Re: seating comparison, whilst post-Covid I've been doing DXB quite a bit, pre-Covid it had been quite a few years. But can compare to India pre-Covid (DEL, BOM and MAA), which varied a bit. I think the issue is that CX claim 18" rather than 17.5" seats, but the armrests are so narrow everyone's elbows inevitably encroach on everyone else's space.
This one's easy
Ignore each airline's creative measurement, or even your own experience
Empirically each plane type has the same cabin width between airlines.
There's not much airlines can do if they choose to fit in the normal number of seats into each row. Even if there are different width between armrests/different width of armrests, it all just means wider aisles/narrower aisles, which still ultimately comes back to passsenger comfort (how fast the service is and how many times FA knocks your arm)
You can swear one airline's A350 9-abreast seat is more comfortable than another but certainly it won't be borne out by the numbers.
CX considering [confirmed] having 10 seats per row?
Originally Posted by
percysmith
I'm still getting a lot of differences between reported widths, so I'm going to work out seat width from cabin width directly.
Assumptions for all aircraft:
Aisles = 17in
Armrests = 1.7in and are counted even on the sides (e.g. aisles or window also count)
Distance between window seat and cabin side wall = 1.5in
So for 77W in 10-abreast, cabin width = 231in, take away two side walls, two aisles and 13 armrests = 170, divide by 10 to get 17.0in
