Upper deck on Queen of the Skies - a little excited

[bPeteb]

With the booking of our flights to SFO on Saturday came auto-allocation of seats on the upper deck of the 744. My inner plane geek (ok, it's plainly visible) was so excited when I went into manage my booking and 12A and 12K were allocated. Mine was revenue fare booked online and partner's reward flight booked over phone. Partner was allocated 12B going over but 12J wasn't available so we're in 15 coming back.

I have always wanted to fly upstairs on a jumbo and this will be our first and last opportunity before they head off to the American desert.

A tad excited

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

It does have a wow factor sitting upstairs on a 747.
I did it BNE - SYD as a domestic passenger on an international flight a long time ago now, when QF flew the US - BNE - SYD.

 

[Limewood]

Mrs Lime and I have flown most of the long haul aircraft like A380 and 777 on numerous occasions, but up in that 747 bubble, with so few seats, own cabin crew and loo and in the excellent MK11 seats, will have it any day over any others.

 

[eric2011]

Funny how different people have different thoughts. I go out of my way to avoid upstairs instead opting for the small cabin downstairs at the very front

 

[Limewood]

That it is...

 

[mviy]

Funny how different people have different thoughts. I go out of my way to avoid upstairs instead opting for the small cabin downstairs at the very front

I've done the cabin upstairs (2-2) config, the small cabin downstairs at the very front (2-2-2/2-2 config depending where you are sitting) and the larger cabin behind that one (2-3-2 config). One of the main attractions of the cabin in the nose downstairs is that on the non-refurb 747 you get lie flat seating whereas the other seats have angled flat. There's only one of those planes still flying so your chances of getting that are probably pretty low. On the refurbed planes the seats are lie flat in all 3 Business Class sections.

I think both the upstairs cabin and the one in the nose are very good and I'd avoid the larger cabin further back downstairs if possible (still a lot better than not being in J though).