Hi Darren,

Is there any info on the IFE for November yet? Just interested as I fly on the 9th of nov.

Thanks :-)

noooooobs,

IFE isn't released for the next 2 months until a day or two before the end of the month. I'll update the information as soon as I get it.

Darren

Dazbo HT Mod wrote:

noooooobs,

IFE isn't released for the next 2 months until a day or two before the end of the month. I'll update the information as soon as I get it.

Darren

Oh ok no probs, hope you had a good holiday? Where did you go if you don't mind me asking?

James

noooooobs wrote:

hope you had a good holiday? Where did you go if you don't mind me asking?

Great thanks. I went to Hudhurran Fushi Island in the Maldives.

Darren

Dazbo HT Mod wrote:

noooooobs wrote:

hope you had a good holiday? Where did you go if you don't mind me asking?

Great thanks. I went to Hudhurran Fushi Island in the Maldives.

Darren

Excellent, we are looking to go there late next year or early 2014 as we've just booked Mexico for may :-). Will you be writing a trip report? I quite enjoy reading your reports

noooooobs,

I wasn't going to as we flew scheduled (Etihad) rather than charter. It's my second trip to the Maldives and all I can say is, it's an amazing place on many levels. To keep us on topic (!), it's just a pity Thomson have dropped Male from Manchester so we don't have any non-stop flights now atlhough it does give the oportunity to try some of the big middle east carriers.

Darren

Hello,

Im booked on the dreamliner to Cancun in July next year.

Just wondering if Thomson have released any seating plans yet? Looking at other carriers it looks like a 3-3-3 seating and I was hoping for a 2 seat somewhere?

Thanks

Z.J.C

z.j.c wrote:

Hello,

Im booked on the dreamliner to Cancun in July next year.

Just wondering if Thomson have released any seating plans yet? Looking at other carriers it looks like a 3-3-3 seating and I was hoping for a 2 seat somewhere?

Thanks

Z.J.C

If you want 2 seats then book premium as its 2-3-2. Economy will be 3-3-3

James

Thought they may be a slim chance of a 2-3-2 at the end of the 787 cabin as is the case with some long haul aircraft but it looks like the 787 will not have this.

Premium is £320 thats 4 flights to Alicante and back! I cannot justify that looks like Ill be annoying someone to move for 11 hours when I want to go for a walk.

z.j.c wrote:

Thought they may be a slim chance of a 2-3-2 at the end of the 787 cabin as is the case with some long haul aircraft but it looks like the 787 will not have this.

Premium is £320 thats 4 flights to Alicante and back! I cannot justify that looks like Ill be annoying someone to move for 11 hours when I want to go for a walk.

It may have this they haven't actually released full details of the cabin layout as of yet. I'm in the same boat (or plane) excuse the pun! me and the wife are booked to go to Mexico in may and we will just have to sit next to a stranger. I will just go on ASAP and make sure we have two seats closest the window. Hopefully the 3rd seat will be vacant but I'm sure we won't get lucky.

James

noooooobs wrote:

It may have this they haven't actually released full details of the cabin layout as of yet.

I've had a copy of the seat plan for several months, it was finalised quite a while ago.

z.j.c wrote:

Just wondering if Thomson have released any seating plans yet? Looking at other carriers it looks like a 3-3-3 seating and I was hoping for a 2 seat somewhere?

Details of the seating is on our What Aircraft? guide (linlk below). The last full row in economy is 2-3-2. All other economy rows are 3-3-3.

Darren

Dazbo HT Mod wrote:

noooooobs wrote:

It may have this they haven't actually released full details of the cabin layout as of yet.

I've had a copy of the seat plan for several months, it was finalised quite a while ago.

z.j.c wrote:

Just wondering if Thomson have released any seating plans yet? Looking at other carriers it looks like a 3-3-3 seating and I was hoping for a 2 seat somewhere?

Details of the seating is on our What Aircraft? guide (linlk below). The last full row in economy is 2-3-2. All other economy rows are 3-3-3.

Darren

Sorry didn't know that

Thanks Darren,

Ill have to get on the select your seat system early and bag those seats!.

Thanks,

Z.J.C

Hiya, flying MAN-ACE-MAN (TOM2468/9) week on thursday. dep 11.05/ arr 15.20. Any chance of finding out what aircraft?

Thank you.

onetruenutta,

MAN-ACE-MAN (TOM2468/9) are operated by Boeing 767-300/ER (short haul).

Darren

OK,I confess I’m another person looking forward to flying in the much- hyped 787 Thomson Dreamliner.

However – I like numbers, and was intrigued to note the planned Thomson seating plan of 3-3-3 in economy.
If one does the math, taking account of the different cabin interior widths, I make it the the 787 will in fact allow only 0.61m per passenger. That compares with the 2-3-2 economy arrangement in Thomson First Choice 767 planes which provides 0.674m per passenger.
Both of those figures are based on simple division of published interior cabin widths, and so include the aisles.

My point is that there appears to be around 10% LESS width per passenger with the new 787 than on the existing FC 767 planes.
So either the seats are narrower, or the aisles are narrower!
Is my math wrong – or is there a bit of an advertising game going on here about the spaceousness claims ??

ukbill wrote:

Is my math wrong – or is there a bit of an advertising game going on here about the spaceousness claims ??

From everything I've read about the in-service 787-8's, some of the claims seem to be a little exaggerated other than the fuel figures that are roughly as expected. The lower cabin altitude and higher humidity doesn't seem to be noticable on long haul flights, although that's down to personal feeling so remains to be seen. Seat widths shouldn't be any different than they are currently. I've not seen the actual seat width figures, but I was told they are the same as they are currently.

Darren

Thanks for the quick response Darren.
However, my point remains - if my math is right, and the aisle widths stay the same, then the seats have GOT to be narrower than those in the Thomson FC 767 planes,
Elsewise - they must have reduced the aisle width significantly to keep the seat the same. But I don't see they could do that without problems of access and trolley widths.
I still get the feeling that we are being a little misled by the advertising folk.

Just done a little more calculation on the above.
EITHER – they are REDUCING the available width per passenger by 1.5 inches – which would mean cutting the armrests to virtually zero or a hip-bone crushing reduction to 15.5 inches width from 17.
OR – they are reducing the aisles to only 11 inches – which I reckon would be impossible.
So my guess is that they have squeezed ALL these numbers downwards a bit and hope that folk won’t notice since the cabin total width goes up by 16% creating an IMPRESSION, but only an impression, of more space. Advertisers don’t mention they are squeezing in 29% more passengers width-wise!

My math suggests we maybe get narrower aisles, narrower armrests, and narrower seats on the Dreamliner compared to the previous Thomson First Choice 767 planes.
That has to be a step backwards in comfort from those excellent vehicles.
Then again, maybe my math is completely wrong, and the advertising gurus are right...
Anyone else try to do the sums?