Originally Posted by
mduell
Those carriers deploying a PE product (AA and DL) can target their J project at the revenue market and have PE for upgrades. With no PE product at UA, their J product is their upgrade product, so they need a big dense cabin if they want to market upgrades.
I was going to make this same point in response to Fly's comment, you beat me to it. Delta putting in a yet better J product (taking up real estate) is directly related to putting in PE. Expect some scheme at some point where Y upgrades to PE, and PE to J on both AA and DL.
United meanwhile will try to fill the seats with discount J and corporate tickets, and if upgrades continue to be an issue (as they are now on UA) then buying PE on DL or AA - to me at least - is a better deal.
As others (AA DL Foreign carriers) continue to roll out better product,I think this will cost United many of the top $$$ non-discounted J/F sales and will also cost it the top value Y seats, who given PE on AA/DL, etc will take that over paying the same for Y on UA and playing the upgrade game.
Originally Posted by
mduell
If the Vantage XL foot box isn't tapered, it must be narrow from the start, since the side table it's under isn't that wide.
It ends in a square, it is wider at its start. As EWR764 notes, it appears that the Polaris seat will have less of your legs in the "tube" than the Vintage XL as the screen is further from your face. However, size wise, the Polaris seat is clearly very narrow and slanted at the end on the outboard seats, and perhaps on the inboard seats.