KLM 787-9 business seating for family
We are two adults and two 2-year-old toddlers planning to fly a long flight with KLM 787-9. This will be our first flight with the kids, so we are trying to make it as easy on them as possible. We found reasonably priced tickets for business class, but are wondering which seats would work best. We found this layout on KLM page:
We are considering either the 4 seats in the middle (e.g. 3D, 3G, 4D, 4G) or the 4 seats across the hallway (e.g. 3A, 3D, 4A, 4D). The goal is to have easy access to the toddlers.
I found for example this picture online: https://www.airteamimages.com/boeing-787_PH-BHD_klm---royal-dutch-airlines_247481.html And from that it looks like it is not possible to cross easily between the seats in the middle.
Does anybody have experience with this kind of seating?
Best Answer
It's not an ideal layout and I don't think there is a single right answer.
I would probably go with two rows in the middle and seat kids and parents diagonally. So you have one parent sitting next to the kid (although with limited physical access) and the other before or behind, i.e. they can quickly have full access to the child through the same isle if needed.
"Interacting" across the isle is not great: you can't even help them change the movie when the seat belts are on and sometimes the isle is blocked during service.
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Answer 2
Just looking at the diagram and photo, I'd say across-the-aisle is what you want.
Consider this: If you're seated in the middle next to a child also in the middle, and that child decides to get up and run around, how are you going to get over to the other aisle to handle it?
If I were you, I'd pick two rows with seats across the aisle from each other, and perhaps put parents at the corners and toddlers at the other corners, so each parent has a toddler in front or behind and a toddler across the aisle.
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