Originally Posted by
maggieholls
My paranoia stems for reading all the horror stories about 241s (at the very least the companion) being first on the hit list should bumping be required.
That sort of thing isn't going to be solved by EF, and it's a disproportionate since you are vastly more likely to miss your flight due to problems getting to the airport. Looking at the numbers you are as good as zero chance of being downgraded, about 1 or 2 lucky CW passengers will be upgraded to First (if they can't be persuaded to pay for it). What you could do is arrive at T5 around 12:45 hrs since the 13:55 is wide open at the moment despite being G-RAES (presumably), the 8 seater First 777. Just 2 seats taken at the moment. But even that is an excess of caution.
The shroud waving by some entities about downgrading 2-4-1 is frankly a disgrace.