Divorce Pending

[albatross710]

How about both travelling in Y and spending the "J" money on 5* luxury and meals for 1 week.

Mrs Alby & I prefer J when I can get it on points but we prefer to spend the folding stuff on other activities.

 

[oz_mark]

The question should be "have you been allowed to wander freely from Y to J"?

Maybe people don't notice it, but at the front of economy on a lot of aircraft is a notice stating that you can't proceed through to the business class section except in an emergency. Don't have the excat wording, but it is there.

 

[anat0l]

Maybe people don't notice it, but at the front of economy on a lot of aircraft is a notice stating that you can't proceed through to the business class section except in an emergency. Don't have the excat wording, but it is there.

It is there as a matter of course. I believe the percentage of the time it is actually followed and/or enforced is, however, appallingly small.

 

[NM]

Those may be the rules but I have not yet been refused to freely wander from J to Y for example. Another example was a steward offered to take me on a tour of the plane after meal service.

The question was not about walking through the aircraft. The comment was about "sharing" the business class seat - e.g. Wife in J and Husband in Y for first half, then swap seats. Its the swapping of seats between cabins that JB747 said is specifically not allowed. He was not comment on visiting people in another cabin.

 

[albatross710]

The question was not about walking through the aircraft. The comment was about "sharing" the business class seat - e.g. Wife in J and Husband in Y for first half, then swap seats. Its the swapping of seats between cabins that JB747 said is specifically not allowed. He was not comment on visiting people in another cabin.

Last year on SQ SIN-BNE i was sitting in the window seat and after discussions with the guy in the aisle seat we agreed it would be better to swap seats so he could sleep on the overnight flight as I was coming back from Europe and unlikely to be sleeping as much on that leg.

We were both pretty impressed to see that on the next pass through the cabin the SQ flight attendant recognised that we had swapped seats. They would certainly notice if we had changed cabins.

I was also able to be visited by my business associate whom was travelling in Y and were just waved past the J Pax only sign.

 

[drewbles]

Only problem is that SYD-SFO is serviced by (usually) a 2-class 744, which as you say means Y+ pax get Skybeds, but they are just that - Skybed Mk I, or Skyslopes. QF11 - barring an equipment swap - is serviced by a A380, which means Skybed Mk II.

Moreover, with a Y+ ticket it will mean Y+ service even though the physical seat is J. In saying that, there isn't much the OP would be missing out on in this case, except for lounge access, J amenity kit and J priority handling.

Every time i've flown QF73/74 it's been a full 4 class 747. QF73 on the 24th is indeed a 4 class service sold as 3. J is Zone A and upper deck only. The downstairs J cabin is sold as Y+. This is in stark contrast to last year where only 2 or so rows of Y+ were being sold as J with the rest of downstairs, zone A and upstairs being J.

I don't think i've ever seen a 2 class a/c operating this route.