Mon Mar 13, 2017 11:43 am
I flew from JFK to MNL with my wife and infant daughter in January. The flight from JFK to HKG was on a 77W, as expected. We were seated in Row 40, which was behind the wing. So then we get on a 773 to fly from HKG to MNL, and are seated in Row 39. After we got seated, I looked out the window expecting to see the wing. I cannot see it anywhere. Finally I see it about 10 rows behind me. I am trying to figure out what is going on; does the 77W have some super first class that takes up half the fuselage in front? Then I recall that the other 77Ws {EVA} that I have been on had similar seat numbers to the CX one I had just left. I finally looked at the seat numbers for the seats in front of mine {row 39 is a bulkhead row in both the 77W and the 773} and the row in front of me is like row 20. So the mystery is solved; they have omitted something like 18 rows. My question is why?
The problem with making things foolproof is that fools are so doggone ingenious...Dan Keebler