seat selection - got ousted by a service dog

[simongr]

Not always possible to book the bassinet in advance though is it? Yes I'm splitting hairs!

True but if they bump you out of the bassinet position to allow someone to take it then it is not something you find out on board unless someone has done it themselves.

 

[Katie]

Ah, Katie didn't realise it was a guide dog. Thought it might be a poodle or something.

Just wondering, did the blind guy have the window seat?

For the dog, i mean.

It was a 767, the middle seats (DEF??), so there was no window seats for the dog to have a view.

 

[oz_mark]

only some groups of three seats have an extra oxygen mask.... so I'm not sure if both sides of row 4 are equipped as such?

I think there is also an issue with air bags on some aircraft.

 

[markis10]

I think there is also an issue with air bags on some aircraft.

Yes, in the seat belts of the 738s and Tigers A320s.

http://www.casa.gov.au/wcmswr/_assets/main/lib100142/seatbelt_airbags.pdf

 

[bigjobs]

We have been bumped by a guide dog in Y in Sept 2011. BNE-SYD, 1xWP, 1xSG on a 767. I had the bulkhead selected for us, the two aisles, hoping for WP shadow in the middle seat. If no shadow, then no big deal, one of us swaps with the middle seat or suck it in for a short flight and sit apart.
Get to our seats, and two gentlemen are there in the aisle seats. One tells us "Sorry, we were meant to be here because of the dog, our seats are the row behind". The timid part of me sits in the next row, while seething on the inside - this being my first trip with Mr Katie since achieving the lofty heights of WP. About halfway through the flight the other gentlman gets up and I realise he's blind and that the dog, which I hadn't seen, was a guide dog. I stop seething, but then question how they're travelling with the dog and can bump a WP - how could I select that seat if it needed to be given to a guide dog?? - and also wonder just how much space a labrador needs (curiosity, not sookiness). I get over it, but Mr Katie continues seething apparently.

lol ... u wot m8?

I have heard that infants aren't allowed in row 4 previously.

that can't be a true ... there are many on here that are adamant they can and do sit in row 4.

 

[docjames]

As the "owner" of an infant I have been told previously when asking that row 4 is now being avoided for any party with an infant where there are seatbelt airbags.

Not sure if that means QF are routinely not allowing infants on row 4 or all 737s or just when they know the operating aircraft.