Booking 777XC/XI Y seats 17-19 H and J
Dec 9, 2004, 10:26 pm
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Booking 777XC/XI Y seats 17-19 H and J
(I searched for this answer, couldn't find it. Apologies if it's already been answered)
Does anyone know what the requirements are to be able to book seats 17 through 19 H or J on a 777XC/XI in advance?
These are those six seats at the right front of coach that have more legroom, recline further and have a footrest. I've been able to get them a few times at check-in at the airport, but never any other way.
Does anyone know what the requirements are to be able to book seats 17 through 19 H or J on a 777XC/XI in advance?
These are those six seats at the right front of coach that have more legroom, recline further and have a footrest. I've been able to get them a few times at check-in at the airport, but never any other way.
Dec 9, 2004, 10:53 pm
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In my experience, on International flights, these seats are crew rest seats and cannot be booked. On domestic flights, I've never seen them occupied by crew, but they usually do not show up on the website as available for booking when the 777 flight nr. continues on to an International destination.
Dec 9, 2004, 11:33 pm
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There is no way to pre-assign these seats on a domestic flight. You have to switch to them at check-in.
Dec 10, 2004, 5:59 am
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17H and J are 100% crewrest seats. No chance. I like 17G as an aisle person 
Dec 10, 2004, 8:46 am
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You CAN Reserve these seats...
You ARE able to get these seats on flights where crew rest seats are not required (I think it depends on the time of day, but generally 6 hours or less), but usually only at check in, and I think only for status pax.
For example, SIN-NRT is available, but not NRT-SIN because the latter is 1 hr longer in duration. They are wonderful seats, and what I would call "real E+" If UA came up with economy plus comprised of these seats, I wouldn't bother upgrading to C.
For example, SIN-NRT is available, but not NRT-SIN because the latter is 1 hr longer in duration. They are wonderful seats, and what I would call "real E+" If UA came up with economy plus comprised of these seats, I wouldn't bother upgrading to C.
Dec 10, 2004, 9:28 am
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On every international flight I've seen, those seats are crew rest and never offered up to passengers.. except for one occasion where a female passenger somehow boarded the plane fine.. but limped her way into a crew rest seat.
The seats behind the crew rest area (21H/J) are excellent.. and can be reserved in advance!
The seats behind the crew rest area (21H/J) are excellent.. and can be reserved in advance!
Dec 10, 2004, 9:29 am
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As a non-crew member, you could always shoot for 21H or 21J. No footrests and I assume less recline (sorry, don't carry on a protractor), but more than enough legroom for the person in 21J to exit his seat and not disturb the person in 21H.
Another "feature" that I particularly like about these two seats are the video monitors mounted on swing arms rather than in the seatback in front.
Seatguru.com criticizes these as having potential for passengers to mill about in the area, but I've yet to experience that unless the milling passengers were in fact talking to either of the people seated in the two seats.
Another "feature" that I particularly like about these two seats are the video monitors mounted on swing arms rather than in the seatback in front.
Seatguru.com criticizes these as having potential for passengers to mill about in the area, but I've yet to experience that unless the milling passengers were in fact talking to either of the people seated in the two seats.
Dec 10, 2004, 9:38 am
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Originally Posted by izzik
On every international flight I've seen, those seats are crew rest and never offered up to passengers
The seats behind the crew rest area (21H/J) are excellent.. and can be reserved in advance!
The seats behind the crew rest area (21H/J) are excellent.. and can be reserved in advance!
I think the OP is talking domestic, and that is possible
21H/J are really the best Y seat on the plane.
Dec 10, 2004, 10:21 am
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If you have to sit in Y and can book an A/B/H/J seat in E+ on the T7, it isn't actually the seat that has to be endured... 
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Dec 10, 2004, 4:39 pm
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Originally Posted by anc-ord772
I think the OP is talking domestic, and that is possible
21H/J are really the best Y seat on the plane.
21H/J are really the best Y seat on the plane.
So either there's a lot of people doing online checkin who are smart enough to grab those seats a day in advance, or they're being booked in advance. I doubt that there was 6 folks who tried online checkin and changed to 17-19 H or J, so my guess is that there must be a way to book those seats in advance.
FWIW, I like 17B or 17C better, but they were both already gone when I booked the flight two or three months ago
Dec 10, 2004, 5:25 pm
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Originally Posted by Sneezy
so my guess is that there must be a way to book those seats in advance.
FWIW, I like 17B or 17C better
FWIW, I like 17B or 17C better
17 could be better but I prefer a window, and 21J is amazing ^
Dec 10, 2004, 8:26 pm
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Originally Posted by anc-ord772
Let us know when that happens.
17 could be better but I prefer a window, and 21J is amazing ^
17 could be better but I prefer a window, and 21J is amazing ^
Jan 17, 2009, 3:54 pm
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Yeah, I just sat on 21H today. I tried to switch to 17-19 H or J last night with online checkin and couldn't do it - they were already gone.
So either there's a lot of people doing online checkin who are smart enough to grab those seats a day in advance, or they're being booked in advance. I doubt that there was 6 folks who tried online checkin and changed to 17-19 H or J, so my guess is that there must be a way to book those seats in advance.
FWIW, I like 17B or 17C better, but they were both already gone when I booked the flight two or three months ago
So either there's a lot of people doing online checkin who are smart enough to grab those seats a day in advance, or they're being booked in advance. I doubt that there was 6 folks who tried online checkin and changed to 17-19 H or J, so my guess is that there must be a way to book those seats in advance.
FWIW, I like 17B or 17C better, but they were both already gone when I booked the flight two or three months ago
p.s. What is the reason that these seats are blocked on domestic flights in the first place?
Jan 17, 2009, 4:36 pm
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On every international flight I've seen, those seats are crew rest and never offered up to passengers.. except for one occasion where a female passenger somehow boarded the plane fine.. but limped her way into a crew rest seat.
The seats behind the crew rest area (21H/J) are excellent.. and can be reserved in advance!
The seats behind the crew rest area (21H/J) are excellent.. and can be reserved in advance!
These seat can be offered to passengers on short haul international flight.
If UA adds those footrest, I would love to buy E+ access every year if I were not an elite member.
I believe that those seats be opened up few hours (maybe 24?) before departure.
Here is my travel with the crew rest seat.
Jan 17, 2009, 4:52 pm
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Don't fool yourself, it UA add footrest to the E+ seat, they can further take out one seat from each row, become a true premium economy product similiar to BA, NH, NZ and BR. At that time, they would only limit to only 4 or 5 rows in 747 and 777, plus only full fare Y and B class can book into it.