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I booked a flight AMS-MRS, MRS-CDG-AMS and paid for a business fare that booked into a C fare.
Now, when selecting my seat AMS-MRS, it is a Y-only cabin. how is this even possible?
Not only that, 90% of the seats are actually blocked. EF shows open seats up front and essentially everything behind row 5 is blocked but the AF site only showed 2 seats open - 10A and 10F.
Is this normal practice for AF?
Now, when selecting my seat AMS-MRS, it is a Y-only cabin. how is this even possible?
Not only that, 90% of the seats are actually blocked. EF shows open seats up front and essentially everything behind row 5 is blocked but the AF site only showed 2 seats open - 10A and 10F.
Is this normal practice for AF?
#5
Interesting as they are obviously selling J fares... and now the Y fare is so expensive that there is no point in trying to change. Glad I paid 800 euros for my business fare.
Wish I had known as I would have taken another route/airline. First and last time I am flying AF intra europe.
Wish I had known as I would have taken another route/airline. First and last time I am flying AF intra europe.
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Wish I had known as I would have taken another route/airline. First and last time I am flying AF intra europe.
This must be a mistake for the AMS/MRS. Only domestic flights have no C cabin (such as MRS/CDG)Originally Posted by avi8tir
Interesting as they are obviously selling J fares... and now the Y fare is so expensive that there is no point in trying to change. Glad I paid 800 euros for my business fare. Wish I had known as I would have taken another route/airline. First and last time I am flying AF intra europe.
For the seat assignment, try KLM website.
If it does not work, it will be possible when you OLCI, but it should work.
#7
MSPeconomist , Apr 21, 2017 6:48 am
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AFAIK all domestic AF flights are one class, coach only. If your destination is anywhere in France other than Paris, you need to take a flight from AMS and not connect through Paris.
I suspect that a business class AF ticket, even if domestic with no business class cabin, gets you lounge access. It worked that way for me a long time ago on some Air Europa flight that was one class but sold/ticketed as business class without warning.
I suspect that a business class AF ticket, even if domestic with no business class cabin, gets you lounge access. It worked that way for me a long time ago on some Air Europa flight that was one class but sold/ticketed as business class without warning.
#8
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That is what the OP did:Originally Posted by MSPeconomist
AFAIK all domestic AF flights are one class, coach only. If your destination is anywhere in France other than Paris, you need to take a flight from AMS and not connect through Paris. (...)
- AMS/MRS : direct European flight (not domestic) so should have C.
- MRS/CDG/AMS : he will be in Y on the domestic segment and C on CDG/AMS.
P.S. You do not "need" to take a direct flight from AMS. You CAN (when they exist), as there is not always a direct flights from every French city to AMS. Many times, you HAVE to fly through CDG (or even worse ORY).
#9
2015 I took a leg from LHR-CDG in business. Except not business class like your map shows. There were two of us. We got seat A and C. B was left empty. I guess that was our business class.
#10
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Your guess is correct. This is the standard configuration on European flights, whichever the airline with 3-3 seat plan : the middle seat is blocked and service on board is better than behind the curtain (there is usually a curtain separating C and Y cabins).Originally Posted by EmptyKim
2015 I took a leg from LHR-CDG in business. Except not business class like your map shows. There were two of us. We got seat A and C. B was left empty. I guess that was our business class.
If 2-2 (like E190), there there is no blocked seat.
To the OP avi8tir : did you try KLM website? Are you making any progress? It is OK to come here to complain and ask for advice, but some feedback would be nice.
#11
I spoke with Air France again and they were zero help.
I kept asking the question, "How can you sell a business class C fare on a flight that is coach only??"
The response was negligible. KL site was no different than the AF site... same issue.
I'll likely cancel and just go Alitalia through FCO --- I can deal with Y, but it's a matter of principal at this point.
I kept asking the question, "How can you sell a business class C fare on a flight that is coach only??"
The response was negligible. KL site was no different than the AF site... same issue.
I'll likely cancel and just go Alitalia through FCO --- I can deal with Y, but it's a matter of principal at this point.
#12
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I kept asking the question, "How can you sell a business class C fare on a flight that is coach only??"
The response was negligible. KL site was no different than the AF site... same issue.
I'll likely cancel and just go Alitalia through FCO --- I can deal with Y, but it's a matter of principal at this point.
Sorry but I do not get it.Originally Posted by avi8tir
I spoke with Air France again and they were zero help. I kept asking the question, "How can you sell a business class C fare on a flight that is coach only??"
The response was negligible. KL site was no different than the AF site... same issue.
I'll likely cancel and just go Alitalia through FCO --- I can deal with Y, but it's a matter of principal at this point.
What is a "negligible" answer"?
Does this flight have a biz class cabin or not?
Is the issue with the flight itself (i.e. no C class cabin) or with the plane map?
#14
irishguy28 , Apr 21, 2017 8:01 pm
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Now, when selecting my seat AMS-MRS, it is a Y-only cabin. how is this even possible?
On AF and KL, as is the norm for European airlines, there is only one type of seat. A movable curtain separates busines from economy; its location changes from flight to flight, as demand requires.Originally Posted by avi8tir
I booked a flight AMS-MRS, MRS-CDG-AMS and paid for a business fare that booked into a C fare. Now, when selecting my seat AMS-MRS, it is a Y-only cabin. how is this even possible?
There is no separate, fixed-size business cabin with differentiated seating as on US carriers.
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Is this normal practice for AF?
As you have a business ticket, you are restricted to choosing a seat in the front of the cabin, which is where all business class customers are seated. You cannot sit in an economy row, which at this time and for your flight means row 6 and back.Originally Posted by avi8tir
Not only that, 90% of the seats are actually blocked. EF shows open seats up front and essentially everything behind row 5 is blocked but the AF site only showed 2 seats open - 10A and 10F. Is this normal practice for AF?
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You will be restricted to the front of the cabin in the same manner as on AF or KL.Originally Posted by avi8tir
I'll likely cancel and just go Alitalia through FCO --- I can deal with Y, but it's a matter of principal at this point.
Can you explain what AF told you?
There is a C cabin on your AF flight, so which issue are you facing that AF cannot solve?