Vueling XL & Excellence seats
Jun 18, 2019, 12:34 pm
#32
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Jun 18, 2019, 4:23 pm
#33
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yes, abcdef all bulkhead, not so much room to stretch your legs, but not much obstructing your knees. If you take an aisle seat you can always stretch into the aisle a bit... rows 2,3,4 have decent legroom, I'm 6ft2in and find the additional legroom to be sufficient! That or an exit row of course...
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Jun 18, 2019, 4:31 pm
#34
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yes, abcdef all bulkhead, not so much room to stretch your legs, but not much obstructing your knees. If you take an aisle seat you can always stretch into the aisle a bit... rows 2,3,4 have decent legroom, I'm 6ft2in and find the additional legroom to be sufficient! That or an exit row of course...
Jun 22, 2019, 5:06 pm
#35
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A few things to update here as Vueling are constantly changing their fare/product names and conditions.
They now have three levels:
Basic - this is exactly what you think. No checked bag, no seat selection, no, changes, no nothing.
Optima - seat selection (in a "bad" seat), checked bag, some flexibility.
TimeFlex - same as Optima but with changeable ticket, fast track and priority boarding. NOTE that you will now still have to pay for better seats. Rows 2-4 are called Space Plus and cost 20€. Row 1 is called SpaceOne and costs 25€. There is no longer a blocked middle, there is no longer any catering. They can and will pack them in 3 across. Also note that these Space One seats have the tray tables in the armrests, so they are about 5cm narrower than the other seats. The only way to guarantee a free middle is to buy it yourself. So yes, this is worse in literally every way.
I'll be very glad when they move on from this miserable pricing and onto whatever new shiny thing distracts their marketing team next, hopefully something that resembles a normal, crap European J seat.
They now have three levels:
Basic - this is exactly what you think. No checked bag, no seat selection, no, changes, no nothing.
Optima - seat selection (in a "bad" seat), checked bag, some flexibility.
TimeFlex - same as Optima but with changeable ticket, fast track and priority boarding. NOTE that you will now still have to pay for better seats. Rows 2-4 are called Space Plus and cost 20€. Row 1 is called SpaceOne and costs 25€. There is no longer a blocked middle, there is no longer any catering. They can and will pack them in 3 across. Also note that these Space One seats have the tray tables in the armrests, so they are about 5cm narrower than the other seats. The only way to guarantee a free middle is to buy it yourself. So yes, this is worse in literally every way.
I'll be very glad when they move on from this miserable pricing and onto whatever new shiny thing distracts their marketing team next, hopefully something that resembles a normal, crap European J seat.
Jun 23, 2019, 6:21 am
#36
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Jun 26, 2019, 9:51 am
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Hoping I can put this tangent in. We're showing as Optima on Vueling BCN-FCO and back in conjunction with LEVEL U.S.-BCN on an IB award. As I understand we could print boarding passes now for the August-September VY flights. Is there any downside to doing so? The main area where I'm thinking it could come up: now we're willing to deal with the normal seats for these short flights in conjunction with flights in Row 1 on Level, but if we find them intolerable on the outbound, could we upgrade to more legroom on the return after printing the BPs, assuming better seats are available at that point, three weeks before the return?
Jul 11, 2019, 8:51 am
#38
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Hoping I can put this tangent in. We're showing as Optima on Vueling BCN-FCO and back in conjunction with LEVEL U.S.-BCN on an IB award. As I understand we could print boarding passes now for the August-September VY flights. Is there any downside to doing so? The main area where I'm thinking it could come up: now we're willing to deal with the normal seats for these short flights in conjunction with flights in Row 1 on Level, but if we find them intolerable on the outbound, could we upgrade to more legroom on the return after printing the BPs, assuming better seats are available at that point, three weeks before the return?
That said, the normal seats are...fine for an LCC on a short flight like BCN-FCO. You get maybe another inch of pitch going for the SPACE seats at the front of the cabin. Probably not worth it on that short flight.
Nov 17, 2019, 12:10 am
#39
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Is it possible to get into boarding group 1 or 2 without purchasing a TimeFlex ticket or SpaceOne seat? I don't see a way to purchase priority boarding as a standalone benefit yet most of the plane seems to be in group 2 or higher. I purchased a walk-up ticket on the app while at LGW (literally, after an EasyJet cancellation) and there was no escape from group 3 despite the eye-watering cost of the ticket.
(Legroom in the bad seats was tolerable for 1.5hr or less, I'd say - same as Wizzair).
(Legroom in the bad seats was tolerable for 1.5hr or less, I'd say - same as Wizzair).
Nov 17, 2019, 7:36 am
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Is it possible to get into boarding group 1 or 2 without purchasing a TimeFlex ticket or SpaceOne seat? I don't see a way to purchase priority boarding as a standalone benefit yet most of the plane seems to be in group 2 or higher. I purchased a walk-up ticket on the app while at LGW (literally, after an EasyJet cancellation) and there was no escape from group 3 despite the eye-watering cost of the ticket.
(Legroom in the bad seats was tolerable for 1.5hr or less, I'd say - same as Wizzair).
(Legroom in the bad seats was tolerable for 1.5hr or less, I'd say - same as Wizzair).
Seats are assigned for free from the back forward, so ironically those being cheap are going to have a "priority" when boarding over somebody who paid to choose a seat near the front.
I believe I was offered Priority Boarding when I checked in for a recent VY flight, but didn't need it because I was travelling very light.
Nov 17, 2019, 1:25 pm
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Good to know, thank you.
I mean, I’d have paid the extra if they’d let me but 🤷.♂️ It all worked out fine in the end. Except for the interesting experience of a guy behind me who continued his mobile phone conservation not just during the takeoff roll but as we were in the climb. He was genuinely perplexed when the signal broke up.
I mean, I’d have paid the extra if they’d let me but 🤷.♂️ It all worked out fine in the end. Except for the interesting experience of a guy behind me who continued his mobile phone conservation not just during the takeoff roll but as we were in the climb. He was genuinely perplexed when the signal broke up.