Reserved stickers on Economy Seats B787-9
Dec 3, 2018, 1:47 am
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Reserved stickers on Economy Seats B787-9
Hi all, watching a youtube clip of boarding THAI's 787-9 I noted some economy seats with reserved stickers on them.
I have never seen these before (as far as I can recall) and I can only think they would be for a passenger who requires addition assistance - e.g. wheelchair.
Anybody have any insights?
Cheers, TK
These can be seen in this clip at 26 secs: ht tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy42YMypaDA
(PS - the break in the url is deliberate as I don't want to embed the video to save screen space...)
I have never seen these before (as far as I can recall) and I can only think they would be for a passenger who requires addition assistance - e.g. wheelchair.
Anybody have any insights?
Cheers, TK
These can be seen in this clip at 26 secs: ht tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy42YMypaDA
(PS - the break in the url is deliberate as I don't want to embed the video to save screen space...)
Dec 4, 2018, 1:11 am
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i have seen such stickers on other airlines on flights with stopovers for passengers who continued their journey on the same plane
However I have flown multiple time on such flights on TG (for example BKK-HKG-ICN, BKK-TPE-ICN) and never seen such Stickers used by TG
However I have flown multiple time on such flights on TG (for example BKK-HKG-ICN, BKK-TPE-ICN) and never seen such Stickers used by TG
Dec 4, 2018, 1:48 am
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Dec 4, 2018, 2:46 am
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sorry, can't help! I have never seen such stickers during my hundreds of flights with TG during the last 30 years
Dec 5, 2018, 2:27 pm
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I have seen these used on Thai many times in Y. Normally they are rear row and reserved for cabin crew rest. They are also used on seats that have had a malfunction and are deemed not satisfactory for passenger use. I have also had them used once on the two seats next to me in a Thai 777 front row Y when I tried to do a business class upgrade at checkin and despite there being seats available, meals were not, so they would not sell it to me. When I boarded the stickers were on the 2 seats and I was told by the purser the port manager had blocked those seats for me to make up for the failed upgrade. (This was out of Australia).
Dec 5, 2018, 4:17 pm
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Thanks for your insights. I'd considered INOP seats, but usually the sticker says that explicitly (perhaps seen on other carriers). I suppose the wording 'reserved' can cover a multitude of situations.
Dec 7, 2018, 11:58 am
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Sure, although in the case it was AKL-BKK and this has been a steady 789 (sometimes 788) route since April - so possibly some deadheading crew who had been doing line training down to NZ?