Originally Posted by
kennycrudup
I didn't see this 'till Ep Coward quoted it, but:
Are you kidding?! Have you been back there?! I had to take UA home one day (and for me, that means E-) - now that's a bad Y seat.
I've spent more for VX Y than UA Y because of that. MCS is even better and many times not much more $ than Y.
EC is right - YMMV. For me, that hard seatback makes VX unbearable in anything lower than MCS. It's not just about pitch (and the pitch is not great) but about what I do with my legs in the seat. On UA, even in E-, my legs go into the soft seatback. On VX, they hit a hard plastic seat pocket, which is incredibly uncomfortable. It's not the worst I've experienced in the world (that would be CX, with a useless footrest that caused bleeding after 11 hours in coach), but it is really bad for a domestic carrier.