Originally Posted by
sadiqhassan
As far as I know, all planes originally are sold as if they were refurbished planes because if they didn't EK might oversell the F cabin (18 vs 12 seats.) As Emirates777 said, you will only find out 3 days before.
If the EK website says TV and Radio, I'd take that as saying there is a good chance it is going to be an old 777-300. There is no plane that was Tv and Radio but with the new 77W style seats in F.
Cheers,
With Emirates, esp. with regards to aircraft/seating on a given route, the volatility in last minute aircraft changes is probably higher than that seen in the financial stock markets these days.
I just flew back into LHR on EK005 tonight. The aircraft was supposed to be an old config 773 - i had it confirmed 12hrs in advance and it should have been A6-EMV. 18 seats all sold out in F.
When i looked at flight ops details at 1330 at the airport, there was a change. In fact not only my flight changed but loads of others -- some got switched from 3-class to 2-class. What was strange was that there were no extraordinary events such as weather, to cause such a big upset to the system. Furthermore, around 6 or 7 flights boarded from remote stands -- which was dumbfounding given how many free gates there were esp during the quieter afternoon. To put things into perspective even EK003 boarded from a remote stand which must have been a first !
I got lucky - our aircraft got switched to A6-EMS - a refurbished plane. Some unfortunate pax got downgraded from F to J etc. We did encounter a one hour delay as the inbound from MLE/CMB had to be turned around.
Hopefuly things should improve on the 773 front by September when all the aircraft will have been refurbed.
Rgds
Emirates777