QF187 SYD-HKG on Friday

[N860CR]

Does anyone have the facilities to check which aircraft is operating SYD-HKG QF187 this Friday (10th). Bad enough getting stuck on the 76, so I'm hoping for an upgraded one.

What are the J loads like? Would be double bad being stuck down the back!

 

[straitman]

Does anyone have the facilities to check which aircraft is operating SYD-HKG QF187 this Friday (10th). Bad enough getting stuck on the 76, so I'm hoping for an upgraded one.

What are the J loads like? Would be double bad being stuck down the back!

danielribo,

Expert Flyer has QF 187 on Fri showing as a A332 with J9 and Y0 with quite a few unallocated seats in Y.

Seatcounter.com has J9 & Y9

Not sure where the difference lies.

 

[Travel Guru]

Ive got it listed in Galileo GDS as a 767-300

Currently 11 seats left in Business.

TG

 

[straitman]

Interesting difference. Not sure who to believe but probably Travel Guru & Galileo GDS

 

[Travel Guru]

Interesting difference. Not sure who to believe but probably Travel Guru & Galileo GDS

Looks like it operates on an A330 every day but Fridays where it's on a 767...EF probably just hasn't picked up on it.

TG

 

[Evan]

Thats one to remember, i thought all services like SYD-HKG would be A333/A332's or B744's. I would hate to make that error if i was flying J, if in whY then little difference to me.
E

 

[straitman]

Well I worked it out.

Doh :!:

I looked up the 10th (per the original post) which is a 332, whereas Friday is actually the 7th which shows correctly as a 763 on both Seatcounter and EF

 

[N860CR]

haha yes stupid me, coming back on monday 10th on the overnight 744. Again hoping for a light J load. I guess can't complain much about J in the 76 when its not costing anything

 

[N860CR]

Just signed up to expertflyer soI don't have to harass all the time! Flight 187 seems fairly open... but when I look at the seat map with code "J", it only shows 8 vacant seats... why would that be when the availability is more than 8?

 

[simongr]

If there had been F on the aircraft I would have said that they were willing to oversell J and op-up to F but then we do have to remember the old addage "the seat map is horrendously unreliable"...

 

[N860CR]

Ok fair enough. So the safe bet would be to ignore the seatmap and trust the booking classes which show the flight as pretty wide open?

 

[milehighclub]

QF187 on Friday is a 767 and has about 50 spare economy seats and about 11 in business

QF128 on Monday is a 747 and has about 70 spare economy seats, 16 spare business class seats and 10 first