Originally Posted by
Zembla
What picture? There are two completely different seats depicted here. And also, due to the merge with Continental you could be referring to completely different new seats again....
I reckon you are referring to the cirrus seat? The general consensus in this forum seems to favor the skylounge seat. Which deffo seems to be more spacious (if obviosuly a bit closer to your neighbour, but still massively private compared to NEV4).
I have the impression that nothing is definitive (and certainlhy not confirmed) yet on what seat it will be. Apart from that...herringbone-setup symply doesn't feel like it would be aproporiate for AF, imho. And okay I'll admit it. I simply don't like heringbone setups as they always seem to result in narrow and claustrophobic feeling configs.
I had mis-read the post that I quoted and realized that upon re-reading. I then deleted my post.
To then be more specific: the first picture resembles the UA seat. The seat I was in less than 24 hours ago was a United, not a Continental seat. The plane had a First Class cabin (CO planes do not have that) and its registration was N20?UA, so a plane that came from the United fleet. Whilst I found the seat comfortable to sit in and lounge in, I found my feet really cramped, and what I disliked most was that row of 4 seats next to each other in the middle block of the 777. That really looked like a can of sardines
Having said that, the picture of the Cirrus seat only *resembles* the UA seat, but the big difference is that the UA seat isn't diagonal to the cabin axis. Somehow the layout of the Cirrus reminds me of the pictures I have seen of the new Lufthansa seat (which I have never seen let alone tested in real life)
Thus, me like most others also prefer the SkyLounge seat, which indeed seems to be close to the model used by Swiss and Brussels Airlines. For some reason the Swiss seat looks less depressive, could have to do with the choice of colours.
To echo what was written earlier on: if AF wants to wow us with something better than the market, why come up with a seat that already exists elsewhere?