Weight Balancing CRJ-200 MRY-LAX
#16
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Perhaps not - but your statement that it’s “passengers in rows 2 and 3 that need to move” is saying that your seat assignment in row 1 is more important than seat assignments of others in row 2 or 3. Not sure why your assignment is more important than someone else’s. That sounds exactly like you are more important than others to me.
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#19
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As for blocking seats, maybe they could block the first 5 aisle seats on the left and the first 5 windows seats on the right, until the plane starts to fill up..?
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A W&B move is relatively uncommon and furthermore almost always involves moving pax from full rows into empty rows, so you get extra empty seats to compensate. I feel like proactively blocking is overkill as it's just not that big a deal. Like the time on a mainline 739 when they needed a number of people to move from E+ to E- for W&B, but it was from a full E+ row and the last 8 rows of the plane were empty.
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#22
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Maybe someone needs to educate the FA's ....
#23
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UA may call it E+. Let's get real - nothing on this aircraft should have a + after it.
Real E+ doesn't exist on a CRJ. And no - it's not necessarily the folks in row 2 and 3. The specific calculations are going to be based on specifics of the flight, including weather and load - if you want the plane to depart.
Real E+ doesn't exist on a CRJ. And no - it's not necessarily the folks in row 2 and 3. The specific calculations are going to be based on specifics of the flight, including weather and load - if you want the plane to depart.
Maybe my stance is way off base but; the OP is not the one who earned the status, thus has almost no merit to a complaint about moving. As I fly more and more, I can almost with 100% accuracy pick out who earns their status on an RJ vs who is doing on the mainline. How? simply because the one's earning on the RJ are willing to help out and assist with situations like this one. Trust me, these small acts of kindness do not go unnoticed and you will be rewarded by your crew.
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Not that it's a contest...But all of this is better than what happened to me:
Was traveling from MBS-ORD on the CRJ200. My 3 year old daughter and I, on the same reservation, seats 1 A & B.
I hear my 3 year old's name paged a few minutes before boarding...I go up.
The agent looks at me and says, "Are you <no question about it a female's name>"
Me: "Ummmm, that's my daughter"
Agent: "The captain told me she has to move."
Me: "Really? Just so you know, she's 3 years old, is there someone else you can move in the front, towards the back?" (And I say that from the separation perspective, not from the 'averages of he being 30 pounds' aspect).
Agent: "I'm sorry, the captain says she's got to move."
Me: "She's 3 years old, we are not getting separated." (I knew in advance, based on the seat map I've religiously checked over the course of that day there weren't any empty pairs on a relatively full flight).
Agent: "Captain said someone has to move from Row 1, and she's been randomly selected".
Me: "She's 3 years old"...What about me then? Can you then move us to seats together in the back?" (I knew that answer in advance).
Agent: "Sorry, there are only 3 other empties in the back" (Which I already knew). I moved her to one of the window seats, I can move you to a window within 3 rows of her, or you can ask to change when you get on board"
Me: "I want to speak to the captain prior to boarding then."
Agent relents, saying snarkily, "Then you're going to have to explain to the captain when you get on that I didn't move you". I told her that won't be a problem. A whole production of rolling her eyes and snotty looks and under-her-breath complaining that I'm not being 'cooperative'. She changes my daughter's seat back as if she's giving me a double-upgrade from a basic economy fare to a Singapore Suite at gunpoint.
I get on, flight attendant does the typical speech that one person from rows 1-3 (or 4?) has to move. Someone else moves, I get to actually sit with my 3 year old.
While I do like the proactive approach to dealing with weight/balance, this ranks up there with one of the most BS things I've experienced with United (Express) (contract workers). United used to have awesome (contracted) staff at my little airport...But these new SkyWest contractors are absolutely horrible...This is just one of the many gripes I've had with them in the last year+ since they took over for Air Wisconsin Ground Handling.
Was traveling from MBS-ORD on the CRJ200. My 3 year old daughter and I, on the same reservation, seats 1 A & B.
I hear my 3 year old's name paged a few minutes before boarding...I go up.
The agent looks at me and says, "Are you <no question about it a female's name>"
Me: "Ummmm, that's my daughter"
Agent: "The captain told me she has to move."
Me: "Really? Just so you know, she's 3 years old, is there someone else you can move in the front, towards the back?" (And I say that from the separation perspective, not from the 'averages of he being 30 pounds' aspect).
Agent: "I'm sorry, the captain says she's got to move."
Me: "She's 3 years old, we are not getting separated." (I knew in advance, based on the seat map I've religiously checked over the course of that day there weren't any empty pairs on a relatively full flight).
Agent: "Captain said someone has to move from Row 1, and she's been randomly selected".
Me: "She's 3 years old"...What about me then? Can you then move us to seats together in the back?" (I knew that answer in advance).
Agent: "Sorry, there are only 3 other empties in the back" (Which I already knew). I moved her to one of the window seats, I can move you to a window within 3 rows of her, or you can ask to change when you get on board"
Me: "I want to speak to the captain prior to boarding then."
Agent relents, saying snarkily, "Then you're going to have to explain to the captain when you get on that I didn't move you". I told her that won't be a problem. A whole production of rolling her eyes and snotty looks and under-her-breath complaining that I'm not being 'cooperative'. She changes my daughter's seat back as if she's giving me a double-upgrade from a basic economy fare to a Singapore Suite at gunpoint.
I get on, flight attendant does the typical speech that one person from rows 1-3 (or 4?) has to move. Someone else moves, I get to actually sit with my 3 year old.
While I do like the proactive approach to dealing with weight/balance, this ranks up there with one of the most BS things I've experienced with United (Express) (contract workers). United used to have awesome (contracted) staff at my little airport...But these new SkyWest contractors are absolutely horrible...This is just one of the many gripes I've had with them in the last year+ since they took over for Air Wisconsin Ground Handling.
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A W&B move is relatively uncommon and furthermore almost always involves moving pax from full rows into empty rows, so you get extra empty seats to compensate. I feel like proactively blocking is overkill as it's just not that big a deal. Like the time on a mainline 739 when they needed a number of people to move from E+ to E- for W&B, but it was from a full E+ row and the last 8 rows of the plane were empty.
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#28
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But during my good years with USAirways, I got a full box of XoXos just by mentioning to the FA that my wife was raised on those in Belgium.
Anyways, looking at the 29 flights I have taken on the CR2, I was 16 times in seat 1B, 11 times in an aisle seat in the exit row (row 8) and 2 times in an aisle seat in row 2.