British Airways Comair Seating 738
Feb 20, 2020, 5:57 am
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British Airways Comair Seating 738
My previous Club experience of British Airways Comair has always been on equipment with strange layouts but generally 2 - 3. For a booking in March from Johannesburg to Windhoek (BA 6275, Equipment 738) however I have received an email today informing me of a seat change due to operational issues to an even more interesting/peculiar Club layout, specifically 1-2-1. Have they outsourced the flight to another airline eg. Kulula or is this a new layout that BA Comair have introduced?
Feb 20, 2020, 6:37 am
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On Expertflyer, the seatmap shows it as a 737-800. The configuration in Y also shows standard 3-3 layout
I would read that as a 2-2 configuration A,C - D,F
I would read that as a 2-2 configuration A,C - D,F
Feb 20, 2020, 6:44 am
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I also got an email this morning for BA6275 JNB to WDH on May 11th. Our previously assigned seats had been swapped to the 2 middle seats in a 1-2-1 configeration. We didn't fancy those seats so selected a window seat each. I can cope with not being sat next to Mr Redrose for a couple of hours. 
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I'm expecting that the aircraft could well change again before we fly though!
.I'm expecting that the aircraft could well change again before we fly though!
Feb 20, 2020, 7:48 am
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Strange Comair seating plan
I'm booked on the BA6291, JNB:LVI in May. Today I got the standard "seat change email" so I went to MMB to see what exactly had happened. The new seat map is showing a 1-2-1 config in Club which I haven't seen before on a 738.
Any tips on the best seats?
TIA.
Any tips on the best seats?
TIA.
Feb 20, 2020, 9:09 am
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I got the email for a CPT-JNB flight on this Sunday 23rd Feb .. I'm assuming as above it's actually 2 - 2 seating and have moved us accordingly ... I'll post here with what it actually is after flying it !
Feb 20, 2020, 10:26 am
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only downside with Comair is that despite a country rife with checked bag pilfering the 737-800s I’ve been on have all had v small early 80s like overhead lockers. I believe a few don’t and have the Boeing ‘sky interior’ instead.
Feb 21, 2020, 12:23 am
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Another one for a change on JNB to/from WDH, this time in June, switched from a window pair to the strange centre pair. Would be interested to know what these really are.
Feb 21, 2020, 1:53 am
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Comair 737-800 J Class Seat Map 2-2 or 2-3 ?
I’m booked next week to fly CPT to JNB on Comair 737 in J class. Previously, all seat maps were 2-3 in J, and all my previous flights also the same. Now the seat map for my upcoming flight has just changed to 2-2. Does Comair have any 737 that have this config? It was new to me. Anyone flown Comair J class with 2-2? Just curious if anyone out there has seen this before....? My flight is Monday at 12:20, to be specific.
Feb 21, 2020, 2:29 am
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The Comair 737-800 Business Class seat isn't anything to get excited over. It's essentially 3-3 seating as Economy with the middle seat free. The backrest in the middle seat drops down and deploys as a central table when part of the business class configuration. The cabin divider between Business and Economy can be moved according to demand. Think European Business Class and you'll be thinking along the right lines. The 737-400's that remain in the fleet operate in a 2-3 configuration (The original Club Europe converter seat from the early 90's)
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Feb 21, 2020, 3:38 am
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The Comair 737-800 Business Class seat isn't anything to get excited over. It's essentially 3-3 seating as Economy with the middle seat free. The backrest in the middle seat drops down and deploys as a central table when part of the business class configuration. The cabin divider between Business and Economy can be moved according to demand. Think European Business Class and you'll be thinking along the right lines. The 737-400's that remain in the fleet operate in a 2-3 configuration (The original Club Europe converter seat from the early 90's)
I'm on the type with the mysterious 1-2-1 seat map on this Sunday .. Will report here what it actually is ( presumably nothing too exciting!)
Feb 21, 2020, 3:50 am
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My money (like that of many of us, I suspect) will be on nothing more exciting than a coding error made by someone who doesn't understand that in an AC|DF layout, there is no gap between A and C even though there's a missing letter, and there is a gap between C and D even though they are consecutive letters. The more interesting nosy question that I have is whether that was made by someone at MN or someone at BA.