Weird seatmap thing. Anyone explain?
Oct 10, 2007 | 1:11 am
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Weird seatmap thing. Anyone explain?
I was just booking an AF flight on orbitz and got to the seatmaps and saw a funny thing.
In the last 10 rows or so of the 343, the rows were pretty much empty except that the E seat (left-middle seat in the four seat center section) was marked as occupied in every row.
Weird, huh?
I know seat maps are not really reliable, but it just seems like a weird pattern. Can anyone think of a good explanation?
In the last 10 rows or so of the 343, the rows were pretty much empty except that the E seat (left-middle seat in the four seat center section) was marked as occupied in every row.
Weird, huh?
I know seat maps are not really reliable, but it just seems like a weird pattern. Can anyone think of a good explanation?
Oct 10, 2007 | 4:47 am
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That's a good point.. maybe AF does it itself when customers choose not to select seats...
Or I wonder if some consolidators have a deal that they get good rates but only have access to the worst seats...
I wonder if that could be reasonably enforced.
Or I wonder if some consolidators have a deal that they get good rates but only have access to the worst seats...
I wonder if that could be reasonably enforced.
Oct 10, 2007 | 5:04 pm
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According to seatguru.com, from Row 43 back (not quite ten rows, but close enough if one isn't counting) on AF's A340-300s, the fuselage narrows. Seating changes from eight across (2-4-2) to seven across (2-3-2). That site says it's G they don't use, but it could have that wrong. Could that have been it, or did Orbitz show the row widths correctly?
Oct 11, 2007 | 12:20 am
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Ha.
Excellent catch! ^
Thanks.
Excellent catch! ^
Thanks.
According to seatguru.com, from Row 43 back (not quite ten rows, but close enough if one isn't counting) on AF's A340-300s, the fuselage narrows. Seating changes from eight across (2-4-2) to seven across (2-3-2). That site says it's G they don't use, but it could have that wrong. Could that have been it, or did Orbitz show the row widths correctly?