Originally Posted by
f4freeJunior
Whether it's 3, 4 or 5. It's just not enough.
As a pax who pays for F I do not want to wait 3 days for the next flight where F is available because I happened to need an additional day of work abroad.
Seriously, imagine you buy a fullfare F tix ZRH-SIN-ZRH at >10k CHF right? You intend to fly back from your meetings in Singapore, like I always do, Friday evening. Then for whatever reason, you need a little bit more time in the city, and you need to fly back on Saturday. That happens! Then they tell you, sorry Mr. fullfare paying HON, the next flight that has availability in F is on Wednesday...because we have only 3 seats in the cabin. Who accepts that??? Definitely not me.
I completely agree. I have the exact same concern.
This statement from LX
"They would like to offer up to 12 F seats on certain flights while zero on others. Hence the balance of 5." has got to be one of the "stupidest" things I have heard from an airline regarding F. Their inability to match their fleet to the relevant market means I am not going to rely on them as a carrier. It's not my problem! Regarding the comment upthread regarding keeping the seat numbers in F low, I get it, but I have had ZERO issues with EK F on the A380 with 14 pax. So it can be done, you just have to invest and spend resources. I am not suggesting going to 14, but less than 8 seats on the routes to JFK/EWR means that I can't count on LX to provide F service.