barney490 wrote:Hmmmm, interesting, I say that because I found quite easily from a google search that Miss Behavin is being used solely on this route until 01/09/2015, which it seems she is, but cannot find anything about which aircraft after that. Our ticket states 747, hence my question as we return on 06/09/20185. When we flew out in April of this year it was on Barbarella, a few weeks after the undercarriage incident.
I don't know where that information came from but I really would not rely on it as so many factors come into play such as aircraft going tech, passenger loads, charter requests and other things to which we are not privy.
Some many years ago on V-Flyer, long before the clamp down of such information because of security reasons, there was a V-Flyer who was able to release such information as to which aircraft was flying which route. All of us waited with eagerness to the exact two weeks before our flight which was when the news would be released. That year I was flying to SFO and I was told my plane would be G-VHOT. Fine by me - nice to know.
On the day of the flight, we checked in via the Flight Connections place (it was before the days of OLCI) and our seat assignments were changed and we were told it was because Aer John's seat was inoperable. Fair enough. In the CH with my trusty binoculars (*nerd alert*) I could see G-VHOT in the distance but at no stage did she move to a gate.
On board, I found a Japanese lady in my seat as she realised that in Zone B, it was easier for K/K to communicate than A/K
In the meantime Aer John, by means of poking and prodding, discovered that the seat was in fact, operable so we resumed our original seats and left Tokyo Rose in mine. We later found out that we were on G-VBIG.
The moral of the story and the one we have stressed here from time to time in answer to "What aircraft will I be on" is the one you will see at the gate when you go to board.
