Originally Posted by
Mutu
And if you are enjoying CX or JL or QF or even new AA which I accept have a nice herringbone layout (or heaven forbid the gypsy caravan that is EK) then spare a thought for the BA product - without which we may all still be sitting in cradle seats!!
Hang on a second!
CX long haul J seats are all pretty well-accessible and solid products.
However, most JL non-aisle J seats are not easily accessible. The only JL ones that provide non-stepover access are the Sky Suite ones, although more and more aircraft is being fitted with them. The standard ones have a high degree of incline and still difficult to get out of despite it.
QF non-aisle J seats are definitely not easily accessible either - in fact they are only made semi-accessible by the slope or droop.
I have to get an aisle seat on QF and JL (non-Sky Suite) because I get trapped in non-aisle seat, because of the seat layout making it much harder to get out of a non-aisle seat than from a BA CW window seat.
So... if they are the "improved" seats triggered by BA CW seats, damn the BA CW seats!! (Said in jest, I think BA CW seats are better than QF J/most JL J seats in terms of the lack of slope/droop and accessibility).