Seats on UD
 

Hi All,

After experiencing a number of problems trying to select my seats for my flights in September (see 'Seat Selection' thread), I finally have them assigned - 84A & 84K on both outbound & inbound.

Can anyone tell me if these seats are on the UD please? I can see them on Expedia.com as 'occupied seats' but can't tell if they are UD or not. Also, are these seats ok for a couple to be able to chat to each other?

Many thanks

Hi,

The seats are on the upper deck. As to chatting, all the business seats on Cathay make that hard due to the high walls but not impossible. :)

Hi rxziebel,
Thank you, much appreciated. If chatting is difficult, I'll just have to ignore the hubby :D

Hi LadyB, the CX 747 seatmap can be found at http://www.cathaypacific.com/cx/imag...e/747_400A.gif

Hi, I have UD seats reserved as well - didn't have access to the seat map and booked 82A, 83A. Would booking A & K instead make chatting a bit easier or not?
Thanks!

Chatting would be possible but not very private for you and annoying for passengers around you as you'll be shouting across the width of the upper deck ;)

82A/83A: One of you have to stand up to talk.
82A/82K: One of you have to walk over to talk.

In either case, you cannot talk with or see each other in your normal seat positions.

You will have plenty of time to enjoy each other's company off the plane. You can have some privacy for a few hours during the flight :D

With the other person twisting his/her neck in a not very natural way. :p

No, it won't. If you do a search for "business class" and poke around you will see countless threads dedicated to (often, complaints about) the old business class (which is installed on CX's 747 fleet). Probably the biggest complaint is the fact that it is very difficult to chat with a companion, regardless of which seats you choose.

Also its a real bummer when people start chatting when others are asleep as it really disturbs other passengers as they need to stand up to talk usually. People who choose upper deck do so for the restful and quite atmosphere up there

you could try getting 87/88 which is near the open jumpseat spaces so u can get up and stretch and converse without walking by people.

Thanks for all the advice.

It's only a 4 hour 40 min flight so I think we can manage to sit without deep & meaningful conversations for that length of time :D We're going on our 25th wedding anniversary trip so we can spend plenty of time at our resort being like newly-weds ;)

http://i.imgur.com/I0mqOl.jpg

taken from seat 88a. not the best photo, but somehow couldn't go into my server now.
i would prefer a&k, as you can see each other when you lean forward
and there are the emergency doors in front of row88.

http://i.imgur.com/7XNOvl.jpg

one more from 88a.
you can see the footrest of 88k.
the newspaper cart is at the open area next to the emergency door.