V-Flyer

One complaint about the upper class seat is that you can't see out of the window. Do you get extra lateral viewing if you have a bulkhead seat or are the bulkhead Walls slanted as shown on some seat plans.

On the Airbii all UC Suites are pretty much the same, the best are in the nose of a 747 where the fuselage is much more curved.

Thanks just wondered if you had a little more room at the front of each airbus cabin

In the nose of the 747 just bear in mind it can feel a bit claustrophoebic as the left and right hands suits almost touch each other.
Also there is an aircon unit directly above you which I find to be irritatingly noisy.

JCBR wrote:In the nose of the 747 just bear in mind it can feel a bit claustrophoebic as the left and right hands suits almost touch each other.
Also there is an aircon unit directly above you which I find to be irritatingly noisy.

No doubt in my mind that the air con on a 747 is loud! But if you go for 16 / 17 A or K there's enough space in the aisle not to be near your opposite passenger.

JCBR wrote:In the nose of the 747 just bear in mind it can feel a bit claustrophoebic as the left and right hands suits almost touch each other.
Also there is an aircon unit directly above you which I find to be irritatingly noisy.

i wouldn't agree with this at all. apart from the very front seats which do pretty much touch, there's more room in the front of a 747 than the airbus.

as far as windows are concerned, its pot luck as to whether you get a seat that lines up with a window or not. more often than not you get 2 windows that give partial views rather than one bang in the middle of your suite

Yes the walls of the suite located infront of the bulkhead are still curved like the other suite walls as that is where the TV and table are. What you do get at a bulkheadseat is an extra triangle of storage (inflight only !) where the triangular gap between the suite and the wall is filled in.

So no you don't get any extra lateral viewing and you still need to turn your head to be able to look out of the window.

THe a-zone on a 747 is far more roomy than the cabin on the airbs due to the space where the IFBT used to be. Don't forget though that there is no overhead storage for the first (two?) rows of the a-zone. It is quite amsing to see unknowing pax trying to open what they think is a locker !

true tony, last week i was in 14A & i just nicked 15A's overhead

hat wrote:i wouldn't agree with this at all. apart from the very front seats which do pretty much touch, there's more room in the front of a 747 than the airbus.

By 'nose' I did mean row 1.
The space 'A' space - is very good in that section of the 747. Most US airlines woudl bung another couple of seats in there for sure.

JCBR wrote:

hat wrote:i wouldn't agree with this at all. apart from the very front seats which do pretty much touch, there's more room in the front of a 747 than the airbus.

By 'nose' I did mean row 1.
The space 'A' space - is very good in that section of the 747. Most US airlines woudl bung another couple of seats in there for sure.

Row 1 on the 747 is in the upper deck and has a toilet in front of it as well as the cockpit

In the A zone the nose seats which are far more forward that the cockpit are 12A/K

There seams to be some confusion.

On the 747 LHR config rows 1-5 are in the bubble with 6 rows of econ behind. There are 2 UC seats per row in the bubble.

On the main desk are rows 12-25. Rows 12 - 19 are known as the A-zone and there are only 2 seats per row. This is, in the opinion of many, the best part to sit.

Rows 20-25 are in the cabin behind the galley and toilets. Apart from rows 24/25 there are 4 seats per row.

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yep you are quite correct. The 1st row is actually 12.
Back to my point that the 'first row' in the nose is a bit claustrpohpeobic !

This may seem a daft question, but if there are no locker bins above row 12 (we have this on our upcoming LAX flight) then what is considered the 'proper' etiquette? Am I going to cause ructions if I pop my hand luggage into the bin of row 14 /15 or 16?

Carolynn wrote:This may seem a daft question, but if there are no locker bins above row 12 (we have this on our upcoming LAX flight) then what is considered the 'proper' etiquette? Am I going to cause ructions if I pop my hand luggage into the bin of row 14 /15 or 16?

Despite what some people might think, the bins are not specific to the seat but are merely indicators of the seat number below. Otherwise there would be no 12A/K or 14A/K marked on the wall above them. Incidentally row 14 has no bin either. You merely find a bin with space in it and off you go. Somebody might try to object but if they're not filling the bin they can hardly do so. On one of my flights I moved a duvet on to a small case already in a bin and hefted up mine. Before I could draw breath the person in the seat below was on his feet and shifting the duvet over on to mine. )

When we flew in 12A/K we just hunted through the bins until we found space (we boarded after most of the rest of the cabin due to SSSS) and IIRC we put one of our bags in the wardrobe.