April 21, 2009 at 4:35 am
Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific says it is investigating claims a couple travelling first class from Toronto used the crew rest area in a Boeing 777 to join the “mile-high club”.
A purser allegedly invited the couple to use the off-limits area to have sex when he saw them getting intimate in their seats that fold out into beds in the new-style first class cabin.
The passenger, an American doctor in his 20s, posted pictures on a blog of himself lying on the bunk – used by pilots to rest between shifts on long-haul flights – as evidence of what he calls his “amorous adventure.”
The unnamed passenger, who has posted several previous blogs describing his front-end flying experiences, says the visit to the rest area on board the Cathay 777-300ER was made possible by a purser called Alvin who he knew from previous flights.
Three other people were in he first class compartment on the flight and the passenger wrote on his blog: “On these long, long flights there isn’t really anything to do after the meal service so my gf (girlfriend) and I were cuddling and watching movies.
“With the magnificent large bed one thing led to another and soon my friend Alvin was at our side saying would you like the privacy of our crew rest upstairs? It is currently unoccupied…”
Two photographs which appear to have been taken by his girlfriend show the suited blogger – with his face deliberately obscured – sitting in the seat in front of the crew bunk and lying down on one of the bunks, which has ruffled sheets and blankets.
“I felt like a celebrity,” he wrote on his blog which also features pictures of the First Class bathroom, the pilots in the cockpit and every plate of food served up the flight which costs more than 4000 pounds sterling for a one-way ticket.
Cathay Pacific said it was examining the blog, posted earlier this month, to see if the purser broke the rules by allowing passengers into the crew rest area.
An airline spokeswoman said, “We are looking into the case. It is a company’s policy that the cabin crew and cockpit crew rest bunks can only be used by operating crew and not for any staff or passengers.”
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald
By: steve rowell - 26th April 2009 at 00:06
Do you have to be exactly one mile up and is there an independent adjudicator standing by with a clipboard and a stopwatch ? :rolleyes:
Hope he’s not a premature adjudicator!!!
By: Ren Frew - 25th April 2009 at 00:06
hmm, im sure the official rule is that you have to be in control of the aircraft to join the mile high club anyway
Do you have to be exactly one mile up and is there an independent adjudicator standing by with a clipboard and a stopwatch ? :rolleyes:
By: steve rowell - 24th April 2009 at 23:47
i should have expected that one :D:D
I think you and I are the only ones with a sense of humour
By: Scott Marlee - 23rd April 2009 at 01:35
i should have expected that one :D:D
By: steve rowell - 23rd April 2009 at 00:18
hmm, im sure the official rule is that you have to be in control of the aircraft to join the mile high club anyway
Well she probably had hold of the joy stick in the cockpit!!!
By: AlphaChi1989 - 22nd April 2009 at 18:44
And…
Great for them…and after you join the Mile High Club, you MUST join
the Half Mile Club, Two Mile Club, Three Mile Club, Four Mile Club,
Five Mile Club, Outer Space Club! 🙂
By: Jet 22 - 22nd April 2009 at 18:24
I read that trip report, and it would seem that this guy thinks he is IT.
According to him he also smuggled a Rabbit from TPE (the country) because it was going to be killed, skinned/boned and cooked (taste’s like chicken) to the United States of America. Knowing how strict America are when coming to their country i wonder how much of this was true :rolleyes:
By: Scott Marlee - 22nd April 2009 at 18:13
hmm, im sure the official rule is that you have to be in control of the aircraft to join the mile high club anyway
By: skycruiser - 22nd April 2009 at 12:35
All tabloid rubbish!!
The crew rest is always occupied on a flight to/from Toronto. He would have been allowed to visit the rest area ONLY after landing. Basically, he wrote a load of lies.
You can see in the pictures he was wearing his suit jacket, not something you would be doing mid flight.
The gutter press really does report some utter rubbish.
regards.