BritishB747 From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2010, 54 posts, RR: 0 Posted (1 year 4 months 3 weeks 3 days 18 hours ago) and read 4194 times:
Hello,
I noticed on the Virgin Atlantic website that on some B747s they have economy class seating on the upper deck. I was just wondering if there are specific routes that these aircraft fly on and if they are published anywhere? Also do these seats usually get booked up quite quickly? I was planning on flying to New York in the summer and if I could get an economy seat on the upper deck it would be something I would want to book.
tonyban From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 314 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (1 year 4 months 3 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago) and read 3308 times:
Don't do it ! I flew SFO-LHR on the upper deck on Christmas eve and found the leg room to be extremely cramped.
The only empty seats were the ones at the front and cabin crew said they were off limits unless you paid them $150 first.
jwhite9185 From United Kingdom, joined May 2007, 748 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (1 year 4 months 3 weeks 3 days ago) and read 3025 times:
You can normally reserve VS seats from the moment you book you're flight. As said, its the LHR flights that have this configuration. LGW is all premium economy on the upper deck.
At the moment the 747's are usually found on the JFK (VS045/46), JNB and SFO routes. The rest are A340's. The BGI flights seem to have reverted back to the LGW fleet in the last couple of weeks.
BritishB747 From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2010, 54 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (1 year 4 months 3 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 2997 times:
Thank you for the responses.
I thought that they may be on routes out of LHR to the likes of JFK as I saw that they had a lot of Upper Class seats and thoughts where else could they send them and still fill all the upper class seats. I may consider doing this for the novelty of being on the upper deck of the B747. However is the legroom on the upper deck economy seats any different from the lower deck. I would have thought that it would all have to be uniform across all economy sections?
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