Originally Posted by
law dawg
Perhaps they would, but it wouldn't do much good, because they'd be too far back to matter.
Being Y doesn't automatically mean that they're in the last row. You know, there is a first row of coach on a lot of planes that's right behind row 2 in F. A319's and 737's come to mind on UA.
But then again, if having a FAM meant a plane wasn't going to fall out of the sky, well, we'd have planes falling out of the sky all the time.
Exerda already explained the timing difference and I agree with him.
BTW, do you know how often FAMs fly in C? More often than you think, I bet.
I'd be willing to bet that it's because:
1. On many 747's, upstairs is usually C so by the "view of the cockpit", they'd be useless in F. This is one case where Y generally wouldn't work either.
2. There are international 2 cabin flights (LAX-SIN on SQ comes to mind) that are pretty much C and not F. If there's no F, they have to fly C.