Plane change, now see "comfort seats" for economy
Oct 1, 23, 10:09 pm
#1
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Join Date: Feb 2016
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Plane change, now see "comfort seats" for economy
After reading a bit, it seems this 777-300 is a lease from Cathay or BA. When looking at the seatmap, I see there are empty "comfort seats" where they are wanting to charge for an upgrade to these seats. If I am a silver status member, will I be able to get these upon checkin if I ask, or does Qatar treat these as something other than economy seats and won't honor my request? Has anyone experienced this before?
Oct 5, 23, 5:15 am
#3
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Join Date: Feb 2016
Posts: 68
Yes, these were premium economy seats. The plane had a stand up bar between business and preminum economy, so I am not sure if that is Virgin or another airline.
To conclude the story, upon checkin I mentioned I had noticed a plane change and he said yes. I then asked if we could be moved to row 15 or 16. I heard him speak to his colleage on the radio saying that I knew quite a bit about this flight and the seats. The answer came back that those seats were taken, but he would put us in an extra legroom seat. After this I didn't bother to look at the boarding passes given until some time later and it turns out we did get the row 16 premium economy seats. Well done Qatar!
To conclude the story, upon checkin I mentioned I had noticed a plane change and he said yes. I then asked if we could be moved to row 15 or 16. I heard him speak to his colleage on the radio saying that I knew quite a bit about this flight and the seats. The answer came back that those seats were taken, but he would put us in an extra legroom seat. After this I didn't bother to look at the boarding passes given until some time later and it turns out we did get the row 16 premium economy seats. Well done Qatar!
