Originally Posted by
sllevin
JL707 is often operated by a 3 class bird sold as two; you want to be seated in the first three rows (which was typically automatic for me if I was ticketed in JL D class). It was normally the old F coffins, but they were pretty good for sleeping in my book -- and the service in the "faux" F cabin was always very excellent.
How can you determine in advance if its a three-class sold as two, or a two-class configuration? And how can you get the F seats if the former?
My JL707 December 25 seemed to be a true two-class, from a quick peek into the nose as we boarded (it looked to be pairs of seats, not single ones, but perhaps I wasn't peeking far enough forward). It also had the old J seats and only one lav upstairs.
I was originally supposed to be on JL707 on the day before (December 24) and had been under the impression that it was a three-class sold as two, and had called JL to ask to be seated in the nose, and was told that those seats were reserved for JL's own frequent flyers.