How to find out which seat is missing a window

[rpmsol]

I'm about to go MEL-LRH on QF9 and have seat 38A (unless my points upgrade comes through).
SeatGuru shows this seat as 'no window' but QF staff assure me it has a window. (When flying on 737's domestically, I find that staff advice on blocked window locations is not at all consistent.)

Does anyone know if QF009 usually uses aircraft with a real window in 38A?


And this is a secondary question - as it costs 96,000 points to upgrade to business (depending on availability), I'm wondering if it is better to upgrade MEL-LHR or LRH-MEL, if I limit myself to one upgrade. I'm heading out on QF9 at 17:05 returning on QF30 at 12:25.

Thanks and cheers,
Paul.

 

[NM]

I'm about to go MEL-LRH on QF9 and have seat 38A (unless my points upgrade comes through).
SeatGuru shows this seat as 'no window' but QF staff assure me it has a window. (When flying on 737's domestically, I find that staff advice on blocked window locations is not at all consistent.)

Does anyone know if QF009 usually uses aircraft with a real window in 38A?

I believe Seaqtguru is correct. No window at seats 38A or 38K. The only 747-400 config that has seats as row 38 is the 14F, 50J, 315Y configuration, and that is the model I that normally operate the LHR flights. The 64J version does not have rows 37 through 41.

And this is a secondary question - as it costs 96,000 points to upgrade to business (depending on availability), I'm wondering if it is better to upgrade MEL-LHR or LRH-MEL, if I limit myself to one upgrade. I'm heading out on QF9 at 17:05 returning on QF30 at 12:25.

I suggest waitlisting for both upgrades. Then if the first is successful you can always cancel the request for the return flight. But if the first does not clear, at least you have the return waitlist to hope for.

 

[littl_flier]

The seatmap on Qantas for the 50J config also shows the view as being restricted- ie. the window is in between the seat infront so you would only get half and half. Not sure how accurate this is.

Upgrade wise, I would follow NM's advice but the MEL-LHR is slightly longer so could be percieved as better value. It might be tough going back to whY though.

Good luck!

 

[rpmsol]

Thanks very much for the advice. I'll put in a request to change 38A, and add both upgrade requests as well.
Cheers,
Paul.