EK 353 vs EK355 which route has a higher chance of first class?

Pleasantly surprised at the new F suite on the GRU-DXB route Oct 19!
Super lucky to have experienced it as I don't recall seeing it in this route before.
Such a treat on the long 14+ hour flight.

The suite is indeed impressive, lots of space and privacy.
But ... not sure if it was an issue with my seat, by it wasn't 100% flat. Towards the feet, it had a weird angle.
Didn't bother me much, but was something I noticed a few times during the flight.
Load was 3/6; could have asked to move, but got lazy and cozy in my own cocoon!

The A380 goes back to the route in November, so don't expect the surprise to happen again.

I noticed the same thing about the seat. Seemed angled to me and not fully flat.

Yes since day one this has been an issue - doesn't matter which seat you choose. I simply don't understand why EK thought this was a good idea. On some of the (much) older 380 J seats this is an issue too.

I noticed it myself too on my last flight. Maybe it was meant to help with the zero gravity feeling ;)

Oh dear, we have a few members with spirit levels on this board, so they'll probably complain about that.... ;)

I just realized that I'm booked on EK46 F on Nov 5th but the winter flight plan is changing from B777 to A380 in November... :mad:

I'm looking at options to change the award flight FRA-DXB (based in FRA) to still experience the B777 F.
Anybody have any advice which route would be safe with the winter flight plan?

I would go for GVA - smaller city, smaller airport (probably even can't handle the A380) yet likely to have a relatively high demand for full fare F seats.

You mean new F?
BRU was the ‘launch route’ when they introduced it. But ‘safe’ does not exist in this context.

Any UK routes being served in December?

Unfortunately GVA's flight on November 5th is already full in F.

The only other flights with the new F departing Europe on November 5th are: ZRH (EK 86) and BRU (EK 182 & EK 184). Hopefully that helps.

Nothing scheduled at the moment. Though it's very possible EK might add a few extra LHR flights like they did in October.

Thanks a lot for the very helpful advice!
I wanted to avoid red-eye flights and could not find F availability on EK184.
Thus, decided to stick with the old F on the 380 out of FRA. There will be some other opportunity for me to fly the Gamechanger F. ;)

EK219 DXB-MCO 12 Nov just changed from 2 class to 3 class. Any way to check if this is new F now? Can't get a seat map on a dummy booking. I highly suspect not as it has only gone there once (but miles upgrades are available!)

According to EF, it is old F.

Same as the previous reply, it is old F according to Amadeus.

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