For those that have been asking about the various seats onboard the First Choice Boeing 767-300/ER's, these are photos of the various seats for reference (please excuse the state of the cabin, they were taken after our flight back from Puerto Plata this morning):


Standard economy seating (I kept my seat clean!)


Bulkhead row 14 - pairs (extra legroom)


Bulkhead row 11 - centre (extra legroom)


Over-wing exit row 20 - extra legroom (most spacious if you can get them)


Premium Economy


Front row Premium Economy

Darren

shazajo,

NCL-LPA-NCL (TOM1142/3) are operated by Boeing 757-200.

Darren

Darren,thought you had been to Cayo Levantado? Isn't it closer to Punta Cana airport??

brewerdave,

I have, along with baz657 but we flew in to Puerto Plata as it was only available from their. I don't think there's much in it really. It's a 3.5 hour drive between Samana and Puerto Plata, and that's with a minibus driver with lead boots and overtakes anything! It's a fair amount of travelling but worth it. It was an extra 30 minutes on the way back to Puerto Plata when the trailer with our luggage lost a wheel, but that's a story for another thread!

Darren

Welcome home Darren, and thanks for posting the photos.

Having booked Premium Economy for our flight to Mexico in August, I was thinking about requesting the front row, but after seeing the photo, think I have changed my mind!

Regards,
Pat

Darren

Nice to see the old seat colour scheme before they change them all to navy

befreetoday
when does that happen???
dazbo.
what were the movies and when are they due to change??
hope you had a great time fella!!

Buzzer14

All seats are being recovered in blue navy dbla and oobk have already been done

buzzer14,

It's only a colour change, nothing to worry about. Full current IFE details are linked on our What Aircraft? guide. I update them as they're released every 2 months.

Darren

Hi! Can anyone tell me which aircraft is operating TOM108 tomorrow from MAN to Barbados? Also, any ideas where the aircraft is coming in from?

Thanks in advance

glg22,

MAN-BGI-MAN (TOM108/9) are operated by a former First Choice Boeing 767-300/ER, likely to be G-DBLA. The aircraft should be operating the Cancun flight (TOM144/5) at the moment and is scheduled to land at 0720 in the morning for your flight.

Darren

Excellent, many thanks Darren!

Hi Dazbo,

Hope you had a good holiday - was just wondering whether you'd had a chance to look up the a/c type for my flights TOM 4668/4669 LGW-FUE-LGW on June 9th/16th respectively yet... have I managed to get the A321s yet again...?!

Thanks,

GK

GoldenKnight,

We had a great time thanks. It's looking like an A321-200 again. There's a single A321-200 based at LGW this summer and it's doing FUE. You'll be pleased to know all the Airbus are leaving the fleet so you'll be Boeing if you go after November!

All but one of the A320's leave the fleet in April (the other at the end of the summer season, MAN based) with the A321's leaving in November (1x LGW based, 1 MAN based). The remaining 737-300's leave in May.

Darren

For those interested, the expected Summer 2012 aircraft bases are as follows:

Belfast - 1x Boeing 737-800
Birmingham - 1x Boeing 737-800, 4x Boeing 757-200, 1x Boeing 767-300/ER (selected days)
Bournemouth - 1x Boeing 737-800
Bristol - 2x Boeing 757-200, 1x Boeing 767-300 (selected days)
Cardiff - 1x Boeing 737-800, 1x Boeing 757-200
Doncaster - 2x Boeing 737-800
Dublin - 1x Boeing 737-800
East Midlands - 1x Boeing 757-200, 2x Boeing 737-800, 1x Boeing 767-300 (selected days)
Edinburgh - 1x Boeing 757-200
Exeter - 1x Boeing 737-800
Gatwick - 6 x Boeing 737-800, 3 x Boeing 757-200, 1 x Airbus A321, 4 x Boeing 767-300/ER
Glasgow - 2x Boeing 757-200, 1x Boeing 767-300/ER (selected days)
Luton - 1x Boeing 757-200, 2x Boeing 737-800
Manchester - 4x Boeing 737-800, 1x Airbus A320, 1x Airbus A321, 2x Boeing 757-200, 5x Boeing 767-300/ER
Newcastle: 1x Boeing 737-800, 2x Boeing 757-200, 1x Boeing 767-300/ER (selected days)
Stansted - 2x Boeing 737-800

Darren

Off to Cuba again soon - but I'm afraid another couple of questions about the flight.
It's TOM172/173 Manchester-Varadero in May.
I've booked my flight seats using the Thomson website
- and that showed the plane as a Thomson 767 - not a ex-First Choice one.
(The seating was 2-4-2 on the plan).
However I see that the last couple of weeks it appears the flight is now being operated by ex-FC planes
(G-OOBM and G-OOBK).
My questions -
Has this been changed now back to ex-FC on schedules?
Since I've booked the "H" seat - what happens to me if it has really switched to 2-3-2?
Do I lose my window seat? (or have to sit on the wing?)

Ukbill

You should go with what the Thomson seat plan shows you. There are a few aircraft changes coming up to allow for maintenance etc so its likely your flight will have been ear marked for an ex-TOM for some time anyway

To keep everybody informed on our previous inability to select our seats for our forthcoming flight to Mexico on 17th May returning on 31st May.

Guess what... still not able to book the seats. They apparently are having problems with uploading the seating plan for our flights.

Still not feeling confident about this at all.

Mark

Thanks Dazbo

I dont suppose anyone knows the answer to this but I have just tried to pick our own seats and it states we have already chosen your seats and if these are not suitable you can pick different ones, does this mean these will be the seats we will be allocated after checking in? as it says 39E/39F, im just puzzled