The Business Class cabin, with 2013 J seats laid out 1-2-1...

Premium Economy, laid out 2-4-2...

And the Economy cabin, laid out 3-3-3.

Unlike my recent A350 Y flights, where I sat in the rear of the aircraft, today I thought I would change it up and sit in the first Y cabin.

This really paid off, as there were a few empty seats onboard, and one of the empty seats was next to mine!

That's when it dawned on me that for flights that had some empty seats, it might actually be better to sit in the first Y cabin than at the back, because in the first section of the Y cabin, seats could only be pre-selected free-of-charge if you were a PPS or Gold member. This seemed to mean that for flights which were busy, but not completely full, there would actually be more chance of an empty seat up front than in the rear, where seat selection was free of charge. In any case, I had a great seat in the forward cabin, which was actually less full than the 2nd Y cabin.
Today's flight was an 11.30am departure out of San Francisco, with a scheduled arrival time of 7pm in Singapore the next day. We took off on schedule, with today's flight time a fairly long 15 1/2 hours...

Full post-take-off drink service, starting with Premium Economy...

I asked for a G&T with a lemon slice...

While waiting for lunch service, I began watching the movie "Tolkien", about the early years of JRR Tolkien, the friendships of his youth...

...and his experiences in WW1...

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