Originally Posted by
Pandor
AFAIK, the new seats do not take up more space. There's a reason they were designed to lie flat at 170 and not 180 degrees.
The refurbished 2-class 777-300ERs have 386 seats in y instead of the previous 400 to make space for the larger 42 Lie Flats in J. A6-ECB should have been refurbished as well.
Theeksource and Planespotters are not really always up to date on refurbishments....
First the 777-300 and the 777-200ER got refurbished, getting the SkyCruisers and the LieFlats, then the two-class 777-300ER and now finally the refurbishments for the class 300ERs has been completed.
73R and 73X should be obsolete by now in terms of aircraft codes. Only 73M&N (ULH version 3-class, 304 Y seats)
73V&W (LH version 3-class, 310 Y seats, no crew rest)
73J&H (2-class, 386 Y seats)
are left.
As for ICE some got the standard version, some the widescreen one and some the modified widescreen version. Data on that is quite inaccurate, codes do not always correspond with the actually deployed aircraft and often change a few days prior to the flight...