Whats the go with Seat Maps

[marki]

Hi new and ongoing sagas. Has anyone been on the Qantas website seen their seat-maps when choosing a nice seat and then gone to Seat Guru but have found them way off?
Well I have. In fact I am wondering which to believe? What Qantas was showing as a seat map representing a A321 BA European configuration flight at 7:00am from TXL to LHR was off by what looks like one row.
Very interesting any takers out there who have experience this dilemma before? What did you do? look forward to the replies.

 

[get me outta here]

I have had this issue. So, and once I figure out what I'm trying to achieve for a long haul, I just call QF during BH and do the seat requests all at once. Just not sure if that works in your BA example.

Hi new and ongoing sagas. Has anyone been on the Qantas website seen their seat-maps when choosing a nice seat and then gone to Seat Guru but have found them way off?
Well I have. In fact I am wondering which to believe? What Qantas was showing as a seat map representing a A321 BA European configuration flight at 7:00am from TXL to LHR was off by what looks like one row.
Very interesting any takers out there who have experience this dilemma before? What did you do? look forward to the replies.

 

[marki]

Actually that might work.

 

[ajw373]

Hi new and ongoing sagas. Has anyone been on the Qantas website seen their seat-maps when choosing a nice seat and then gone to Seat Guru but have found them way off?
Well I have. In fact I am wondering which to believe? What Qantas was showing as a seat map representing a A321 BA European configuration flight at 7:00am from TXL to LHR was off by what looks like one row.
Very interesting any takers out there who have experience this dilemma before? What did you do? look forward to the replies.

Believe Qantas. Why the number of seats in BA European configuration is flexible. On their A319/320/321 (Europe config a/c) the number of seats in Club Europe can vary from flight to flight. On the A319's for example Club Europe could be rows 1-3, or it could be anywhere up to 1-10. Think the Europe config A321's it could be up to row 19. The reason being the Club seat is no different to the Euro Traveller seat. The only difference is the middle seat is not occupied and you get a 'better' meal. In the old days they would wind in the armrests too and some rows had extra leg room, but they are changing that.

Seat map sites like Seat Guru, don't show this all that clearly.

Oh the other danger with BA is they dynamically allocate space in Club Europe. So be careful if you book economy seats just behind Club. You may find closer to the flight they open up more Club Europe seats and your seat will become a Club row and you will end up elsewhere.

 

[ajw373]

So, and once I figure out what I'm trying to achieve for a long haul, I just call QF during BH and do the seat requests all at once.

Long and medium haul the cabin allocations are fixed. Club Europe they are variable. As mentioned above that will the OP's issue without doubt.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Hi new and ongoing sagas. Has anyone been on the Qantas website seen their seat-maps when choosing a nice seat and then gone to Seat Guru but have found them way off?
Well I have. In fact I am wondering which to believe? What Qantas was showing as a seat map representing a A321 BA European configuration flight at 7:00am from TXL to LHR was off by what looks like one row.
Very interesting any takers out there who have experience this dilemma before? What did you do? look forward to the replies.

I don't have confidence in seat maps for the purpose of selecting actual seats other than those found on the operating airline's website. Plenty of times I have seen seat maps being wide open on say QF or BA, but the operating airline shows some or all of those seats already occupied, or subject to additional charges (which if you don't pay, you might get kicked out of and end up in something worse). Or there's the potential that your selected seat via QF may not get properly transmitted to the other airline. Safer to go direct to the operating airline. But YMMV.

Seatguru is partially useful to determine potential seat quality, but is not always very accurate, particularly for non US airlines.

 

[mannej]

1 - Seatguru isn't always accurate, so not always the best source of information.

2-If it is a BA operated flight, I would be using the MMB section of the BA site instead of the QF MMB. That is probably your most reliable source of information.

 

[marki]

1 - Seatguru isn't always accurate, so not always the best source of information.

2-If it is a BA operated flight, I would be using the MMB section of the BA site instead of the QF MMB. That is probably your most reliable source of information.

Thanks mannej, but why is seat guru inaccurate?

 

[serfty]

Seat guru is more of a blog showing opinions - it does not show actually allocations for individual flights.

For that you need to use the airlines seat selection or somthing like KVS or ExpertFlyer.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Thanks mannej, but why is seat guru inaccurate?

For non-US based airlines seatguru can be out of date... for example it still shows seating configurations long gone for some airlines.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

For non-US based airlines seatguru can be out of date... for example it still shows seating configurations long gone for some airlines.

It can also show configurations for airlines that have never been in existence, for instance the Seat Guru QF A333 version 1 has a 1x2x2 config in J with whY starting from row 11 to row 43?

Not sure what they were smoking when they did that number. :?:

SeatGuru Seat Map Qantas Airbus A330-300 (333) V1

 

[MEL_Traveller]

It can also show configurations for airlines that have never been in existence, for instance the Seat Guru QF A333 version 1 has a 1x2x2 config in J with whY starting from row 11 to row 43?

Not sure what they were smoking when they did that number. :?:

SeatGuru Seat Map Qantas Airbus A330-300 (333) V1

It also says 30 angled flat seats for business class when the configuration is the new suites.

 

[kermatu]

I'm increasingly finding seatguru out of date and useful only as a broad guide for carriers I am not yet that familiar with before a booking is made. I agree the best bet is to use the operating airline's site.

 

[kelvedon]

Or BA source?

The BA Source - British Airways aircraft Seat Maps