Originally Posted by
minnyfly
Well you should care about a particular window seat, because it can greatly affect your room in the aisle. Case in point was recently when I flew AA's 3-4-3 777.
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You see, that's one reason why short-sighted decisions are easily made when an entire aircraft is written off because of a very small difference in measured room in one area that determines comfort. You can book that half inch more and easily end up with much less room.
You've done an excellent job describing what matters to you. Unfortunately for your argument, none of what you find important is remotely relevant to me.
First of all, I don't fly anyone's 3-4-3 configuration, so I will never be confronted with your problem. More importantly, when I'm flying any wide body long haul, if I'm not in C or PE, I take a aisle in the middle section. No worries about missing windows, and IME, the middle seats in the center section are the last to fill up. Even if I do get a seatmate there, that's only person that I have to get up for, not two. @:-)
You seem insistent on defining comfort in some magical manner that ignores the fact that comfort is highly subjective, not objective, as you seem to want to insist on. Why is that?
Originally Posted by
minnyfly
Doesn't matter that you don't fly them. You were saying that UA virtually stood alone among major carriers in not offering PE. That's not true, unless your definition of a major airline is wildly different than generally accepted.
When DL and AA finish fleetwide installations of PE, which major carrier that UA competes with head to head on a majority of its routes won't be offering PE?
Originally Posted by
minnyfly
Hold up one of your fingers and study it's width. It likely can even be your pinky. You just admitting that internationally you're going to give up on an entire airline for less than that amount of space. Let that sink in for a while.
I find this phrase fascinating. First of all, I haven't noticed anyone saying they are no longer going to fly UA even up front just because they've decided to cram their Y customers in back like sardines. Setting that strawman argument aside, if one wants a 19-20" wide seat long haul because they believe it is more comfortable, why are they supposed to not "give up on an entire airline" because they only offer a 17.3" wide seat? Are you suggesting that customers owe United some kind of loyalty? Or is there something about United's Y product that overcomes the crappy 3-4-3 seating arrangement we are all missing?