Originally Posted by
sbm12
Sure, but it is a BS measurement. They are measuring inside the arm rests and making the arm rests narrower to maintain that dimension. You get less space but the measurement standard is tweaked to make it work in the math.[...]The window seat will be mostly miserable thanks to the curve of the side wall, among other things.
Thanks for posting the details... as someone who prefers windows the amount of curvature by the legs at the window looks bloody awful (although at least it is still curving out higher up), and the narrower armrests to claim a wider seat seems like a sad joke as well. Seatpan width isn't an entirely useless measurement but I wish airlines would measure width by center-to-center (more like pitch) as it's what's representative of actual shoulder room.