<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by TA:
one thing way that the seat configuration is marketed (by the aircraft manufacturer) is based on a less than full load, while you assume a 100% full load in your calculation.
I have read (i forget where), that if you assume a load like %80, the 2-5-2 configuration does very well, because you can leave the middle seat in the 5 empty, and everyone is within one seat of the aisle. </font>
Being two seats away from the aisle with the middle seat empty is no different than being one seat away from the aisle.
With a 7/9 load and a 3-3-3 configuration, you could do couple, aisle, aisle, aisle, aisle, window. This would provide an empty seat next to 4 of the people in each row.
With the 2-5-2 configuration, only 2 or 3 people have an adjacent empty seat (depends on where the couples sit).
For this reason, plus the super-middle seat, I think 2-5-2 is the worst.
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[This message has been edited by JS (edited 11-01-2003).]