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Nuff Said
My bold.
This is when a section of the C accommodation is declassified for the use of Y passengers, something that's only possible on larger aircraft with two totally separate C cabins and when all the genuine C passengers can be accommodated in one of them. Is it an op-up? No, but nice to have all the same.
Rather, they actually separated half of the J cabin into Y, and the other half, J. No curtain/galley served as a de facto threshold. The flight wasn't full, either...though perhaps they didn't want us to sit with the DPRK citizens.
Otherwise, your example has happened to me before, in Japan.