Author Bio:
Keith Jones is the founder of Baja Jones Adventures, Jones Adventures, Tigress Tours in Thailand and Butanding Tours in the Philippine Islands and has led thousands of people to Mexico and other interesting locations around the world. He specializes in gray whale tour, blue whale tour, gray and blue whale combo tour, giant panda bear tour, walk a tiger tour, shark tour, African safari tour, African gorilla trek, arctic narwhal tour and Magdalena Bay whale watching tour. He also writes about Baja travel and gray whales. Keith Jones is the author of Gray Whales My Twenty Years of Discovery.
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Choosing extra leg space seats on airplanes; what to choose
and what not to choose:
A. I avoid bulkhead seats. Why?
They do have slightly more legroom, if you don’t mind staring at a blank
wall for 2, 4, or 12 hours. BUT bulkheads
now have attachment devices for baby cribs.
Once the plane is in the air, the infant can be placed into one of those
airline cribs. Great for the parents of
the screaming, crying, whining infant who doesn’t understand why her ears
hurt. But terrible for the flyer who
wants peace and quiet for the duration of his or her flight. I try to get as far away from bulkheads as
possible. Airlines now typically pre-assign families with infants to these
bulkhead seats.
B. If choosing exit row seating, check with a
website such as seatguru.com to see if the window seat has impaired leg room
due to interference from part of the door.
On some planes such as 747s the door frame intrudes into the passenger
leg space, forcing the poor soul sitting in that seat to sit a little bit
skewed sideways.
C. When choosing an exit row seat that is
adjacent to the restrooms, you will be kicked, bumped and harassed by the crowd
of people waiting their turn to use the toilets. These seats are also noisy. Be aware of this when choosing these
seats. If you are a person slight of
frame or short in the legs, then one of the standard economy seats might be
more comfortable for you over the length of the flight.
D. My first choice of seats on long flights is
an exit row seat adjacent to the galley (kitchen area). These seats do have some noise from the
flight attendants, but seldom do they have people standing in the large open
area where I like to stretch my legs. On
the flight I commonly take from LAX to ICN I fly Asiana which uses a 747-400 on
this route. The galley seat I really
like on this flight is #48J. And it is a
2 seat row, not 3 seats wide so the aisle is wider, thus my knees don’t get
banged by serving carts if I fall asleep.
(I always choose aisle, not window seating).
E. If there are seats on the right and left side
of the airplane that are equally satisfactory to you, then choose the left side
seats. Surveys show that approximately
60% of passengers will choose seats on the right side of the airplane. This means when choosing a left side seat,
you have a slightly better chance of having a seat with nobody sitting next to
you. Again, I want to get every inch of
good seating opportunity that I can find.
This little known fact just help improve your odds of not bumping elbows
with someone for 12 hours.
To read seatguru.com seat choice tips (the above tips are
mine) check out this link:
Good luck on your next journey
Keith Jones
Baja Jones Adventure Travel
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