bkw

Had 73A today for NRT-DTW. I've sat all over in WBC on the 744 and it's my favorite. You are, however, the last of the WBC customers to get off the plane.

aSiAnRiCk

OK .. one more question

Can anyone confirm that the FA's always held the Y pax to make sure all upperdeck WBC pax disembarked first? Or not always?

jjvan

Every flight I have worked I try my best. But you would be shocked how many people just try to push a FA over to get out. I feel like riot police trying to keep them back, but a few usually barge through.

avidflyer

They hold Y but not WBC downstairs.

NW-A332

Doesn't it depend if they have both doors open? Even though the stairs come down by the second door, the FAs have ushered me to the first door when all of the coach passengers are using the second one. Personally, I'm never in a hurry to leave the upper deck, so they can take all the time in the world.

avidflyer

I think what happens is that before door 2L is opened Y streams up to door 1L. The other thing that happens (just 2 weeks ago coming back from NRT) is that the WBC folks upstairs seem to "think" anyone queued up at the door must be from coach. I was number 1 at the door (thanks to my coveted 10B seat) and I had an obnoxious guy from upstairs make a comment about Biz getting off first. The FA who was talking to me most of the flight scolded him in front of the entire cabin and said "Mr AvidFlyer IS in Business and is a very good repeat customer. Please wait your turn and play nice. Sweeeeeeeeeet

Boofer

I'm in 77K (for now) on AMS-DTW in a couple of weeks. I haven't seen too much discussion of 77K except someone's observation that the FA seat is in front of you. I prefer window. Both 73A and 77A are taken. Is 77K the next best choice upstairs? Does that FA seat really bug you?

mjcewl1284

77-B

for obvious reasons...

(I thought I've posted on this in the past, I guess not)

MW147

I have been flying to Asia for 25 years, mostly on NW. More recently I have not always been on NW (mainly having to do with the lack of mileage upgrade seats, which never seem to be available to Asia).
I always liked the upper deck better. However, last November the FAs did not let me bring my roll aboard upstairs. Actually on 1 leg I did bring it up and stored it in the closet myself. The FA came and found me and in a not so polite way told me to bring it downstairs. Something to do with the weight of the seats with the new AVOD systems. Sounded like BS to me, but what could I do? I brought it downstairs. A real pain getting it after the flight.

Anyway, my next trip on NW is this November. I am no longer an elite of any kind, so I cannot get 73 (always had been my favorite), 77, or 10, as they are reserved for elites.

We took 4E and 4F, which are the middle seats by themselves in the front cabin downstairs. Anyone have any experience with these seats?

henanbuzz2000

peace and quiet, nice side table...........plenty of room........cant beat it upstairs.....esp on that long flight

MikeMpls

The carpet's looking a bit ratty with some seams separating & corner(s) peeling up but otherwise 77A/B are unbeatable. I was a bit taken aback the worn, Spartan appearance of the upper deck Tuesday on AMS-DTW, but the seats (77A/B) were unbeatable and the service from the crew was superb.

MikeMpls

77A/B are better. The crew are only in their seats for takeoff and landing. There appears to be plenty of legroom for the right-side seats the rest of the time.

mat123

Here's a pic of the legroom in 10A/B from AMS-DTW:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31620476@N08/3053706763/


BTW: My seat's AVOD was "out of order". I didn't mind since I prefer to watch downloaded TV/Movies on my Blackberry. The purser gave us two certificates for 25k miles for the inconvenience; one for me and one for my uncle since we were sharing one seat's AVOD for a little while. Since my uncle is not a frequent flyer and I used my miles to pay for his seat, he gave his to me... So I'm 50,000 miles richer!

avidflyer

No pics please...I like the fact that everyone runs up the stairs and leaves my favorite seats open

mjcewl1284

This is done routinely. Y people have just got to suck it up. I know I have in the past when I was sitting in row 24. On one such particular flight the FA holding Y back even complimented me for not barging ahead or putting up a fuss because I knew that was "protocol."