Originally Posted by NJRadioGuy

I'm flying on that route tonight and will give a trip report as time and wifi allows. I'm booked in 1D from SWF to DUB (it's an all-Y config, so every seat should presumably be the same, in theory), and while I'm not quite as tall as you, I'm probably heavier and wider. Personally I wasn't looking forward to the MAX-8, but for the ultra low sale price I paid ($266 return, back in late March) I wasn't about to complain. For comparison's sake, I've flown EWR<>SEA in coach on a 737-800 (NG) on Alaska. Despite the decent service, the thin/narrow seats were just miserable after about hour three, and that trip cost 3x what this one did! It's about as long from SEA to EWR as it will be from SWF to DUB (add more time coming back, though), so I think the comparison is valid.

They've been using EC-MII on this route, and the seat map on Evelop's site doesn't match D8's seat map, so who knows what's going on. All I can say is there's going to be an awful lot of people in that plane, and I sure wouldn't want to be the last one off, knowing there were over 400 people from your flight alone in front of you, all racing for customs and immigration, along with the rest of the trans-Atlantic fleet. This is why my original plan was to go into Shannon on the MAX. Fewer people, smaller airport, closer to my destination, etc. But again, for the price, it's more a case of grin-and-bear-it than anything else.