Q&A with the Seat Expert

Archive for March, 2009

Please can you confirm whether 47E has direct access to the aisle on the A380-800 airplane for Singapore Airlines, or do you need to step over the two adjacent seats to the other aisle?

My husband and I will be traveling beginning of Sept. from SFO to IAD (Dulles) on United. We have frequent flier miles and wanted to use them to upgrade from economy to first class. How is the best way to do this to ensure we get first class seating?

What is the best business class seat when traveling to Thailand?

Our travel agent has booked us premium economy seats on a Virgin Atlantic 747 from Gatwick which corresponds to the B747-400 (Heathrow – Version 3) on your site. It seems that version 3 seating of their 747 now goes from Gatwick too.

Could you please give me any info/comments you may have on the new extra legroom seats in economy Virgin Atlantic are now offering on some of there 747/400 fleet. Are they worth the extra cost?

How do you book seats?

I have been assigned 21K on Egyptair B777-200. This is colored yellow=Beware, but I could find no explanation of what one should beware of. Can you explain this?

I will fly to Brisbane, Australia from Abu Dhabi by Etihad Airlines. Which seat is it the best for me in economy class? We are 2 adults, 1 children, and 1 infant. I wish seats beside the window.

I often see cabin configurations such as Y132 or C8/T126 etc. Could you tell me what they mean please?

I have a reservation in World Business Class on NW flight 36 DTW-AMS in early February. The aircraft is listed as a 75C. This appears to be the same as the transatlantic version of the 757-200 (International Atlantic) on SeatExpert. I was looking at the blogs to try to figure out what are the disadvantages of Seat 4A. It appears to be a seat by itself on SeatGuru and on the seating chart of my reservation. However, from reading other blogs it may be that this seat may be used for crew rest or there may be an adjacent seat 4B reserved only for a crew member. I selected 4A because I am traveling by myself and thought I would get some extra breathing room next to me. However, if it is going to be filled with a pilot then I will have to crawl over him or her to get to the aisle, etc. I would just as soon take an aisle seat in that case. What is the setup in this row of the aircraft?