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Old May 22, 2011 | 4:02 am
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mkgrip
 
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Originally Posted by ek&sq
Whats your source regarding the SIN operations?
If true, it'd be a real shame and utter stupidity that they'd want to enter a new (premium heavy) market with their inferior product. I hope this is not the case and that they do a shuffle around so more leisure oriented routes like BKK get the ex-AF birds instead.
This:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/finna...l#post16325266

I don't know what Ed Sizes source is an how reliable that is- Could be just a rumor.
There have also been rumors (including in the linked thread) that the ex-AF cabins will be refurbished to the "real AY product" but I have no idea when exactly, and I haven't seen anything definitive from AY on this.

I guess I could also copy a tip from Ed Size from that thread that if you can find a seat map of your flight, you can recognize the old AF planes from the fact that they don't have seats 1A and 1C. According to the the seat-maps there is a similar tell-tale difference in whY aswell: the last row in economy in regular AY birds is 56, whereas the ex-AF birds also have 57.
Of course EQ changes do happen, and the earlier you look at this, the less reliable the info is.

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