CX: Claim couple used crew area to join 'mile-high club'

[chooms]

Claim Cathay Pacific passengers used crew area to join 'mile-high club'
Sydney Morning Herald

Claim couple used crew area to join 'mile-high club'

April 20, 2009 - 10:22AM

Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific said on Sunday it was investigating claims that a couple travelling First Class from Toronto used the crew rest area in a Boeing 777 to join the "mile-high club."

A purser allegedly invited the couple to use the off-limits area to have sex when he saw them getting intimate in their seats that fold out into beds in the new-style First Class cabin.

The passenger, an American doctor in his 20s, posted pictures on a blog of himself lying on the bunk - used by pilots to rest between shifts on long-haul flights - as evidence of what he calls his "amorous adventure."

 

[samh004]

Apparently this is the trip report. However the TR was posed on Google Documents and I can't seem to get access to it, perhaps he's taken it down.

The comments reveal some interesting things, one that I picked out was the sheets he's resting on in the photo (in the crew rest area) are apparently Shanghai Tang sheets (what you'd get in first class) and likely not what you'd get in the crew rest area. It's not like you're going to take your sheets with you.

He also says he was asked if he wanted to use the crew rest area upstairs... upstairs in a 777? I don't even know where the rest areas are and how big they are, but I know there's only one level on a 777 (not including cargo).

 

[oz_mark]

He also says he was asked if he wanted to use the crew rest area upstairs... upstairs in a 777? I don't even know where the rest areas are and how big they are, but I know there's only one level on a 777 (not including cargo).

May well be upstairs

http://www.boeing.com/commercial/news/feature/images/osuk62460_n.jpg

 

[samh004]

Seems like that'd require a lot of effort to get to. I'm assuming here they don't have a nice spiral staircase to get up there?!

 

[pauly7]

There is something about this story that I'm not buying.... but if it is true it is an incredbile lapse of judgement and terrible PR for Cathay*

*conversely some people might think its a great perk!