Originally Posted by spin88

I am 6' 1.5" and weight 215 lbs. I am NOT a small guy. I have flown those ana seats 7-8 times, and an equal number of times in ANA J, on these (2-4-3) 77Ws. I guess I never was bothered by the issue some people had with them (the claim that they are "hard") and I like people not reclining into me. ANA has 34" pitch and the seat is wide. I have taken the ANA 777 basically back-to-back with the sUA 777 (in 3-3-3) and do not have a seat preference (I like that these seats are higher in the back, the old sUA seats have more padding, but then the guy in front reclines into you, unless you are in a bulkhead). Here btb is what the ANA seats look like:



I don't think there is any reasonable dispute that ANA's food/coffee (even with UA now doing Illy) and booze selection/quality is better than what UA serves. Absent getting a micro-brew on UA (sometimes they are gone...) everything UA offers for free is low quality, and ANA will give you hard ETOH as well, including a decent scotch.

p.s. I should add that I have not flown ANA long haul in about two years (since they put 3-4-3 on the SFO-NRT flights) but I don't think anything has materially changed re their soft-product.