Originally Posted by
jackal
I will say the leather they used on the pillowy seats of the -400s (and early -900s) seems to be a better quality leather (almost real) versus the pleather used on the -700s and -800s.
The -700s used to have the -900 style seats. A few of the early -800s delivered have the same -900 seats.
The best "leather" seats were the MD-80s. The 727s had nice cloth seats as well, but it's been so long I hardly remember those...