Seat Selection - What is this?

[Scr77]

Anyone shed some light on the ‘switch’ in the middle of the screenshot? It’s for seat selection in F on a Qantas A380. Cheers, Steven.

 

[sudoer]

Anyone shed some light on the ‘switch’ in the middle of the screenshot? It’s for seat selection in F on a Qantas A380. Cheers, Steven.

When you select a seat for pax #1 it automatically suggests a seat for pax #2. Noticed it earlier this week - not the worst feature as I'd bet most travelling parties will want to sit directly next to each other.

Curious to know how it behaves for F seating...

 

[Scr77]

When you select a seat for pax #1 it automatically suggests a seat for pax #2. Noticed it earlier this week - not the worst feature as I'd bet most travelling parties will want to sit directly next to each other.

Curious to know how it behaves for F seating...

Well that makes sense, but the wording “seat type” makes it sound like there are different types of seats available.

I’ve fiddled with the selection. I think the default seats for 2 pax were one window and one centre seat (aisle in between)

 

[henrus]

Well that makes sense, but the wording “seat type” makes it sound like there are different types of seats available.

Well technically there are... They've got standard seats, preferred seats and exit rows. Maybe it's a sign of slightly larger preferred seating zones and an automatic system similar to Jetstar.

 

[RichardMEL]

I like this!

It means you can either elect to sit together, or there would be cases where you may want, for example 1A and 2A rather than 1A/1C (as in above example). Some times people both want a window, or aisle or whatever and prefer their own selections. This seems like a good move to me.

(of course there's no indication that this toggle switch holds in the situation of say an a/c sub or something and seats get reallocated, or pax are upgraded and allocated seats, but it seems like a good step)

 

[NickCorr]

Took me ages the other day to notice that toggle.. Was trying to book seats for a party of 5 including 2 kids and of course it insists on sitting the child with an adult, but not asking which child with which adult... But once I untoggled it, was all good.