Worst seat? I think I found it..

[vertisol]

I've just come back from the family holiday to Queensland and can now report on what I believe to be the worst seat location I have ever experienced.

QF 717, last row #23. No window, next to the engine, opposite the galley/ toilet.

For the three paying customers and an infant I had selected 2 and a single up front hoping to get a shadow to spread out a bit but when we checked in we were told the plane was pretty full so no shadow ( I could live with it) but then within earshot of my wife the check-in staff offered a row of three, up the back to which my wife said "that sounds great, we can all sit together"...

It was so noisy you couldn't hear the ipads through the standard head phones and my noise reduction headphones only just coped. Without the window it was like being below decks on a yacht in a storm..

Anyone else do better (or worse)?

sigh

 

[Ansett]

Nope

Worst seat on any aircraft ever has to be 36D on QF A380.... Next To Galley, toilet and a dirty great partition trapping you with no aisle exit and having to clamber over two other passengers in E and F to get out. Absolutely the worst seat on any aircraft IMHO.

 

[harvyk]

Nope

Worst seat on any aircraft ever has to be 36D on QF A380.... Next To Galley, toilet and a dirty great partition trapping you with no aisle exit and having to clamber over two other passengers in E and F to get out. Absolutely the worst seat on any aircraft IMHO.

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The 717 seat seems like a seat just because of the design of the aircraft, the A380 seat on the other hand looks like one installed so that check in agents have a way of punishing pax they don't like.

 

[medhead]

You need to train SWMBO that you do the seats.

 

[eastwest101]

The back row of the B717/DC9/F100/B727 is forgiveable, after all, the engines were designed at the rear.

But those A380 seats beggar belief, why is that divider there and who put it there? Is it only the QF A380s that have a divider there?

 

[TomVexille]

Yeah. As Ansett showed. 36D on the QF380 would be my vote.

That being said, I've had many a flight next to the engine of an MD-80 so I know exactly what you're talking about.

 

[YSSY]

Yeah. As Ansett showed. 36D on the QF380 would be my vote.

That being said, I've had many a flight next to the engine of an MD-80 so I know exactly what you're talking about.

I reckon it's because the toilet is opposite, smell+light when opening the door whilst cabin is darkened. A curtain might have been sufficient.

 

[vertisol]

You need to train SWMBO that you do the seats.

I love flying, the airport, everything about it when travelling weekly for work.

Throw in the family and a strong desire not to get into an argument within the first hour of our holiday and I 'went with the flow'...

 

[YSSY]

I hate flying on the 717, very small and uncomfortable.

 

[medhead]

I love flying, the airport, everything about it when travelling weekly for work.

Throw in the family and a strong desire not to get into an argument within the first hour of our holiday and I 'went with the flow'...

Even my SWMBO knows who does the airplane seats....

 

[mannej]

I hate flying on the 717, very small and uncomfortable.

Give me a 717 in Y anyday over a 737. 2-3 is much more favourable compared to 3-3.

 

[Pleb Status]

Any seat on a Metro III (SWM) is a very bad seat...... Flew on a few of these between TSV and ISA with Macair.

 

[boomy]

Give me a 717 in Y anyday over a 737. 2-3 is much more favourable compared to 3-3.

Only if you fly with someone, otherwise less chance to get a shadow.

 

[JessicaTam]

I love flying, the airport, everything about it when travelling weekly for work.

Throw in the family and a strong desire not to get into an argument within the first hour of our holiday and I 'went with the flow'...

And would she defer to you now?

 

[vertisol]

And would she defer to you now?

Well she did let me sort out the return 737 seating by myself securing 2 + shadow in row 7 A-C and 7D with shadow in 7E.

I suspect it was me holding the baby and minding 3yr old on the left hand side of the plane and her sitting all by herself on the right that won her over.

That said, eldest son was very disappointed that the IFE was 'grown up TV' on the dropdown screen and not the 717 iPad..

 

[medhead]

Off topic. But what's the 717 overhead space like?

 

[Pushka]

Even my SWMBO knows who does the airplane seats....

Lucky I'm the swmbo and MrP knows that with everything travel and IT.

That seat on the 380 looks horrific. I'd be claustrophobic in minutes.

 

[amaroo]

I love flying, the airport, everything about it when travelling weekly for work.

Throw in the family and a strong desire not to get into an argument within the first hour of our holiday and I 'went with the flow'...

LOL we've all been there!

 

[amaroo]

Nope

Worst seat on any aircraft ever has to be 36D on QF A380.... Next To Galley, toilet and a dirty great partition trapping you with no aisle exit and having to clamber over two other passengers in E and F to get out. Absolutely the worst seat on any aircraft IMHO.

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The person that designed that layout is still laughing...

 

[Deleted member 29185]

I hate flying on the 717, very small and uncomfortable.

I'd have the 717 over the ATR any day. I think the VA ATR seats are the worst commercial seats ever devised. I must admit though, on the few ATR flights I've suffered, I have found mild amusement watching everyone smack their heads into the open but misaligned overhead bin doors. Is that cruel?