JAL Mileage Bank - Seating in C for JL 404 LHR-NRT

Spent the morning doing searches and various research, but still couldn’t find an answer. Hope someone can help out.

I’ll be taking JL404 or JL402 LHR-NRT in early December. 404 is better for me time-wise but it doesn’t seem there is F class on that aircraft. What is the aircraft configuration for 404? I checked SeatGuru and SeatExpert and neither shows a 777 configuration for international flights with only C and no F. I went to the JAL website and it shows there are three configurations for the 777-200ER --- W51, W50 and W32 (gosh, the number of JAL aircraft configurations is enough to make your head spin; seems terribly inefficient to me, but that’s another topic). Which is the configuration for 404?

And does anyone have any particular seat recommendations for C on this flight?

Or is this flight served by a 777-300ER and a few lucky people who bought C class will end up with F seats?

Is F class on 402 that much better than C on 404 to make the inconvenience to me worthwhile?

Thanks!

Spent the morning doing searches and various research, but still couldn’t find an answer. Hope someone can help out.

I’ll be taking JL404 or JL402 LHR-NRT in early December. 404 is better for me time-wise but it doesn’t seem there is F class on that aircraft. What is the aircraft configuration for 404? I checked SeatGuru and SeatExpert and neither shows a 777 configuration for international flights with only C and no F. I went to the JAL website and it shows there are three configurations for the 777-200ER --- W51, W50 and W32 (gosh, the number of JAL aircraft configurations is enough to make your head spin; seems terribly inefficient to me, but that’s another topic). Which is the configuration for 404?

And does anyone have any particular seat recommendations for C on this flight?

Or is this flight served by a 777-300ER and a few lucky people who bought C class will end up with F seats?

Is F class on 402 that much better than C on 404 to make the inconvenience to me worthwhile?

Thanks!

They use 777-200ER with W51 (http://www.jal.co.jp/en/aircraft/conf/777er.html) on 403/404. That's the only one with premium economy. The other two configs, one is for long haul and one for regional flights.

The other LHR flights uses 777-300ER with W73 (http://www.jal.co.jp/en/aircraft/conf/777.html) config. So the F class is the Solo seat.

Thanks for the info JALPak.

This, however, may become a moot point after Dec 7, as an article in The Japan Times today said that JAL will halve frequency to LHR to one flight a day.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20091022a3.html

Or is this flight served by a 777-300ER and a few lucky people who bought C class will end up with F seats?

Is F class on 402 that much better than C on 404 to make the inconvenience to me worthwhile?

Thanks!

I did 404 on a 773ER last month, with a nice seat in 3K. I called JAL after booking the ticket to select that row just incase there was any chance of being in an F seat.

To be perfectly honest I found it difficult to sleep on and the IFE interfered with meals. The standard C seat would have done just fine...

Thanks for the info JALPak.

This, however, may become a moot point after Dec 7, as an article in The Japan Times today said that JAL will halve frequency to LHR to one flight a day.

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20091022a3.html

Only C Class is available for booking from 07DEC09. Which I assume it's an indication of dropping JL403/404

http://airlineroute.net/2009/10/23/jl-tocut-2nd-nrtlhr/

Only C Class is available for booking from 07DEC09. Which I assume it's an indication of dropping JL403/404

http://airlineroute.net/2009/10/23/jl-tocut-2nd-nrtlhr/

Yes I think JL403/404 would be the ones to drop. JAL only adds those flights after axing KIX-LHR in March. But it's weird why JAL only clear out Y and PY inventory on 403 but not C? Are they trying to get people reserve a C seat on those flights and then say "sorry we cancel it but we can put you on 401 instead" :p

Yes I think JL403/404 would be the ones to drop. JAL only adds those flights after axing KIX-LHR in March. But it's weird why JAL only clear out Y and PY inventory on 403 but not C? Are they trying to get people reserve a C seat on those flights and then say "sorry we cancel it but we can put you on 401 instead" :p

Same issue with JAL flights to MEX from 28MAR10. Only Business Class open but Economy class is Closed.