DocWatson

Oh yes, I played this game last week as my director (Silver) shuffled back to row 7. My grin hurt.

Globaliser

The curtain can continue to move until just before departure, and certainly does often move long after online check-in has opened. That's why it's curtain roulette.

headingwest

Who moves the curtain?

NickB

Perhaps not the best seat but the worst seat?
Now that the compressed free B seat in the first row is no longer with us on most planes (and moreover, last minute curtain movements seem more frequent), I tend to seat myself in the second row of economy rather than the first. However, I would still rather be in the first row of Y and deal with those "annoying curtains" (I have never found them especially annoying but to each their own) than in any seat in the back of the cabin. I do not particularly relish having to wait seated in row 34 something for 150-odd pax to leisurely make their way off the plane before me. I also tend to prefer getting my drink towards the earlier stages of flight rather than minutes before the 10 mins to landing call.

Guvner067

corporate-wage-slave

Well they would never allow Ms. Phobia's eyes to alight upon them, but there is the new enhanced A319 25A/25B "naughty step" seats, minus windows, leg room, recline and in direct line with the sole EuroTraveller WC. I think they are a little worse....

nufnuf77

What curtain? I thought the curtain does not exist anymore at least on my recent flights....

ANAmateur

Can you? I have an F booking for me and my family. Manage my booking lets me put myself in 1K, but I can't put anyone else in 1A without a warning that I have to contact the local office. Called BA and they said as I was the only gold holder, only I could book row 1, until T-72. So I booked 1K 2A 2K 3K about 6 months ago. Check today and they have moved me to the middle 5 and 4 rows and given 2A to someone else, b*strds. So I have moved back to 1-4K. Not ideal and no real justification for BA messing about with my seat allocation, certainly nothing to do with equipment changes or curtain moves.

headingwest

Well I haven't seen Kermit yet on any of my flights, but I've seen a few muppets.

My question was, who actually moves the curtain, is it the crew or do they have special curtain moving technicians who perform the task?

LTN Phobia

I have to agree they'd be worse, although I have to say I've never been that far back in the last few years. I must explore them one day - might even try one for a giggle.

For me, proximity to the loo would be the worst aspect of it, because I don't recline on short haul anyway (unless the seat behind me is vacant and I don't want to remain asleep until after the seat belt sign comes on before landing) and I'm short anyway, so the legroom probably doesn't matter too much and the window shades come down as soon as possible

V10

It's worth checking once out of morbid fascination, in a rubbernecking at carnage sort of way, just to reinforce the idea that you never, ever want to end up in those seats.

A member of crew the other day told a possibly apocryphal story of a dad travelling with young son on first flight that booked the rendition row so as to sit together and allow the son to look out of the window. Alas, they were to find the reality was a little disappointing on boarding.

XCstud

I guess it can move, just find it surprising that it would in this case.

To top it off my great flight experience, they had run out of still water and ice by the time they got to my row.

Globaliser

Why do you think that your flight would have been any different from any other short-haul flight, on which the curtain routinely moves long after online check-in has opened (as demonstrated by countless threads and posts on FT)?

Foltan

I think he was talking about Short-Haul CE Row 1 whereas you're presumably referring to a Longhaul F row 1, which is usually reserved for GCH only (certainly on the 744 anyway)