Originally Posted by
corporate-wage-slave
You're not the first to raise this point, and I suppose there is an issue about proximity and directly facing the other passenger, but I do wonder how some people manage on trains, tubes or buses. One huge advantage of BA's set up is for almost all the flight you can just send the screen upwards, which isn't an option on most traditional side-by-side seating.
When in UK my work train journey is 40mins with a fare of £17 in the peak. If you are comparing this to a 6 hour plus journey in CW costing thousands then I would say it's possibly not the most realistic comparison in the annals of FT.
Other airlines seem to manage with a simple screen between seats and you don't have to do the hokey cokey with the screen every time service comes.
To be fair though the ying/yang was ground breaking when it arrived 15 years ago, its just that in the meantime it has been overtaken by almost every other LH airline....