Unsurprisingly, there was no upgrade.
Interestingly, at least to me, is that the seat availability went from A5 F5 D9 J9 just a few days before the flight to A0 F0 D3 J3 just a few hours before the flight. Now maybe that is typical and there could be many explanations - I haven´t watched a flight loading this closely before (even for previous upgrades) so it is all new to me.
One thing I did notice on board is that there seemed to be a lot of first time J flyers in J class. They were playing with the seats, trying to work out what the PJs were, etc, and generally having a great time. It kind of makes me wonder whether Y might have been oversold and a few people got op-ups to J?
Anyway this isn´t a trip report but I will just note in passing that the service was a little below par. The CSM was lovely and most of the crew were fairly friendly though with that increasingly common QF curtness that just doesn´t quite cut it as excellent service (the attitude seems most common in the male FAs). AVOD failed straight up and several attempts to fix it were unsuccessful so a call to maintenance in Sydney was required in order to do a full reboot. Two hours into the flight it came back up. But what really let the flight down for us was the wait of more than two hours for dinner. Before that we were given one drink and a packet of peanuts. The dinner service itself took a long time and consequently our daughter couldn´t sleep when she needed to.
Still we made it to EZE on time and in a fairly comfortable, if not a truly relaxing/enjoyable, way.
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when I woke up to check this morning at 7 am MNL time. Was not yet confirmed at 3 am.:shock:
When selecting seats, only 3 scattered seats were available to choose from.
