[First FT Pictures] G-VIIX refurbishment [LGW B772, including 3-4-3 seating in WT]
Mar 8, 2018, 5:06 pm
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Are the headphone sockets still in the armrest in Y? To be honest, this in singularly the most silly place to put them since they get whacked all the time - and from experience most don't work properly (need wriggling around or pushed to get any contact). Far better to put it near the screen (in Y that's the thing 6" from your face) - and surely would also save weight on all that wiring loom too.
Mar 8, 2018, 9:02 pm
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Are the headphone sockets still in the armrest in Y? To be honest, this in singularly the most silly place to put them since they get whacked all the time - and from experience most don't work properly (need wriggling around or pushed to get any contact). Far better to put it near the screen (in Y that's the thing 6" from your face) - and surely would also save weight on all that wiring loom too.
Mar 8, 2018, 9:04 pm
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Mar 9, 2018, 12:43 am
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Mar 9, 2018, 2:40 am
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Minor 'first-world' niggles...
A bit O/T but group boarding was a laugh. At KIN the lounge passengers are escorted to the gate by staff. As we went along the 1/4 mile journey we heard group 1 & 2 being called, then 1,2,3,4 and then 1,2,3,4,5 so by the time all the group 1 / 2s got to the gate the plane was boarding 4/5s. There was a separate priority line for 1/2/3.
Being brisk walkers, I think we were in about the first 10 on board [having been SEQ 001/002 out of the Lounge!!]. I can only assume those who beat us were gate lice who had [possibly] left the lounge early!
There were a number of 'anomalies' including Seat 1H footstool going technical;
On boarding a 'yellow jacket' warned me that my footstool in 4B was very stiff and hard to deploy. In fact, there was no problem at all.
... my dividing screen needing to be lifted by hand to make it engage, the fact they hadn't loaded enough CW amenity kits so I got one and Mrs. Firstlight didn't.
Didn't use the divider, as I love my wife
And we both got amenity kits (which we didn't bother to keep].
More unforgivable was the lack of hotel chocolat on Mrs. Firstlight's dinner service
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No chocolates in 4A/B either
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My IFE reset a couple of times but possibly due to the APU starting up it was OK during the flight and the film selection was significantly better than the journey out. I didn't see anyone in CW with a faulty IFE.
As noted earlier, same in 4A, where OH had no sound. Eventually the Rep rebooted both our seats, after which 4A was fine.
Minor 'first-world' niggles...
A bit O/T but group boarding was a laugh. At KIN the lounge passengers are escorted to the gate by staff. As we went along the 1/4 mile journey we heard group 1 & 2 being called, then 1,2,3,4 and then 1,2,3,4,5 so by the time all the group 1 / 2s got to the gate the plane was boarding 4/5s. There was a separate priority line for 1/2/3.
Being brisk walkers, I think we were in about the first 10 on board [having been SEQ 001/002 out of the Lounge!!]. I can only assume those who beat us were gate lice who had [possibly] left the lounge early!
There were a number of 'anomalies' including Seat 1H footstool going technical;
On boarding a 'yellow jacket' warned me that my footstool in 4B was very stiff and hard to deploy. In fact, there was no problem at all.
... my dividing screen needing to be lifted by hand to make it engage, the fact they hadn't loaded enough CW amenity kits so I got one and Mrs. Firstlight didn't.
Didn't use the divider, as I love my wife
And we both got amenity kits (which we didn't bother to keep].More unforgivable was the lack of hotel chocolat on Mrs. Firstlight's dinner service
. No chocolates in 4A/B either
...
My IFE reset a couple of times but possibly due to the APU starting up it was OK during the flight and the film selection was significantly better than the journey out. I didn't see anyone in CW with a faulty IFE.
As noted earlier, same in 4A, where OH had no sound. Eventually the Rep rebooted both our seats, after which 4A was fine.
Mar 9, 2018, 4:01 am
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Mar 9, 2018, 4:43 am
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Were the hard-shells of CW replaced in their entirety? Or was it just a refit of seat covers and IFE? Did this also occur on the refurb super J 747s?
Mar 9, 2018, 5:04 am
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Mar 9, 2018, 9:04 am
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It's a shame they couldn't expedite the process of having direct aisle access in CW from 2019 if they're pulling off full interior refurbs this year, especially on 3 class aircraft where First isn't an option for those of us that don't want to have to climb over other peoples feet/have our feet stood on in the middle of the night 
Mar 9, 2018, 10:05 am
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Although there were fewer toilets there are also fewer CW passengers so did not notice a particular problem. The interior of the CW toilets (e.g. toilet seat / plastic fascia) also seem to have been updated to the new scheme.
Mar 9, 2018, 10:17 am
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@T8191
... my dividing screen needing to be lifted by hand to make it engage, the fact they hadn't loaded enough CW amenity kits so I got one and Mrs. Firstlight didn't.
"Didn't use the divider, as I love my wife"
So do I which is why we have the middle seats in CW traveling together, traveling for work on my own you will have to prise 4A / 4K out of my cold dead hands...
... my dividing screen needing to be lifted by hand to make it engage, the fact they hadn't loaded enough CW amenity kits so I got one and Mrs. Firstlight didn't.
"Didn't use the divider, as I love my wife
"So do I which is why we have the middle seats in CW traveling together, traveling for work on my own you will have to prise 4A / 4K out of my cold dead hands...
Mar 9, 2018, 10:59 am
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