I also found that the LX seat maps did not seem to match availability shown to the phone agents. I wouldn't worry about your precise location in the cabin. Many posters here have extolled the "mini-J cabin", but I found the main J cabin still very quiet and comfortable. The entire LX J experience was in a totally different universe from UA J. I would choose LX for every western Europe trip from now on if it weren't for the difficulty of getting it plated on UA 016 ticket stock and the resulting RDM consequences. (I'm 2 MM so don't worry much about PQMs).

Thanks Starman.
I have no qualms with my seat now. I was originally assigned a seat in the mini-cabin, but was one of a pair that didn't allow for the other person to get to the aisle without climbing over me.

I will look at check-in to see if one of the "throne" seats are available, but that is really more for the novelty factor.

I'm now able to choose seats online for the Helvetic segment. Guessing that something the phone agent did enabled this. Picked 13A, which appears to be the best seat on the (otherwise totally empty) aircraft.

Hello to everyone.
I've read all the thread but I think I need to ask.
I reserved a flight GRU-ZRH on september. On that time the airplane will be a B777 so the question is about choosing the best seat available today.

For now I am on 7A but I am not sure to confirm it as, according to this thread, there will be no window there. Is it confirmed?

I am attaching the map, which seat would you suggest? I'm travelling alone and I am *G so I cannot choose those starred seats.

7A is good. It does have a window, space for feet in sleep mode is big, galley and lavatory in front did not disturb.

Thank you for your opinion, PetzLUX, and for confirming the existence of the window!

777 Seating
 

I'm booked in seat 7A on the 777. According to this Swiss.com seatmap it appears as if this seat has no windows.

Can anyone confirm this?

http://i.imgur.com/VRKWWRD.jpg

777 Seating
 

No. 7A has a window. Was sitting there recently.

I've always preferred the mini cabin on the 340 and seat 5K in particular because of the unit between the seat and the aisle. I've never sat in 4A on the 340 although I understood it had more leg space than 5K. I've not been on the 777 yet but now the advantage of the gap between the seat and the aisle has gone because 5K has become a throne seat am I correct in thinking that 4A is the better choice?

Thanks for confirming PetzLUX. I missed that you had already answered this exact question ;)

For those of you who experienced both the old and new (B777-300) LX C seats, is there any improvement in terms of the footwell on the new C seats?
I find the footwells on the old C seats way too small, to a level I can't move my feet/legs once I put my legs into the footwell in lie-flat mode.
I was wondering if LX made any improvements regarding this aspect of the seat.
Thanks!

A330
 

Anybody experiance with seating row 45 on A330-300?

Yes, the footwells in general are now much wider, especially for the single seats (also the bulkhead ones), so better than on the 330.

Also, the none-throne window seats (so where there is a pair of seats in a window/aisle configuration) continue to have the ability to lower the armrest, thus in effect giving a slightly wider bed. So at least one advantage if you get stuck in that seat and don't know the person next to you.

That is also why on an A330 night flight I always try and get one of the uneven numbered "K" single seats (other than 9K, where there is also a window issue, 5K because it is bang in front of the loo and 14K because it is just in front of the economy section), not a throne; with the ability to lower the armrest, the curvature of the cabin wall and the fact that the footwell is open to the cabin wall it makes for a much roomier "bed" than any of the throne seats!

As to the windows in row 7, one out of two is missing, so you still have one window (albeit the one farther away). But that is the case on all 777-300's (e.g., EK).

I have an upcoming 777 flight and want to know what the best throne seat to pick is? Also it is letting me pick the "Preferred seats" even though i dont have status. Is that normal? Thanks.

Does SWISS online seat assignment EVER work?
 

Ms Coastda is booked on a series of flights booked as United codeshares including one tomorrow from ORD-ZUR.

Despite claims on the website that seating assignments (we are happy to PAY) 48 hours in advance, other parts say 24 hours, others say 23, and after long waits calling the 877 number one agent said she'd have to wait until she got to ORD then leave the secure area, go to LX ticket counter and get seat. Then another said the website was down, and the last one said there "was nothing we can do at our end" (this was swiss.com help desk).

Using her LX booking number the "seat reservation to click" area is grayed out.
The flight is about 18 hours away.

Any advice?:confused: