row 16 is best, however I'm reading that the seats are slightly narrower than other economy seats, is this true? I also understand that nothing can be stowed underneath with these seats which isn't a huge deal. Any advice please?

AHC96

My AMS-PTY flight was schedule to be a 787-10, but just got switched to a 777-200. I got moved to 6A, on the smaller J cabin. Should I stick with the seat, or should I move towards the main J cabin?

I've read reviews that the crew tend to forget about passengers seating on the smaller cabin.

arjen05

You love or you hate row 6 in the 777. There might be Y passengers passing via row 6 to get to the galley, even though the curtains are closed. This usually happens when friends and family of cabin crew are on board and when J is full, so they're seated in Y.
If there is no traffic, it is a more quiet part of J than the part in front. Staff won't forget about you.

The only thing to keep in mind is that you've lost direct aisle access with your new seat: all 787-10 seats have direct aisle access and in the 777s only the middle seats ensure you don't have to climb over someone else or vice versa. To avoid this, you might want to change to one of the middle seats (D/G). Sometimes 6D/G on the KL 777s are blocked until OLCI for babies, but you can call and ask for these seats when they're blocked.

arjen05

A question on J seat availability. One day before OLCI of my flight opens, Expertflyer shows the following availability and some seats available at the seat map. A couple of hours before OLCI, availability of booking classes stays the same, but the seat map shows 10 'blocked' seats in J.





After OLCI opened, the seat map disappears from expertflyer (as usual) but still shows in my KLM app with 0 availability. Also not possible to upgrade from Y to J with miles or cash and availability at expertflyer is now 0. So it seems that somehow right at the moment of OLCI all seats that have been blocked just before OLCI are now booked. I see this happen more often, but it could be just a coincidence that at the exact moment when OLCI opens 10 Y pax decide to take an upgrade offer, but that still doesn't explain why the seats would be blocked beforehand.

Any ideas on why just before check-in opens KL would block 10 seats in biz while there seems to be availability to book, and why this availability goes to 0 right after OLCI opens? Could these be seats from staff with a DoD upgrade that clears somehow?

AHC96

Just looking at KL757 (AMS-PTY) on 12/12/2020 and I see that the seat map looks very strange. On J, 11 seats are blocked, and on Y, all but 4 seats are available. On ExpertFlyer I'm getting the following error:

Any knows what happened? Flight possibly going to get cancelled?