Thanks for your reply😊. For the stretch seats, agree it's physically the same seat but it has increased legroom which makes a big difference with your inflight experience.

Good point about looking up the seat pitch.... Even I, a seasoned traveler, would not have thought to look that up of it weren't for your suggestion.

But for the general public, these seats should be differentiated from the rest of regular economy because of the increased legroom... Like United and most of the major carriers.. United has economy Plus, (not premium economy), which are the same exact seat as regular economy but with increased legroom.

Either way thanks for pointing out that most likely it's going it be a skycouch row 😍😍😍

The ticket prices have shot up dramatically since we bought our tickets a few months back ($600 increase per ticket for the same flights) Not guaranteed but I'm hoping that we'd end up with am empty middle seat.. Especially United now has the same SFO to AKL flight by the time we fly in November.. Same 777-300 that just leaves an hour later. So far that flight is wide open and not fully booked at all.

Either.. We'll see how it goes. I agree not to stress about it.. Sorry that's my nature.. I worry about everything 🤣🤣🤣

My biggest worry at this point is that we'll have horrible wet weather by the time we arrive there mid November.. Oh well. 🤣😭