Originally Posted by
rogueeconomist
I'm confused by your assertion that you can only choose modes with the new UA business seats. It sounds like you thought you can only choose 'sleeping' and 'sitting' modes with nothing in between. That is not quite right, but it is true that it requires a bit of practice with the various seat buttons to get it to do what you want.
But you can definitely select, for example, just for the foot rest to move up, so you can do things like sit with your feet up, etc. Although, the back will recline a bit as well to make some room when this happens.
Anyway... short answer... UA business seats feel really flat to me. Have not had the luxury of trying competing angled-flat seats, so do not know if UA's are much better, but they are definitely better to me than the old UA business recliner seats.
I agree with you. Mini DG and I have found it very easy to adjust the C lie flat seats to suit what we are doing at the time, ie eating, feet up, slightly reclined, fully flat bed etc. To get more width on the UA C seats, you need to push in the silver (flat) sort of button at the end of each arm rest. Then apply downward pressure and these armrests go down completely, allowing you more seat width.
I LOVE the new seats compared to the old recliner. I have not noticed the difference in slant with forward facing or rear facing when lying fully flat, other than on rear facing I have managed to sleep up to 8 hrs ^. On my recent trip home, I was forward facing and slept almost 9 full hours straight (a record for me) ^ ^ . So for me, it seems forward facing works best
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I have tried SQ J seats on 747 also and I didnt like those seats nearly as much as I like UA's new seats. The SQ seats are not fully flat and are quite uncomfortable for sleeping.