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Old Mar 6, 2016 | 12:01 pm
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Originally Posted by Efrem
All things being close to equal, I prefer to avoid 757s. They're big for a single-aisle aircraft, so it takes forever to board/deplane* and get to the lavs: everyone wants to get there, they're all the way aft, service carts are often in the way, and the cabin crew may object to too many people hanging around waiting their turn.
If they board through 2L door (DL probably mostly does, AA usually doesn't) then the 757 is far superior if you're in F because you don't have all the coach passengers traipsing through the cabin.
And then in-flight it's better as well since coach pax never have to come up and use the F lavatory, they can use the one at the front of Y.

I'd check out the seat map on the LAX-MCO DL 757 - if it's 16 seats then it would be an internationally-configured plane with flat beds (always subject to change though), which would probably tilt the whole itinerary toward DL. But I suspect they wouldn't have those aircraft on that route normally.
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