Originally Posted by
RGS5526
BA appear to be attracting fairly large numbers of passengers to the current CE offering, with frequent reports here of flights with around a dozen rows of CE. Would it be a worth their while to change to a fixed size CE cabin with four-across seating and a little extra leg room, say something like the current WT+ seating? Decreasing the number of rows in the space would permit a little extra legroom, and possibly increased toilet and galley space. Lack of flexibility could be compensated for (and "curtain roulette" retained) by introducing an ET+ cabin with the current CE seating arrangement and possibly complimentary beverage or even meal, service.
Such a configuration could introduce real market differentiation from LC carriers, and even other legacy carriers within Europe.
And think of the opportunities for OP UPs.
Whilst it would be great for comfort it is just not flexible enough for European carriers in the LLC era.
As an example, my travels over the last few weeks between Belfast and London have seen varying sizes of CE cabins from 3-5 rows at different times. This week I could not get a seat and the CE cabins are 8-12 rows (due to The Open Championship golf).
If there was a fixed cabin size, BA will be throwing away money because they cannot reduce the size of CE in favour of selling more ET seats. The inverse is also true when they can increase the size of CE by simply moving a divider.
Anyway that is digressing. I find the NEO’s to be fine. The slimline Recaro seats are acceptable for comfort when compared with the Pinnacle. I have to slightly recline the Pinnacle to get comfortable, this has not been the case when I sat in the Recaro SL3510 (on more than one airline) which I find comfortable in its ‘pre-reclined’ position.