I flew first class on the upper deck a few times on BA transatlantic flights. That was very nice as there were few seats up there, it was like a little club. This was long before 9/11 so the pilots would leave the cockpit door open and welcomed short visits to the flight deck. The bevvie selection was always quite Impressive too. I had no issues with extensively sampling the offerings... start off in the Concorde lounge then roll onboard champagne glass in hand... the way airline travel should be...
I noticed early on that most of the passengers in business and first were pretty much assholes and were not particularly pleasant travel companions so I made it a point to chat up the FAs and hang with them some on the longer flights. It’s amazing how much better the experience was and how much fun it was to have those interactions with regular folks doing what was mostly a pretty boring job. Not to mention that won a bit of special treatment which some of the other passengers noticed... --FT Sent from iPhone > On Jul 16, 2021, at 7:30 AM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I flew them regularly to Europe (KLM) and Asia (Northwest) in business > class. I’ve never flown in a 747 in coach, thank goodness. > > One of the best flights I had in one, a -400 variant, was on a flight to > Schipol (Amsterdam) from Chicago. About 20 minutes into the flight my seat > back broke. The purser came up and was all pissed off because they apparently > put an emergency repair order in during the turnaround in Chicago and the FBO > folks claimed to have fixed it. Apparently not. > > First and business were full, so they told me I could go to coach on the main > deck. Nope, sorry, not an option for what the company was paying. The cabin > crew huddles, the purser goes into the flight deck and comes back out. > > “Would you come with me, please?” > > Since it was a trans-Atlantic flight there was only one crew on board, so the > crew bunk room on the upper deck just behind the flight deck was unoccupied. > They let me crash in there for the remainder of the flight. It was a little > cramped, but far more comfortable as I got to lay down in a bunk and watch > the movies. They were very apologetic and kept bringing me all sorts of > goodies to eat during the flight (I never drink when I fly, especially on > business.) Even got a really good nap or two in, too. > > Best flight ever. > > -D > >> On Jul 16, 2021, at 6:19 AM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> Yeah, that 747 was something else. >> >> I had the best and the worst seats in Tourist class on a trip to Germany -- >> back in those days you got your seat assignment at checkin, and I had lots >> of time in Chicago on the way over. Got a nice seat in the emergency exit >> row over the wing, a row of seats is removed for that. Infinite foot room. >> >> On the way back, my sister screwed around and I got to the Frankfort airport >> pretty late for an international flight, so got stuck in the last row, >> window seat. The fuselage taper intrudes on the floor space there, so I had >> a little triangle for my feet maybe 16x14x6". Horrible flight, left at 1:30 >> pm local time and arrived at 3:30 pm local time, passenger next to me chain >> smoked the whole trip. >> >> Great plane though, pilots loved them. >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
