VS045/046 - B747?

Hi,

For the last couple of months, the seat map for my booking coming back on VS046 (Sunday 13th Nov) has been showing as a B747. Looking at the database, this route has been exclusively A340 for the last 3 months, so is this a seat map error, or are the 747s moving on to this route nearer Christmas for weekend break people.
Any ideas if this is the case, or is a couple of weeks notice still a bit of a hit and miss guess as to what will be flying? Anyone have access to the load on this flight and if a 747 is more likely to be used for capacity? I would like to try out an A346 if possible, but do still love the jumbos...

Cheers,

Scott

[mitchja]

Scott

Your VS46 flight is still showing as a B744 with:

J7 D7 Z7 W7 S7 K0 Y7 B7 L7 M7 Q7 X7 N7

So it's wide open at the moment, however there are not many empty seats left in Y. W is approx 50% full and J is showing as been <50%. I guess the large Y loads warrent a B744 for your flight.

On that day the VS10 from JFK and the VS18 from EWR are the only New York flights showing as been on an A343 (with UCS I would hope [|)] as there are no A346's in NYC that day)

Regards

Thanks very much for looking into that for me...more details will hopefully following in my TR post trip.

Scott

Originally posted by mitchja
On that day the VS10 from JFK and the VS18 from EWR are the only New York flights showing as been on an A343 (with UCS I would hope [|)] as there are no A346's in NYC that day)

I'm flying the VS17 to EWR on 4th November, and the VS website is showing this as a non-suite A343 (return on 7th November is a suite A343).

Strange for a suite route to have an non-suite A343 in the schedules (eg not a tech change)

This isn't gospel, but most ny flights shown as A343s will end up being A346s.

Cheers,
VS045

Originally posted by VS045
This isn't gospel, but most ny flights shown as A343s will end up being A346s.

Cheers,
VS045

I was thinking the same, but just checking, the inbound has now changed from a suite A343 to a non-suite A343 - and this is for flights just 2 weeks away...

(not that I am particulaly bothered, as I am in Y class [:#], however at least if I was on a Suite plane it would guarantee odyssey IFE [^], of course, an A346 would be the best)

Richard, if you could find out what metal is operating the flight out that does your inbound you could check against that, although I'd still wait to see as it is pretty likely it will become a -600.

Cheers,
VS045