Originally Posted by
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What did they do with all the extra width from removing the seat? Isn't that basically the width of the Y seats in a 350?
While Delta's press release claims the premium-economy seat width is "up to" 19 inches, the Delta website says the seat width is 18 1/2 inches. The same website says economy-class seats are 18 inches See here:
https://www.delta.com/content/www/en...rbus-a350.html
Basically, premium-economy is the economy-class seat with a slightly nicer armrest and a footrest.
It's really too bad that Delta didn't at least use space it gained by using narrower seats to separate the four seats in the center section of premium-economy into pairs of two with a privacy divide between each pair. Siting in the middle two seats will be far from a "premium" experience, especially if you don't know your neighbors.