Originally Posted by jasondc

In my experience flight attendants on Etihad are very use to seeing people from "lower" cabins come into the upper cabins. That is, though, this normally happens with Emiratis who are seated in F or J, while their servants/staff are in Y. I cant tell you the number of EY F flights I've been on from AUH to IAD or JFK where there was a family in F while their "servants" (normally Philipinos or Indonesians, sometimes Thai) were seated in Coach. In all cases, the second the plane took off, the servants would be up in First class attending to every single need of their employers. In many occasions, the flight attendants wouldnt even address the passengers in F, they'd do everything through the "sevants", and the servants would even serve their employers their meals. Sometimes I've even seen the servants buckle/ unbuckle their employers' seat belts.

Bottom line - it's not unusual to see movement between cabins on EY, though I'd still exercise discretion.