JMPH,

You don't say when you are flying, but seating is personal preference. What you prefer, others may not. Assuming you're traveing on a Boeing 757-200, the toilets aren't located at the rear of the aircraft. However, if you're travelling onboard a Boeing 737-800, they are. If you have access to the seat plan and can post how many seat rows there are, I can confirm it for you. Personally, I tend to avoid the rear of the aircraft where the toilets and galley area are as you tend to get people queing in the isle (if the toilets are located their) or you have all the clater from the crew preparing trollies behind, but that's just me. It's really personal preference though. You'll find extensive aircraft information on our what Aircraft? guide (link below).

EDIT: Your flights are operated by Boeing 737-800 so toilets are located at the rear of the aircraft.

Darren

Hi Darren,

I'm so sorry to be a nuisance and to be so pedantic, but can I just check please, when you say that the fixed armrests are in "Any of the exit (extra legroom) rows onboard the aircraft", then am I correct in assuming Row 32 does NOT have a fixed armrest because it is the row just before the exit (with it's back to the exit) and is not an extra legroom row (row 34 is right on the exit and is the extra legroom row, from looking at the seat plan).

I'm interested in row 32 as it is located before the exit and so reclining the seat would not affect the people in the extra legroom behind.

I'm also interested in row 46 for the same reason about reclining.

Do rows 32 or 46 have any disadvantages, i.e. no window, no recline, fixed armrests, etc?

Also, bit of a daft and embarrassing question, but do the food/drink/duty free trolleys in economy come from the very back of the plane on the ex-TOM 767 v3?

Thanks.

cagzy,

As it's not an exit row, then arm rests aren't fixed, or at least they weren't the last time I was onboard one of those aircraft. They are fixed in the exit rows as it's where the tray tables and IFE screen are stored. They are seat back in standard seats. As I mentioned before, seating is very much personal preference. I sometimes think we read too much in to what are the best or worst seats really, it really doesn't make that much different on the specific seat you're in as they all offer pretty much the same in their respective cabins. What I or others may prefer, you may not. The rows you mention are as good as any others although row 46 is only partial window from memory. Onboard service will normally be from front of the respective cabins working aft. Don't worry, you'll get served regardless of where you sit!

Darren

Thanks for your patience and help Darren!

I'm going to keep my fingers crossed for row 32 and fully recline without any guilt whilst gazing out of the window!!!

Thanks again,

Caroline.

as the time is fast approaching for the sheduled 787 dreamliner flight i was wondering if anybody yet knows how we will be contacted and reimburced for any change that might be required

i have personally booked premium seats a little puzzled if every body gets premium on the replacment planes, i understand that the 787 has more thus some people could be disapointed. also is it boeing or thompson that has to reimburce

any help apprecieted
thanks

shaper546,

As far as I'm aware, things are still up in the air so to speak with no further update on what aircraft is being used when as yet. You'll be contacted in due course with information about your flight and any changes. Depending on the aircraft used, there are more premium seats on the current aircraft (ex-FCA), but less economy so something will have to give. I suspect there'll be a reconfiguration to accommodate the needs. The information i'm getting, though is yet to be confirmed, is the 787-8 is unlikely to be in long haul service before the start of the winter season in November 2013. Any reimbursement due will be via Thomson / First Choice as this is who you have your holiday contract with, not Boeing. I'm sure Thomson will be seeking further compensation from Boeing for the latest delays though. You may find this post useful.

Darren

thanks Darren.
but do you know what time they will go up on Wednesday ? or will they just go up at 12:00am ? or the time my flight departs in PUJ ?

Many thanks,
kaneohighflyer

Kanohighflyer,

They'll be released once the flight is uploaded. I would keep trying from a couple of days prior to your release date as they are sometimes released early.

Darren

Dazbo HT Mod wrote:

shaper546,

As far as I'm aware, things are still up in the air so to speak with no further update on what aircraft is being used when as yet. You'll be contacted in due course with information about your flight and any changes. Depending on the aircraft used, there are more premium seats on the current aircraft (ex-FCA), but less economy so something will have to give. I suspect there'll be a reconfiguration to accommodate the needs. The information i'm getting, though is yet to be confirmed, is the 787-8 is unlikely to be in long haul service before the start of the winter season in November 2013.

Darren

Darren comments like that will cause panic & mass hysteria once word gets out ...... Lol you know no one wants to fly on anything else but the dreamliner.

Grahamy wrote:

you know no one wants to fly on anything else but the dreamliner

I'm not so sure about that at the moment after a couple had smoke coming out of their bellies. I know a few who wouldn't step foot on one until they've been proven reliable. Wouldn't stop me however! Still, nothing anyone can do apart from wait for them to be delivered. As long as something safe gets you to your destination and back, it's the bit between the flights that's most important

Darren

That last comment was meant to be sarcastic
Hopefully all will be resolved soon . We are flying NCL-SFB-NCL In September & due to fly on the old trusty 767 but i would still fly on the 787 tomorrow.

Daz, Hi, please could you confirm something for me. We are flying on 21-06-13 on TOM436/437
we booked the friday morning flights as I had information that these were on the 767-304 but am now finding more information showing that its more likely to be ona 752, could you confirm for me?

Cheers

:-)

This re Dreamliner on BBC news:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21667233#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Thomson have just announced that "Customers travelling in May and June will be transferred to Thomson Airways' 767 aircraft."

According to BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21667233

Z.J.C

Somehow I think it's going to be getting VERY busy in here.

Thomson appear to be answering questions on the 787 blog.

They are reassuring passengers that economy club will still benefit from 33" leg room which is a positive if they can maintain this promise.

Z.J.C

They want to hope the dreamliner flights were not full, because the have nothing else large enough to accommodate a full load .

Exactly what I thought, I have noticed that no flights on Thomson website are showing as Dreamliner flights now.

I wonder if it will be a case of Thomson ringing around asking people if they are willing to transfer to another date.

Z.J.C

Or they could just have taken some seats off sale, when it became apparent that the Dreamliner problems weren't going to be a quick fix.
I have already seen on different forums where people have chosen to amend their bookings to different departure airports, and destinations, so it may not be a problem, even if they did fully book the seats.