Originally Posted by
PUCCI GALORE
Ah - now thats very interesting. Him Indoors and I often asked for the smoking row even thought we did not smoke. Those smoking in there would fill the cabin with their digusting smoke. We figured that if we sat there and did not smoke then at least one side of the aircraft would be smoke free, This was really most unkind of us and we did not regret it one iota. Requests to swap were met with a firm No. I am so so glad that those days are well behind us.
When I flew on Qantas 747s in the 1980s, I remember that the smoking seats were on the left side of the aircraft.
I often flew on BA's 747-200s between SEA and London into the late 1990s, and often snagged an economy seat on the upper deck. On one return to SEA on Thanksgiving Day, the aircraft was about half-full, and I had a row of seats to myself.