Posted on 03/21/2016 11:55:14 AM PDT by C19fan
United Airlines has confirmed plans to reconfigure several of its Boeing 777 airliners to accommodate 10 seats across each row instead of nine in its economy class on domestic routes. United will retrofit 19 of its 74 Boeing 777 widebodies with the additional seating, applying the change to nine of the aircraft already used for domestic routes, mostly to and from Hawaii. The 10 other Boeing 777s that will feature the 10-across seat configuration will be shifted from the airline's long-haul international flights, according to Today in the Sky.
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All of them?
I already HATE united... here’s one more reason.
Will that put them in the record book for “most killed in a crash” if one goes down?
I have always had terrible luck with United. Had a 12 hour one-stop flight back from London turn into 47 hours and they still lost my luggage. I could probably come up with about four bad experiences on shorter flights with them.
Just have everyone stand up and hold onto a bar.
Why is this surprising? Unless airlines make standard coach seats as unbearable as possible then what incentive do you have to upgrade to the somewhat more expensive, slightly less tortuous “premium” seats?
And another thing. They already don’t have enough overhead bin space. This is just going to make it worse.
I flew on a 777 with AA 4 times coming back and forth from Japan in 2013, and they were uncomfortable, I am still amazed how I managed to knock out on the flight back to Texas one time.
As long as price is the only criteria people use to buy tickets this will continue.
I'll tolerate an hour flight in economy, that's all. Anything more and it's First Class or forget it.
I've lost track of the number of times that I hear some commotion going on back in coach because the steerage class people jammed in together on top of each other like sardines lose their composure.
I wonder if they redid the emergency exit test with the new seating?
Moooo!
this is highly discriminatory against large people.
At some point this becomes a safety issue.
Moo!
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