Good business seat selection - domestic A333, 767, and 747.

[macrop]

Hi All,

Just burning some points in a week or so and I am currently booked to go to Sydney from Perth via Melbourne and returning a few days later to Perth directly from Sydney. All flights are in Business and am wondering about good window seat choices from fellow travellers. I've used Seat guru and have made my choices so far from there.

PER-MEL is a A330-300 and have currently seleted 5A.
MEL-SYD is 767 and have chosen 2A. Are there any good seats on 767
Having never flown business in the A330 or 767 was wondering if it worth moving foward when the front seats become available in a few days? though the short 767 flight will be over before I know it.

SYD-PER is a 747 2 class and have chosen 16A exit row on the upper desk thus far.

Cheers,

 

[serfty]

Any good seats on a 767?

If you are travelling on your own and you see a 1x2x2 row configuration; grab an A seat if available.

Other than that, bulkhead if you can find one at T-80.

 

[macrop]

Just to update my own thread to help other decide on future travel.

PER-MEL is a A330-300 and have currently seleted 5A.
MEL-SYD is 767 and have chosen 2A. Are there any good seats on 767

Having never flown business in the A330 or 767 was wondering if it worth moving foward when the front seats become available in a few days? though the short 767 flight will be over before I know it.

SYD-PER is a 747 2 class and have chosen 16A exit row on the upper desk thus far.

PER-MEL was a great flight on the A333. Chose the 1K seat at T80 with the front cabin full except for the seat next next me. Service was very good.

MEL-SYD ended up being a 1x2x2 config jet and only half a dozen people in the cabin. Sat up front next to a window so I was happy with a great view. I must say the 767 are very tired aircraft from within the cabin. Still look great from the outside.

SYD-PER. 747 2 class config. I ended up choosing 16K a few days before check-in (upper deck exit) only to be re-seated just before take-off to downstairs in 4E which meant no window or really any view of the outside. Double booking or operational change as every seat was taken. Was a bit embarrasing after settling in only to be moved 20 minutes later. I wasn't impressed at all at the time. So much for advanced seat selection. The lower front J cabin was totally chaotic and the 4E/F seats are the least appealing J seats from what I could tell. The exit row seats upstairs were great with so much room, infact the entire upstairs section is where you would want to be. I suspect there may have been some aircraft changes beforehand as my flight had most J seats available the day before. Not really worth the 36000 points in the end without the window. The service was still pretty good and the CSM gave me a bottle of red as compensation.

PS. Flew on one of the newer 738 planes yesterday (VH-VZL from memory). Nice updated cabin and with a AVOD system than only glitched half as much as the A333 and 744 systems Wouldn't mind if I had one of these newer aircraft every week as opposed the older 800 series.

 

[serfty]

... the 4E/F seats are the least appealing J seats from what I could tell. ...

IMHO, 4E/F are about the best in thse birds.

Although not super relevant for such a short flight, no-one has to climb over anyone else should someone want to go for a walk. 16K ok, but you still need to haul yourself up to access the aisle.

 

[macrop]

IMHO, 4E/F are about the best in thse birds.

Although not super relevant for such a short flight, no-one has to climb over anyone else should someone want to go for a walk. 16K ok, but you still need to haul yourself up to access the aisle.

Yep - I see your point now in that regard. Would certainly be good choice on a long-haul flight especially when flying over ocean where the window seat would be irrelevent to some degree. Cheers.

 

[Moopere]

I suspect there may have been some aircraft changes beforehand as my flight had most J seats available the day before. Not really worth the 36000 points in the end without the window. The service was still pretty good and the CSM gave me a bottle of red as compensation

This is really good customer service in my world. I accept that sometimes things won't go the way I'd hoped and planned. To acknowledge my annoyance by providing a token as above (the bottle of red) would placate me completely and I'd end up viewing that as a good experience.

I was asked recently to give up my bulkhead seat for a lady with a baby. It was done really professionally and though ultimately I probably didn't really have much choice, the way it was handled made me feel like I did, and so I was happy to give it up. This is again, in my view, good customer relations, its about how to deal with customers when things change.