In several forums, people keep complaining about the old raffles class seats on board of SQ 744s; while I have found the seat to be quite comfortable (haven't travelled on the new J cabin yet, but I can hardly imagine that a seat that wide is really comfortable), there are a few remarks I would like to share.
On one flight, the overhead lights did not work (SPO) (not sure whether the bulb was burnt out or something was wrong with the switch, other passengers were using their overhead lights) and the quite stiff reading light stem was constantly pushing into my back when I leaned over to look out of the window (I've had the aisle seat). On the return flight (SPP), the lights worked perfectly (but on that SPO plane, several other things like the lavatory signs were not working as well).
The next issue I've had was with the seat controller - trying and trying again, I could not make the seat do what I commanded it to (the movements developed a life on their own when I pushed some of the buttons, absolutely not doing what I expected). The only function that seemed to work reliably was the blue-lit reclining button. And the noise the seats make when being moved made me think "why are they extending the flaps in the middle of the flight?". Seems that you need to have a university degree to properly operate the seats (or that I'm just too dumb to do it).
And one more thing: Are the armrests really meant to not completely slide down so there is no step between the lie-flat area and the armrests? I found it more comfortable to slide the armrest up again after the seat had fully reclined (which did not work for the middle armrest, there's only a switch of the "for crew use only" type on the middle armrest that had no effect at all).
On one flight, the overhead lights did not work (SPO) (not sure whether the bulb was burnt out or something was wrong with the switch, other passengers were using their overhead lights) and the quite stiff reading light stem was constantly pushing into my back when I leaned over to look out of the window (I've had the aisle seat). On the return flight (SPP), the lights worked perfectly (but on that SPO plane, several other things like the lavatory signs were not working as well).
The next issue I've had was with the seat controller - trying and trying again, I could not make the seat do what I commanded it to (the movements developed a life on their own when I pushed some of the buttons, absolutely not doing what I expected). The only function that seemed to work reliably was the blue-lit reclining button. And the noise the seats make when being moved made me think "why are they extending the flaps in the middle of the flight?". Seems that you need to have a university degree to properly operate the seats (or that I'm just too dumb to do it).
And one more thing: Are the armrests really meant to not completely slide down so there is no step between the lie-flat area and the armrests? I found it more comfortable to slide the armrest up again after the seat had fully reclined (which did not work for the middle armrest, there's only a switch of the "for crew use only" type on the middle armrest that had no effect at all).
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