<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by ozstamps:
He did it all in coach, and of course was one of UA's biggest flyers from here. He told me Sales Dept approached him now and again with offers of OP upgrades where possible, [hoping like heck he'd never defect to QF!] but oddly he did not like the UA biz seats, and instead did a deal with them that they'd always if space allowed block him off a full centre row of coach seats so he could lay flat and sleep. This would show as officially blocked on manifest, and others could not use them. He preferred that! He was a quiet doctor type, and very unassuming.</font>
My dad told me the exact same story about his personal business travel years ago (he was an international business consultant for cross-border startup issues or something like that) where he preferred to have the block of coach seats instead of business, and would have them hold the seats for him. Only if they absolutely had to sell them would it be done, and then they'd move him up to C/F. He said the sleep was much better across the multiple coach seats.