bsagator

I'm booked on this flight for March 1st, in D1 as my guc went through at booking. Flying back on AF in J.

zso

Delta JFK-BOM-JFK

Hello,
Does Premium Select cabin get separate lavs from Main Economy on this flight?
(They are not separate on flights to Asia Pacific out of DTW, but just hoping that is the case here).

Also, anyone know who is catering the Indian food on JFK-BOM?
(Delta flights to ICN/NRT/PVG/PEK out of DTW are catered by Korean restaurant Bi Bim Bab in South East Michigan).

Thank you.

flyerCO

No DL doesn't give PS separate lavs. They use same as coach.

zso

Yes.
Will need to see how the lavs hold up for 15-16 hours.

rucksack

US airlines must be very glad now about their decision to avoid Iranian airspace.

speede racer

The lavs on my flight were at the front of the Premium Select cabin, with the PS / Delta 1 curtain forward of the lavatories and of the galley area used to serve the PS cabin, and the cabin separated by a partition (but not curtain) from the main cabin. As a consequence use is primarily by Premium Select customers. At the end of a recent BOM - JFK flight the lavs were very serviceable.

flyerCO

The lavs at the front of PS by door 2 have been designated as D1 only on the flights I was on. They were actively telling PS passengers they had to use one in coach.

bsagator

Can someone explain why ppl are worried about the lavs being serviceable on the BOM flight? This will be my first ever trip to India...

flyerCO

There's zero reason. I think the real concern was how many lavs are assigned each cabin. (PS specifically)

If on the very off chance one did break, they would allow passengers to use lavs in another cabin if needed.

MNSWEEps

Me and my daughter flew in Delta One suite on Dec 24 from JFK - BOM and absolutely loved it. All services were 5 stars..

FlyBitcoin

Every flight I have taken on PS-equipped 777's and 359's, the PS passengers used the lav's at the front of the PS cabin.

There is not even a red/green lavatory indicator in the D1 cabin that reflects the availability of the lavs behind D1 (front of PS). I'm not going to walk back there from row 6 of D1 if I am not sure one is free. On NRT-ATL in the last row of D1, I saw PS people using those lavs and could not even see through the curtain at the back of D1 enough to see if the lavs right behind me were free.

Maybe when D1 spilled into the middle cabin on the pre-refurb 777's, those lavs were in D1. Now they are in the PS cabin.

sam007

what seats did you folks choose and what seats would you advise a family of 4 (two toddlers) to sit in

thx

speede racer

I didn't ask the original question but one possibility is the long flight and passenger / lav ratio. A second possibility is that, back in the day and from my experience as a very budget traveller (e.g., in the mid 80's on my first trip to India), squat toilets were the norm, and many travelers were on their first plane trip / travel outside the country. At the end of the flight from DEL to AMS the toilets were a total mess. This wasn't my experience at all on my most recent trip (we didn't encounter any squat toilets; we also weren't budget (or five star) travelers); the expansion of the Indian middle class and of domestic tourism means that compatriots on the plane (and fellow travelers on the ground) were fully versed in western toilet practice -- as a westerner I felt totally obnoxious, eating meat, drinking alcohol, and generally occupying too much space.

MNSWEEps

I think 4E and 4L.. center section next to each other. I would advice you get them and also get windows on either sides so all 4 are in same row.

eneq

Also, I'm pretty sure it's an FAA regulation that passengers have to use lavs in their respective cabins on US-bound flights. So, D1 pax would be forced to only use the lavs at the front of the cabin.