747 seating config (around 1993)
 

Please settle a bet for me.

In 93 I flew from LHR > LAX non stop on a 747. I was seated upstairs in a coach seat. It was Row 70 or 80 or so. My friend says that FC has always been upstairs.

I highly doubt it was FC as the seats were 3 to a row, and I had no status and wasn't even a member of the club.

That being said when did they move FC upstairs?

Thanks

First class is not upstairs on the 747 on BA

First class is in the nose.

The upper deck is a business class cabin.

The upper deck on the B744 had 66 economy seats in 1993.

Was that always the case or did it used to be coach up there? Did I score the mother of all upgrades? I was on a school trip at the time and I would find it odd that 4, 13-14 year olds all got an upgrade like that.

As CIHY says, it did. I flew in economy upstairs two or three times, both on the Classics and the 744.

The -200 had 12 CW seats and the -100 had 36 economy seats.

BA Club World c.1993 was like this:

I can't tell if the shots in this video are upstairs or not - probably just a studio mockup anyway.

I took my first long-haul flight in CW around this time (LHR-HKG), but I suspect it was either slightly earlier than 1993 or at least the roll-out was incomplete as there was definitely no seat-back video on my first trip. I was such a newbie that I bought sandwiches from Boots before I went to the T4 Club World lounge (is that what it was called at that time?) as I didn't know there would be any food or drink! :eek: I soon learned :D

I posted a seat map from a classic a while back. Y was indeed upstairs and I experienced it quite a few times back in the day.

I'm not at home at the moment but I have a timetable from the olden days and will post a seat map tomorrow

Flown upstairs in Y on 747 classic and when the 747-400s were new..... (BA)

South African had Y upstairs on their 747-400s in a 3-3 configuration. The exit row was great, particularly window seats as they had the same seat-side cupboard BA have in the UD.

Wasn't there some convertible seating up there at one stage, so that it could change between Y & CW? I seem to remember seeing joins in the back of the seats, like the Y / CE convertible seats.

Possibly, hifly, the old old old club on the Tristar had convertible seating for Y and super club.... Around a 37" pitch. Always tried to snuffle one of these seats flying back from Kenya in the 1980s..... (In Y)

Not on the -400, the convertible seats were pre CW and called Super Club.

And yet it was a great cabin to fly in. Flew once between yvr and lhr in 1997. Actually, Oct 1997 to be precise.

VS' leisure 744s still have eco (and prem eco) on the UD.