Originally Posted by
yonatan
I don't fly regularly and may soon have my two trips on AA, one in coach and one in business. I had the following questions:
1. I'm considering paying for Main Cabin extra seats on an E190 flight I'll have. Should I select from row 5 (bulkhead) or row 12 (exit row)? What is the seat pitch in each of these rows?
On AA RJs, the right side bulkhead aisle (5D on the E190) is my favorite coach seat on the plane. With just a curtain instead of a bulkhead between you and the F seats, you have lots of legroom and also underseat stowage.
On the other hand, IMO, the left side aisle (5C) is terrible. In front of you is the aisle in F, so there's no place to put a bag even once in flight. It seems like you'd have lots of legroom, but you need to tuck your feet back every time the FA walks past. And you get bumped a lot when people walk by.