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This trip report is on a flight I took on Friday from SFO to JFK on UA 10. This flight is part of UA's so called premium service (or p.s.).
I was quite excited to try this service to see how good it would make a 5 hour flight feel like.
Most of this report is photographic and I will keep to just adding a few comments.
UA10 departs UA10 at 13:30 and my friend and I had chosen seats 2A and 2B.
When we checked in, his seat had been changed from 2B to 1A. We were in the same PNR and I was not happy, thinking that had moved a 1k to his seat or something of the sort.
The checking agent looked in the computer and confirmed we should have those seats but he said there had been an aircraft substitution and that might explain what happened. He could not touch the seat and we would have to do it at the gate.
UA-10 is supposed to be a 757 equipped with 3 classes. With F having spacebed-like seats.
We checked into the RCC and I went with the boarding passes to the gate...
There I saw that the aircraft had been changed to a 767.
The gate agent told me it was international config and that there were no two seats together. She said she would check if the passenger in seat 1C would mind trading with 2B.
That was not too bad of a news. I went back to the RCC to wait.
At boarding time, I got a big surprise!!!
This aircraft was the latest (and only second) UA 767 to be equipped with UA's new international configuration with the new J flat seats facing both forward and backward:
The F seat are not very much changed from the old one. They do look fresher and have now on demand IFE.
Sorry I did not take a picture of the IFE system, but it has a nice largish screen (maybe the same size as SQ's older 744 F screens)
The seat is pretty comfortable.
The most surprising feature of the seat was at the seat belt. When I first tied it, I wondered.... "Strange... what's that knob for?..." But then the safety video explained it....
F seats get a 3 point safety belt!!! How weird!
The setup feels as if the third belt segment is trying to pull the belt over your belly button!
I was quite excited to try this service to see how good it would make a 5 hour flight feel like.
Most of this report is photographic and I will keep to just adding a few comments.
UA10 departs UA10 at 13:30 and my friend and I had chosen seats 2A and 2B.
When we checked in, his seat had been changed from 2B to 1A. We were in the same PNR and I was not happy, thinking that had moved a 1k to his seat or something of the sort.
The checking agent looked in the computer and confirmed we should have those seats but he said there had been an aircraft substitution and that might explain what happened. He could not touch the seat and we would have to do it at the gate.
UA-10 is supposed to be a 757 equipped with 3 classes. With F having spacebed-like seats.
We checked into the RCC and I went with the boarding passes to the gate...
There I saw that the aircraft had been changed to a 767.
The gate agent told me it was international config and that there were no two seats together. She said she would check if the passenger in seat 1C would mind trading with 2B.
That was not too bad of a news. I went back to the RCC to wait.
At boarding time, I got a big surprise!!!
This aircraft was the latest (and only second) UA 767 to be equipped with UA's new international configuration with the new J flat seats facing both forward and backward:
The F seat are not very much changed from the old one. They do look fresher and have now on demand IFE.
Sorry I did not take a picture of the IFE system, but it has a nice largish screen (maybe the same size as SQ's older 744 F screens)
The seat is pretty comfortable.
The most surprising feature of the seat was at the seat belt. When I first tied it, I wondered.... "Strange... what's that knob for?..." But then the safety video explained it....
F seats get a 3 point safety belt!!! How weird!
The setup feels as if the third belt segment is trying to pull the belt over your belly button!
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