self upgrader
 

Greetings form KLIA.

Just thought I would share, my dismay with a passenger on CX767 this morning, who decided to self upgrade himself from Y to W with no intervention from the cabin crew when they came around to do service.
This guy was sitting in our seats when we arrived, asked him to move, then 10 minutes later another passenger kicked him out of their seat then 2 mins after take off he made a bee line to PE.

Never have considered this myself but has it seems tolerated maybe on my return Y trip in a few weeks I will self upgrade too! :P Just kidding.

wow! crazy

You should have alerted the cabin crew.

They would not have been able to know who should be sat where in Y/Y+ class.

Y to PE will be hard to police if busy cabin.
PE to J or J to F will be easier.

good to know...guess i'll have to self upgrade myself in the future!! j/p

when there are women repeatedly get pass security onto plane and to the destination with no issues, I guess self upgrader isn't that bad..

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/02/10...-minnesota-to/

The problem is this is becoming an annoying pattern it seems. Y fliers are noticing PEY is regularly empty, and will help themselves. As I've said before I had to kick a person off my seat after meal service. It's ridiculous. There's no way the crew doesn't know this but just decided to ignore it. I've even seem one person jumped to J class and slept there most of the flight and only caught after J crew was giving meal service and asked him to leave. Ridiculous.

You should write to Cathay ask them to follow-up on this issue.

A few months ago, I flew ADL - HKG in J and a PY pax helped himself into the nearly empty mini-J cabin. Little did he know that one of the Pursers had seen him and a few minutes later the Inflight Service Manager shouted: "Sir, this is Business Class. Please go back to your ticketed seat, NOW!" The guy then had the nerve to try to steal a pillow but the ISM (who by this point was already very annoyed) told him "That pillow is for our Business Class only." :D

I admit, I enjoyed every second of it. Business Class is no place for PY and Y pax. :D

Doesn't help when they leave the curtains opened either.

So glad I don't usually sit at the back of the cabin in PEY or J.

Should have alerted the cabin crew. Many folks do not know that PY is a separate class of service especially since they don't close the curtains.

If OP was dismayed, he should have done something. If he chose to let it go onboard, he should let it go now.

China does it right: 3 pax with only Economy tickets going on the empty Premium Economy to Shanghai, FA reported to local police, they came on-board and arrested the 3 of them. CX take note? (It's a local Chinese airline)

Seriously you agree that people jumping into empty seats on a plane is an arrestable offence..... Wow

If it's an empty seat in a class higher than what you paid for, then why not? If you've spent any time in the region, you'll no doubt appreciate that a zero tolerance policy is the only thing that will work for nationals of certain markets.

Because I think using police resources to deal with people chancing their arm trying to get into a better seat, probably out of ignorance, is uncalled for, and way over the top. The crew should deal firmly with it.