Originally Posted by
seaflyguy
By the way, if you'd like an idea for how to have your cake and eat it, too, how about investigating the mesh seats that Lufthansa is
installing? If you installed them and kept the pitch where it is now, you'd get the equivalent of 34" throughout coach. If you reduced pitch behind the exit rows to the equivalent of 32" (what it is today), you could increase the pitch forward of the exit rows to the equivalent of 37". Or something like that.
You might want to head over to the LH forum to get some frequent traveler opinions of the
NEK. (To sum up: they complain about it more than people complain about AS F seats and meals.)
I might also point out that UA E- is 31"- that's where they get the space for E+- and AS's pitch matches WN's (32"), and is better than CO/DL standard pitch in a lot of their planes (30-31"). AS also isn't a particularly elite-heavy airline, so the impetus for this would likely have to be "squish the cattle".