AF to discontinue Premium Economy on medium haul flights + other "improvements"
Aug 20, 2015, 6:57 am
#136
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Right. But if you are connecting to a long-haul flight with a seat in W, I do not know of it would work as the most significant segment would be in W. It is a tight one...
Aug 20, 2015, 7:30 am
#137
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So what? If you are downgraded on any segment, you are downgraded and entitled to downgrade compensation under Reg 261/2004 as long as the segment concerned is covered by Reg 261/2004, which CDG-IST clearly is. The only issue is the amount of compensation, namely whether there should be pro-rating or not. I can see arguments on both side on this. On whether there should be compensation (as distinct from determining the precise amount of that compensation), OTOH, this strikes me as an open-and-shut-book case.
Jul 16, 2017, 7:02 am
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A321s have been or are being retrofitted with the new leather seats, contrary to what was planned initially, and - this is the best part - USB ports have been installed in the seat armrests. Hopefully they will eventually install USB ports in the rest of the medium haul fleet.
Jul 16, 2017, 10:19 am
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A321s have been or are being retrofitted with the new leather seats, contrary to what was planned initially, and - this is the best part - USB ports have been installed in the seat armrests. Hopefully they will eventually install USB ports in the rest of the medium haul fleet.
Has the reconfiguration of the A319 fleet already been finished, and where do they stand on the A320s?
I am writing this being on board an A318, which I know has not been scheduled to be refitted but which needs it most. These NEO seats are a bad joke (unfortunately, my usual flights from CDG to LIN, ZRH, GVA, MUC see a lot of the baby buses, so >80% of my AF shorthaul experience is on them)
Jul 16, 2017, 2:29 pm
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Great news ^
Has the reconfiguration of the A319 fleet already been finished, and where do they stand on the A320s?
I am writing this being on board an A318, which I know has not been scheduled to be refitted but which needs it most. These NEO seats are a bad joke (unfortunately, my usual flights from CDG to LIN, ZRH, GVA, MUC see a lot of the baby buses, so >80% of my AF shorthaul experience is on them)
Has the reconfiguration of the A319 fleet already been finished, and where do they stand on the A320s?
I am writing this being on board an A318, which I know has not been scheduled to be refitted but which needs it most. These NEO seats are a bad joke (unfortunately, my usual flights from CDG to LIN, ZRH, GVA, MUC see a lot of the baby buses, so >80% of my AF shorthaul experience is on them)
Jul 16, 2017, 3:48 pm
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Jul 16, 2017, 11:33 pm
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Jul 17, 2017, 3:19 am
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I don't understand how they can have failed so badly with NEO. I had a few recent flights on NEO and EZY. Similar amount of space, but the shape of NEO is really awful (back hurts) and padding not good.
Jul 17, 2017, 7:34 am
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